“We were able to avert it in 2020 ... because the world leaders responded with money, stimulus packages, deferral of debt,” he said. “I’m telling them you’re not going to have enough money to fund all the projects you historically fund,” he said. “If I could get that coupled with our normal money, then we avert famine around the world” and minimize destabilization as well as migration. “There’s about three dozen countries that could possibly enter the famine conditions if we don’t have the money we need,” Beasley said. But the WFP executive director said there’s already been $17 billion of economic stimulus this year “and we're not going to have that globally."

Source: ABC News November 14, 2020 20:39 UTC