Soaring Prices, Rotting Crops: Coronavirus Triggers Global Food Crisis

The coronavirus pandemic hit the planet at a time of plentiful harvests and ample foods reserves. However a cascade of protectionist restrictions, transportation disruptions and processing breakdowns has dislocated the worldwide foods offer and place the planet’s most susceptible areas in individual peril.

“You can have a foods crisis with heaps of foods. That is the problem we’re in,” mentioned Abdolreza Abbassian, a senior economist at the Food items and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, or FAO.

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