‘Knocking on famine’s door’: UN food chief wants action now


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World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley at the WFP headquarters in Rome on Nov. 2, 2021.Domenico Stinellis/The Associated Press The U.N. food chief warned Thursday that the world is facing “a perfect storm on top of a perfect storm” and urged donors, particularly Gulf nations and billionaires, to give a few days of profits to tackle a crisis with the fertilizer supply right now and prevent widespread food shortages next year. “Otherwise, there’s gonna be chaos all over the world,” World Food Program Executive Director David Beasley said in an Associated Press interview. Beasley said that when he took...