Hunger in the COVID-19 Pandemic Era

Hunger has both surreptitiously and perspicuously ravaged the human population worldwide. The ingestion of adequate and nutritious food is the essential ingredient for growth and development as well as the major panacea to curb hunger and strife. COVID-19 has ushered in a unique dimension whereby private and public institutions advocate sustainable trajectories by making appropriate choices designed to encourage empowerment and justice to overcome hunger worldwide. Prior to the advent of COVID-19, sustainable policies advocated expansive conceptual fields involving the individual, nuclear and extended family, governance and administration as well as Society at large because hunger has incessantly been widespread and detrimental to human welfare and well-being. Persons who are always hungry are the extremely poor and vulnerable populations with perspicuous chronic hunger. In order to circumvent the devastating effects of hunger, it is pertinent to demonstrate behavioural changes, develop and enhance literacy and sustainable skills.

Keywords: food security, malnutrition, morbidity, mortality, infections, environment, economy