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

David Laborde Debucquet, Will Martin and Robert Vos

Chapter 2 in COVID-19 and global food security, 2020, pp 16-19 from International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: models; covid-19; economic crises; developed countries; nutrition; computable general equilibrium models; disease prevention; developing countries; food security; poverty; economic recession (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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