Multidimensional crisis of food insecurity in Sri Lanka, warns UN (Peoples Dispatch) 

Peoples Dispatch published an article stating that the World Food Programme’s (WFP) situation report on Sri Lanka has presented some alarming details on the ongoing food security crisis in the island nation. With almost 4.9 million out of Sri Lanka’s 22 million population currently facing food insecurity, the economic crisis in the country is threatening the life and livelihood of the masses. The food crisis in Sri Lanka has long been in the making. A recent study, Food insecurity among farmers in rural Sri Lanka and the perceived impacts of COVID-19, conducted by researchers from IFPRI, WFP, and John Hopkins University on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and livelihoods of small farmers in Sri Lanka concluded that “normal crop cultivation and harvesting was adversely impacted due to being advised to stay home, being unable to purchase inputs and poor demand in the market despite having had a relatively low number of infected cases as compared to other countries.”