Targeting and Prioritization of Impoverished and Food-Insecure Populations Affected by COVID-19: Safeguarding and Scaling up Assistance for People most at Risk

Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2020.

English

The outbreak of COVID-19 comes with unpredictable primary and secondary impacts on vulnerable and food-insecure populations across the world. Mortality and morbidity appear to be most acute for elderly people, and those with underlying health conditions. At the same time, the widely anticipated economic downturn could have a more devastating effect on the world’s poor than the virus itself.

ELR 2584

MON-129481