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UN Secretary-General Ant¨®nio Guterres and UN Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata have warned that the COVID-19 epidemic could trigger a ¡°global food emergency¡± that could see a doubling of the number of hungry people around the world. Guterres and Kalibata were speaking at the launch of a UN policy brief on the impact of COVID-19 on food security and nutrition.

¡°Countries face an agonizing trade-off between saving lives or livelihoods or, in a worst-case scenario, saving people from COVID-19 to have them die from hunger.¡± -- UN Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata

Download the policy brief , or read the full covering the launch.