Billionaires urged to fight hunger

The World Food Programme ( WFP) chief has called on billionaires to help fight global hunger as he warned that millions of people are closer to starvation because of a deadly combination of conflict, climate change and the Covid- 19 pandemic.

David Beasley told the UN Security Council the response to his warning five months ago of a potential “hunger pandemic” had averted famine and kept people alive, but the work was not over yet.

The WFP and its partners are going all out to reach as many as 138 million people this year – “the biggest scale-up in our history ”, Mr Beasley said.