QU Dongyu Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

Fighting two pandemics hand in hand in Asia and the Pacific

Global hunger has been on a regrettable rise in recent years, and despite Asia’s economic clout, the continent – home to more than half of the world’s undernourished – has not been spared. Now COVID-19 is leading to a slowdown of regional economic growth and further threatening food security.