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FAO seeks coronavirus and hunger relief at Asia-Pacific conference

Nations met to examine how to help pandemic-battered farmers keep supplying food for tens of millions of people.

A large farm growing a variety of crops in northern Vietnam's Hạ Long Bay region
A large farm growing a variety of crops in northern Vietnam's Hạ Long Bay region (AN/Dennis Jarvis)

BANGKOK (AN) — Delegates from 46 nations joined Tuesday's opening of a virtual summit hosted by the Food and Agricultural Organization on how to help pandemic-battered farmers keep supplying food for tens of millions of people.

In a region that is home to more than half of the world's undernourished people, the coronavirus pandemic has hit small farmers particularly hard, threatening the ability of people in rural and urban locales alike to stave off hunger and malnutrition.

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