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Poverty and food insecurity could grow dramatically as COVID-19 spreads

With COVID-19 and its economic fallout now spreading in the poorest parts of the world, many more people will become poor and food-insecure. In a new scenario analysis, we estimate that globally, absent interventions, over 140 million people could fall into extreme poverty (measured against the $1.9...

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Main Authors: Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Vos, Rob
Format: Book Chapter
Language:Inglés
Published: International Food Policy Research Institute 2020
Subjects:
models
covid-19
economic crises
developed countries
nutrition
computable general equilibrium models
disease prevention
developing countries
food security
poverty
economic recession
Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143167
Summary:With COVID-19 and its economic fallout now spreading in the poorest parts of the world, many more people will become poor and food-insecure. In a new scenario analysis, we estimate that globally, absent interventions, over 140 million people could fall into extreme poverty (measured against the $1.90 poverty line) in 2020 — an increase of 20% from present levels. This in turn would drive up food insecurity. A global health crisis could thus cause a major food crisis — unless steps are taken to provide unprecedented economic emergency relief.

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