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Are We Entering a New Phase of Increasing Hunger? -Bharat Dogra

-TheWire.in

Warnings sound by the UN and its organs point to a food crisis which is worse than any seen in the last 50 years.

On June 9, the United Nations warned that the world today faces a food crisis which is worse than any seen in the last 50 years. Secretary general Antonio Guterres said that nearly 50 million people risk falling into extreme poverty due to the pandemic. More specifically he said, “Unless immediate action is taken, it is increasingly clear that there is an impending global food emergency that can have long-term impacts on hundreds of millions of children and adults…We need to act now to avoid the worst impacts of our efforts to confine the pandemic.”

Earlier, while addressing the UN Security Council, the executive director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP) David Beasley said, “There is a real danger that more people could potentially die from the economic impact of COVID-19 than from the virus itself.”

This senior-most official of the world’s biggest humanitarian program said, “At the same time as dealing with a COVID-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic.”

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