FRANCES D'EMILIO
Associated Press
ROME (AP) — The United Nations says the ranks of the world's hungry grew by 10 million last year and warns that the coronavirus pandemic could push as many as 130 million more people into chronic hunger this year.
The grim assessment was contained in the latest edition of the State of Food Security and Nutrition in the World, an annual report released Monday by the five U.N. agencies that produced it.
Preliminary projections based on available global economic outlooks suggest the pandemic "may add an additional 83 (million) to 132 million people to the ranks of the undernourished in 2020," the report said.
Also compounding the situation is what the report's authors described as "unprecedented Desert Locust outbreaks" in Eastern Africa.
The U.N. ag
