Targeting and Prioritization of Impoverished and Food-Insecure Populations Affected by COVID-19: Safeguarding and Scaling up Assistance for People most at Risk
Targeting and Prioritization of Impoverished and Food-Insecure Populations Affected by COVID-19: Safeguarding and Scaling up Assistance for People most at Risk
Imprint
Rome (Italy): World Food Programme (WFP), 2020.
Language Note
English
Summary
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.
