The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing pandemic of 2019. Now more than 120 million cases have been confirmed, with more than 2.67 million deaths attributed to COVID-19, making it one of the deadliest pandemics in history.
The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted agricultural and food systems worldwide. COVID-19 hit at a time when hunger or undernourishment was once again on the rise in the world, with an estimated 690 million people already going hungry in 2019. Based on the latest UN estimates, the economic recession triggered by the pandemic may lead to another 83 million people, and possibly as many as 132 million, going hungry in 2020.
This is mainly due to a lack of access to food – linked to falling incomes, lost remittances and, in some cases, a rise in food prices. In countries that already suffer from high levels of acute food insecurity, it is no longer an issue of access to food alone, but increasingly also one of food production. The pandemic, alongside lockdowns and travel restrictions, has prevented movement of aid and greatly impacted food production. As a result, several famines are forecast, which called a crisis “hunger pandemic. It is estimated that without intervention 30 million people may die of hunger, with Oxfam reporting that “12,000 people per day could die from COVID-19 linked hunger” by the end of 2020.
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