Hungry for change: Faulty food systems laid bare by COVID-19 and climate crises

The Los Angeles Regional Food Bank distributes food outside a church during the outbreak of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Los Angeles, California, U.S., November 19, 2020. Mike Blake/Reuters

Hungry for change: Faulty food systems laid bare by COVID-19 and climate crises

7 January 2021

This story by Thomas Reuters Foundation reiterates the faults in our world's food systems, and explores how climate change and COVID-19 have disrupted the world's food production and tipped millions more people from every corner of the world into hunger in 2020.

The double whammy of extreme weather and COVID-19 has brought the shortcomings of our global food system into sharp relief." -- UN Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata

However, many expert and leading voices highlight that there are real opportunites for change, and that solutions already exist to make food systems sustainable and environmentally friendly.

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