{"id":2362262,"date":"2020-05-12T09:30:36","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T13:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/?p=2362262"},"modified":"2023-01-05T10:23:42","modified_gmt":"2023-01-05T15:23:42","slug":"famine-covid-19-locust-invasion-2362262-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futurity.org\/famine-covid-19-locust-invasion-2362262-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts: It’s time to avert ‘biblical’ famines"},"content":{"rendered":"
COVID-19, combined with the effects of ongoing civil conflicts, hotter and drier weather in many areas, and an unfolding locust invasion in Africa and the Middle East, could cut off access to food for tens of millions of people.<\/p>\n
The world is “on the brink of a hunger pandemic,” according to World Food Program executive director David Beasley, who recently warned the United Nations Security Council of the urgent need for action to avert “multiple famines of biblical proportions.”<\/p>\n
“Hopefully, the experiences of 2020 will help strengthen support for a society based on facts, science, and compassion.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Understanding how these conditions\u2014alone or in combination\u2014might affect crop harvests and food supply chains<\/a> is essential to finding solutions, according to David Lobell<\/a>, director of the center on food security and the environment at Stanford University.<\/p>\n
Below, Lobell discusses the connection between immigration<\/a> and US food security<\/a>, a counter-intuitive effect of COVID-19, and more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
COVID-19, combined with the effects of ongoing civil conflicts, hotter and drier weather in many […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":521,"featured_media":2362432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,13,14],"tags":[320,185622,469332,4381,12172],"class_list":["post-2362262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-earth-environment","category-featured","category-health-medicine","tag-agriculture","tag-covid-19","tag-famines","tag-food","tag-locusts","post_format-post-format-quote","university-stanford-university"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
Experts: It's time to avert 'biblical' famines - 糖心视频<\/title>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n