Sophie van de Kimmenade via the Guardian: "Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond?"

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THE GUARDIAN

Famine: what is it, where will it strike and how should the world respond? ...

By Sophie van de Kimmenade - July 11, 2022

A toxic combination of climate emergency, conflict and Covid is pushing some of the poorest countries into an acute hunger crisis. “We thought it couldn’t get any worse,” said David Beasley, director of the UN World Food Programme (WFP), in June. “But this war has been devastating.”