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Published Feb. 23. Updated Feb. 23 at 6:05 pm
Vadym Ivchenko is a member of the Verkhovna Rada, Ukraine's parliament. He was first elected in 2014.
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the world drastically. On the one hand, the immediate targets of reducing the sky-rocketing rates of infection, increasing the capacity of intensive care and vaccination programmes require the urgent attention of all nations. On the other hand, state leaders must also review their supply policies, in particular global delivery chains to keep essential goods and services flowing, writes Vadym Ivchenko.
Worldwide Food Insecurity
People have been always in need of food and basic resources to survive even before the spread of this pandemic. Last April, the United Nations projected that the number of people facing severe food insecurity worldwide could double to 265 million due to the impact of COVID-19. We are now faced with the herculean task of rescuing as many of them as humanly possible from starvation.