Covid-19 could push up to 132-million into chronic hunger by the end of 2020
‘The pandemic is creating a problem not of food availability, but of food access, because people will have less income because of the recession’
14 July 2020 - 13:20
London — Hunger and malnourishment are increasing around the world as the coronavirus crisis pushes more people into poverty and limits access to healthy diets, according to the UN.
Almost 690-million people were undernourished in 2019, the most since 2009, and the pandemic could tip as many as 132-million people into chronic hunger by the end of 2020, the UN said in a report. At the same time, obesity has been on the rise as healthy foods remain out of reach for billions of people, a problem that will be compounded by the economic fallout from the virus...
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