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Food Crisis Grows Amid Coronavirus Pandemic

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The United Nations World Food Programme estimates are that acutely food insecure people doubled from 135 million before the pandemic to 270 million. Mr. Husain of the WFP says the world has not seen such a shock to food supplies and food demand on a global scale in the past century.The head of the food division at Unilever, Hanneke Faber, says about a billion people may be going hungry today after the loss of purchasing power and jobs during the pandemic. Many children depend on school lunch programs for their main meal and not going to school could mean about 370 million children may be losing this meal says UNICEF former executive director Ann Veneman.



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