Conflicts, Climate Change, COVID-19: Global Famine Threat Increased

The World Food Program is short of resources to alleviate hunger. Conflicts, climate change and now COVID-19 are the three C’s driving 270 million people to famine in the most impoverished countries in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Central and Latin America. Areas where bombed roads prevent trucks carrying flour, rice, lentils, peas, cooking oil and salt from getting through. “The hunger situation right now in Yemen has hit a new peak,” said Annabel Symington, head of communications for the WFP in Yemen. Famine occurs when malnutrition is so widespread that people are literally starving from lack of access to nutritious regular food.