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UN World Food Program warns 2021 is going to be worse than 2020

The head of the World Food Program says the Nobel Peace Prize has given the UN agency a spotlight and megaphone to warn world leaders that next year is going to be worse than this year

Covid-19 may cause hunger, famine, $8.5 trn loss in global output: UN chief

Guterres told the high-level meeting that the UN is asking for immediate, collective action in six critically important areas to deal with the crisis

Covid-19 lockdown: Who will prevent a hunger pandemic?

Both hunger and poverty are likely to increase acutely and may become chronic in the months to come

Rising food insecurity: Tackling hunger during the coronavirus crisis

Food insecurity is on the rise as subsidised food distributed via govt-run ration shops is not easily available to everyone

Developing nations should increase carbon footprint to tackle hunger: Study

The study also found that a food's country of origin can have huge consequences for its climate impact

The semantics of starvation

For their lives, spent in a state of chronic hunger and deprivation, are a more telling indictment of India's porous social security net

Implementing multiple schemes to address hunger: Govt

It adds that government allocates foodgrains at highly subsidised prices under the National Food Security Act