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Instead of Coronavirus, the Hunger Will Kill Us. A Global Food Crisis Looms.
Key Excerpts from Article on Website of New York Times
Posted: May 3rd, 2020
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/22/world/africa/coronavirus-...
The coronavirus pandemic has brought hunger to millions of people around the world. National lockdowns and social distancing measures are drying up work and incomes, and are likely to disrupt agricultural production and supply routes leaving millions to worry how they will get enough to eat. Already, 135 million people had been facing acute food shortages, but now with the pandemic, 130 million more could go hungry in 2020, said Arif Husain, chief economist at the World Food Program, a United Nations agency. Altogether, an estimated 265 million people could be pushed to the brink of starvation by years end. Weve never seen anything like this before, Mr. Husain said. It wasnt a pretty picture to begin with, but this makes it truly unprecedented and uncharted territory. This hunger crisis, experts say, is global and caused by a multitude of factors linked to the coronavirus pandemic and the ensuing interruption of the economic order: the sudden loss in income for countless millions who were already living hand-to-mouth; the collapse in oil prices; widespread shortages of hard currency from tourism drying up; overseas workers not having earnings to send home; and ongoing problems like climate change, violence ... and humanitarian disasters. The curfews and restrictions on movement are already devastating the meager incomes of displaced people. The effects of the restrictions may cause more suffering than the disease itself, said Kurt Tjossem ... at the International Rescue Committee.
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