Paris, April 1
The heads of three global agencies warned today of the risk of a worldwide ‘food shortage’ if authorities fail to manage the ongoing coronavirus crisis properly.
Many governments around the world have put their populations on lockdown causing severe slowdowns in international trade and food supply chains. Panic buying by people going into confinement has already demonstrated the fragility of supply chains.
“Uncertainty about food availability can spark a wave of export restrictions, creating a shortage on the global market,” said the joint text signed by Qu Dongyu, head of UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO), Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of World Health Organisation (WHO) and Roberto Azevedo, director of World Trade Org
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