Officials of the World Food Program: The epidemic may cause nearly 100 million people worldwide to fall into extreme poverty

　　China News Service, Zhumadian, September 6 (Reporter Liu Peng) Maha Ahmed, deputy representative of the United Nations World Food Program in China, said on the 6th that affected by the global new crown pneumonia epidemic, it is expected that there will be 70 million to 1 Hundreds of millions of people fall into extreme poverty.

At present, the World Food Program is actively mobilizing resources to meet the food needs of more than 100 million people.

　　On the 6th, the 23rd China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair opened in Zhumadian, Henan Province, a major agricultural province in China.

Maha Ahmad spoke at the opening ceremony of the impact of the new crown epidemic on food security. “The epidemic has caused the global economy to shrink at the fastest rate since the 1930s. It is estimated that there will be between 70 million and 1% this year. Hundreds of millions of people fall into extreme poverty."

　　Maha Ahmed said that according to WFP estimates, in 79 countries where it has offices, the number of people facing severe food insecurity may increase by 80%, from 149 million people before the epidemic to 2020. With 270 million people at the end of the year, every low-income or middle-income country will face threats.

　　"Solving the growing problem of hunger requires the World Food Program to make the largest humanitarian response in history to meet the food needs of more than 100 million people." Maha Ahmed said that the World Food Program is actively mobilizing resources. With a view to helping and enhancing the resistance of vulnerable groups through intervention measures such as social security, improving nutrition services and supporting the food system.

　　In Maha Ahmad's view, the World Food Programme and China share common goals in reducing food insecurity and poverty.

"Developing countries are facing challenges in economic and social systems, including feeding a growing population, reducing poverty, and coping with the impact of climate change. Therefore, ensuring food security and poverty reduction needs to be achieved with the help of corresponding skills and technologies. sustainable development."

　　The China Agricultural Products Processing Industry Investment and Trade Fair, sponsored by the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of China and the People's Government of Henan Province, has gone through 23 years since its inception in 1998 and has become an international conference with a benchmark in the field of agricultural products processing in China.

According to the official announcement on the 6th, this CIFIT has attracted more than 4,000 companies from all over the world, and more than 30,000 businessmen and professional visitors will participate.

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