WFP chief warns of ‘hunger pandemic’ ( from WFP)

https://insight.wfp.org/wfp-chief-warns-of-hunger-pandemic-as-global-foo...

by Peyvand Khorsandi

• addition to the threat posed by COVID-19, the world faces “multiple famines of biblical proportions” that could result in 300,000 deaths per day — a “hunger pandemic”
• “an additional 130 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by the end of 2020. That’s a total of 265 million people.”
• “If we can’t reach these people with the life-saving assistance they need, our analysis shows that 300,000 people could starve to death every single day over a three-month period.”
• “Nearly 370 million children are missing out on nutritious school meals — you can only imagine when children don’t get the nutrition they need their immunity goes down.”