Tag: Food insecurity
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How Climate Change Is Worsening Food Insecurity
COVID-19 is “a harbinger” of what the climate crisis will bring. [quotes quotes_style=”bpull” quotes_pos=”center”](The virus) hits us in a matter of days and months. Hopefully, it’ll be over in a year or two, if everything goes well with the vaccine – but the climate change problem is going to linger for much, much longer[/quotes] -Prof…
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Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city
The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as far more than a health crisis for the world’s poor and marginalised, exposing faultlines in food systems around the world. The UN’s World Food Programme warned in early July that 270 million people will face food insecurity before the end of 2020. Our ongoing research in Mongla, a small coastal city of 106,000…