Myanmar’s food crisis

Stephen Anderson, Myanmar country director for the World Food Program, tells host Marco Werman about how families are struggling to put even the most basic food on the table amid job losses, rising food and fuel prices, violence, displacement and a new wave of COVID-19 infections. He says, “We have seen hunger spreading further and deeper in Myanmar. Nearly 90 per cent of households living in slum-like settlements around Yangon say they have to borrow money to buy food.”

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