In a grim warning, the World Food Programme (WFP) – which was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize 2020 – has said that 2021 will be worse than 2020.
David Beasley, the head of United Nations’ agency WFP, sent out an important message to world leaders during an interview with Associated Press, saying that without billions of dollars, there will be famines of biblical proportions in 2021. Reported india.com.
“It (Nobel prize) was so timely because we’ve been fighting to get above the choir,” Beasley said, referring to the news being dominated by US presidential polls and coronavirus pandemic.
Beasley, who had warned the UN Security Council about a hunger pandemic in April, reiterated that the world was on the verge of such a catastrophe which could lead to “multiple famines of biblical proportions”.
“We were able to avert it in 2020… because the world leaders responded with money, stimulus packages, deferral of debt”, he said, cautioning countries of another series of lockdowns and shutdowns following a substantial rise in COVID-19 cases and deterioration in economies, especially in low and middle-income countries.
