It is estimated that more than half of South Africa’s 58 million people will require food assistance as a result of COVID-19. Hunger relief at this scale is unprecedented. In the midst of military-enforced lockdowns, FoodForward South Africa has mobilized its countrywide food bank network to increase service capacity in both urban and rural areas….

At the end of May, the U.N.’s World Food Programme announced that about 14 million people in Latin America and the Caribbean could experience severe food insecurity this year due to COVID-19. The region’s economy is expected to contract by 5.3 percent. Pre-COVID, many countries suffered from significant unemployment and poverty rates; amid COVID, unemployment…