COVID-19 Impact: The seeds of a Future Hunger Pandemic

Action Against Hunger is concerned about an increase in hunger worldwide. This threat is caused by the pandemic and its consequences, affecting people living in countries where systems are already weakened by conflicts, climate hazards, and chronic poverty.

This report aims to identify and illustrate our field interventions and study the impacts of COVID-19 in different and urgent contexts. It does not represent as such a full picture of the hunger situation in different countries but aims to highlight key impacts, trends, and issues that need to be addressed to avoid a major hunger crisis. The information was gathered from a survey sent to all programmes in May and June 2020 in which questions on impacts of the pandemic on health systems / food systems and humanitarian access have been asked. Due to the evolving situation, country-specific examples showcased in this report may have changed since. Difficulties arose in the collection of answers due to the emergency itself; still those information represents what Action Against Hunger programs have witnessed at a certain time and in 25 countries.