Food

Famines appear to be a relic of a time when people were so reliant on agriculture that even a single bad harvest or minor conflict could cause widespread malnutrition and hunger in entire towns. Clearly, we've come a long way in that regard over the past few centuries, thanks to better food production techniques and access to better healthcare.

We are today experiencing the worst worldwide famine since the Second World War, which has sadly undone all the hard-won victories against world hunger. In more than 46 nations around the world that year, more than 85 million people needed food aid, notably in conflict-ridden areas like Sudan, Yemen, Somalia, Nigeria, and Afghanistan.

More concerning, the epidemic has made the issue exponentially worse; according to reports, up to 20 million people may have been forced into terrible starvation as a result of the virus. According to a research by Oxfam, approximately 11 people worldwide currently die of hunger every minute, which may possibly exceed the rate of global deaths from COVID.