food system

COVID-19 is deepening the hunger crisis in the world’s hunger hotspots and creating new epicentres of hunger across the globe. While governments must act to contain the spread of this deadly disease, Oxfam is also calling for urgent action to end this hunger crisis and build fairer, more robust, and sustainable food systems.

In our deeply unequal world, millions of people are living in, and dying from, hunger every year. Coronavirus has added fuel to the fire of this growing hunger crisis. If we don't act now, up to 12,000 people per day could die from hunger linked to the social and economic impacts of the pandemic before the end of the year. Your help is urgently needed.

Food workers throughout global supply chains are on the frontline of the coronavirus. The epidemic adds another crisis onto the almost permanent state of economic crisis in their lives. Now more than ever supermarkets and their suppliers must protect the rights of all the workers and producers who are risking their lives to keep food on our tables.