There will be a famine on a biblical scale in the world – UN – Ukraine Economic News



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The coronavirus pandemic has already begun to have a global impact on the global economy. Populations in more than 30 developing countries may be starving.

World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley, in an interview with The Guardian, emphasized that 1 million people are already on the brink of starvation.

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We are not talking about people who go to bed hungry. We are talking about extremely difficult conditions, an emergency: people are literally wandering into hunger. If we don’t get food for people, they will die,
Beasley said.

He added that according to forecasts, 2020 will be the worst since World War II

Beasley called the current situation an “ideal storm” and “unknown territory” and said he had to wait “for a famine of Biblical proportions.” However, David Beasley assured us that mass casualties can be avoided if we take action now.

How to save people

It is currently impossible to predict the situation even for a four-week perspective.

To save the people you need:

  • allocate money for humanitarian aid;
  • not ban food exports to maintain the food supply chain;
  • to ensure the delivery of humanitarian workers to disaster areas, in particular by creating airlifts, in the context of large-scale border overlap

We need money and access (24-channel emergency areas), not just one thing, but both
He explained.

According to Beasley, it will take months to overcome the crisis, so it will be necessary to continue providing assistance to those in need.

What is known about the coronavirus pandemic:

  • The global crisis and the coronavirus pandemic will increase the number of hungry people.
  • The UN estimates that there will be 130 million more, almost double. In total, those people could be 265 million.
  • Low and middle income people are the most affected by hunger.
  • The UN estimates that more than 820 million people are starving worldwide. In East Africa alone, 15 million people suffer from hunger.
  • The United Nations currently provides emergency humanitarian assistance to 87 million people in more than 80 countries.

On the 1998, 2008 and 2014 crises in Ukraine and what unemployment and the dollar exchange rate were: read the material on channel 24.



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