A food crisis is worsening around the world as the coronavirus pandemic drags on.
The pandemic has doubled the number of people who are acutely food insecure, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the United Nations World Food Programme, from 135 million people in 2019 to 270 million. Food aid will be at a record, he said, hopefully reaching some 138 million people globally with food and cash assistance, topping a previous peak after the Iraq war.
“We have hunger going up, we have poverty going up, we have unemployment going up, we have incomes going down, and we have prices going up,” Mr. Husain said at The Wall Street Journal’s Global Food Forum on Monday. “All of this put together means that lots and lots of people in this world can no longer afford a decent meal.”
Mr. Husain said the world hasn’t seen such a shock to both food supplies and food demand on a global scale in the past century. The pandemic arrived at a time of bountiful harvests and ample food supplies, but trade disruptions and breakdowns in processing and transportation have left
Why did we trust CDC and Fauci? No Lock Down! No Masks! No Pandemic! 'When all this is over, we may well find that the biggest international variable isn’t the number of preventable deaths. It is the damage to the living.'
The lockdowns cause hunger and not the coronavirus.
Employees who handle SNAP applications in Fairfax County Virginia have made mistakes from January to October processing applications for citizens who qualify. Causing disabled citizens to go months without SNAP benefits they qualify for. Having to prove and reprove qualification
Appears the Trump admin is now the biggest spreader of COVID-19, even with all the best medical treatment available (most of which they have not made available to Americans), and yet Trump Republicans STILL have no national plan. VOTE for your life!
The *pandemic* has ... ... or OUR REACTION has ... Are the numbers we *fear* even meaningful? Beware the Hegelian Dialectic.
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