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World Food Programme head warns Covid-19 pandemic could provoke ‘famines of biblical proportions’

By France24
11 May 2020   |   2:27 pm
The UN's World Food Programme (WFP) is warning of potential famines of "biblical proportions" as the Covid-19 pandemic affects countries in an already dire situation. In an interview with FRANCE 24, the United Nation's WFP Executive Director David Beasley said he was especially worried about a breakdown in the supply chain that allows his agency to provide food to dozens of millions of people around the globe.

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