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UN urges Ukraine grain release, warn of ‘mass hunger’ that could last for years
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20 May 2022
WASHINGTON, 20 May 2022, (TON): The UN warned “a growing global food crisis could last years if it goes unchecked, as the World Bank announced an additional $12 billion in funding to mitigate its devastating effects.”
Food insecurity is soaring due to warming temperatures, the coronavirus pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, which has led to critical shortages of grains and fertilizer.
At a major United Nations meeting in New York on global food security, Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said “the war threatens to tip tens of millions of people over the edge into food insecurity.”
He said “what could follow would be “malnutrition, mass hunger and famine, in a crisis that could last for years.”
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