coronavirus pandemic destroys jobs and pushes food prices higher.The report issued Wednesday by four agencies says the pandemic is making it difficult for 1.9 billion people to afford healthy diets.
It follows an earlier report that forecast that in a worst case scenario that 828 million people might suffer from acute hunger because of the crisis.
World Food Program wins Nobel Peace Prize as hunger soars amid pandemic The latest estimate is that nearly 688 million people globally are undernourished, more than half of them in Asia.
The largest share is in South Asian countries like Afghanistan, where four in 10 people are malnourished.The report is mostly based on data up to 2019, before the pandemic struck.