UN warns that global food crisis will be ongoing without immediate action

UN Secretary-General António Guterres says that the COVID-19 pandemic and the Ukraine war has fueled unprecedented world hunger, and the number of food-insecure people have doubled in just two years to over 276 million worldwide. Host Marco Werman speaks to Eric Munoz, a senior policy adviser with Oxfam America.

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