WFP head warns Covid-19 pandemic could provoke ‘famines of biblical proportions’

The UN’s World Food Programme 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.