UN food chief: funding and access can avert starvation

The head of the World Food Program says he has been on the phone with leaders of some of the world’s richest nations with a critical message: the coronavirus pandemic is not only affecting your economy but is impacting the economies of vulnerable and conflict-torn countries where millions of people will face starvation if you cut the U.N. agency’s funding for food. David Beasley said in an interview with The Associated Press he has also been telling leaders that maintaining supply chains is critical and there are many potential obstacles — export restrictions, closed borders and ports, farms not producing and roads closed. “If we have money and access we can avert famine and we can truly avert catastrophic humanitarian death from starvation,” Beasley said.

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