2021 will be worse than 2020, warns Nobel UN food agency
WFP Predicts Hunger Pandemic: Next year is going to be worse than 2020, warned the head of the World Food Program (WFP). The WFP was awarded Nobel Peace Prize 2020.
In an interview with The Associated Press, David Beasley, the head of the World Food Program stated that the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 has given the UN agency a megaphone to warn the world leaders about 2021.
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David Beasley said that without billions of dollars "we are going to have famines of biblical proportions in 2021."
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"It was so timely because we've been fighting to get above the choir," Beasley said of last month's award, pointing to the news being dominated by the US polls and the outbreak of coronavirus pandemic, and the difficulty of getting global attention focused on "the travesty that we're facing around the world."
Beasley also discussed his warning to the UNSC in April regarding the hunger pandemic. He had said that the world was on the verge of a hunger pandemic that may lead to 'multiple famines of biblical proportions'.
"We were able to avert it in 2020 ... because the world leaders responded with money, stimulus packages and deferral of debt," he added.
Beasley further cautioned countries of another wave of lockdowns and shutdowns following the spike in COVID-19 cases and deterioration in economies, especially in low and middle-income countries.
--PTC News
