Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city

Coronavirus: how lockdown exposed food insecurity in a small Bangladeshi city

The food market in Mongla in October 2019: it was shut during the COVID-19 lockdown. Credit: Hanna Ruszczyk, Author provided The COVID-19 pandemic has emerged as far more than a health crisis for the world’s poor and marginalised , exposing faultlines in food systems around the world . The UN’s World Food Programme warned in early July that 270 million people will face food insecurity before the end of 2020.

Our ongoing research in Mongla, a small coastal city of 106,000 people in southwestern Bangladesh, is exposing just how vulnerable many people are to food insecurity. If a family spent […]

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