As hunger rises amidst pandemic, Canada can and should make an impact

A well-fed world means improved health, more socio-economic growth, and hope for a better global future.

International Development Minister Karina Gould is pictured on June 1, 2020. Canada is already actively working to improve multilateral co-operation on food security and COVID-19, writes Nyambura Githaiga. In April, Ms. Gould co-convened a UN gathering to discuss the potential impacts of COVID-19 on food security and the need to strengthen food systems.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY NYAMBURA GITHAIGA

October 14, 2020

“When we were home, we used to eat good things, now there is nowhere to farm—it is too dry,” said Martin, a refugee from South Sudan, living in Uganda’s Rhino Camp Settlement. By 2017, there were more than one million South Sudanese refugees in Uganda, forcibly displaced by violent conflict....

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