Hungry for change: Faulty for systems laid bare by COVID-19 and climate crises
THIN LEI WIN and CORMAC O’BRIEN FROM wildfires in California and locust attacks in Ethiopia to job losses caused by pandemic lockdowns in Italy and Myanmar, climate change and COVID-19 disrupted food production and tipped millions more people into hunger in 2020. Now there are fears the situation could worsen next year as both the coronavirus crisis and wild weather exacerbate fragile conditions linked to conflicts and poverty in many parts of the globe, aid officials told the Thomson Reuters Foundation. "Even before COVID-19 hit, 135 million people were marching towards the brink of starvation. This could double to 270…