Pandemic could mean 260 million people worldwide ‘marching toward starvation’

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Pandemic could mean 260 million people worldwide ‘marching toward starvation’

The United Nations World Food Program warned this week that as a result of the novel coronavirus pandemic, the number of people facing food crisis could double — to 260 million worldwide. David Beasley, the organization’s executive director, joins Judy Woodruff to discuss how the developing world, already suffering due to climate change and conflict, is faring amid this new disaster of COVID-19.

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