{"id":4379,"date":"2020-11-16T15:40:50","date_gmt":"2020-11-16T15:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=4379"},"modified":"2025-02-26T13:19:24","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T13:19:24","slug":"the-cost-of-a-plate-of-food-2020-wfp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2020\/11\/16\/the-cost-of-a-plate-of-food-2020-wfp\/","title":{"rendered":"Food and water"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br><strong>The Cost of a Plate of Food 2020 (WFP)<\/strong><br><a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwfp.sixeleven.it%2Fwfp-plate-of-food-2020%2Fdist%2Fen%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C9a473969c5cf4f74116d08d88897b3c7%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637409532435454334%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=BtCgw7IDsD%2FzfdBvDIg%2BkOkqyVv1KKQXoRaAOsG9rCY%3D&amp;reserved=0\">A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020<\/a> as the COVID-19 pandemic joins existing food shortages and hunger according to this report from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). <br>The report highlights the countries where a simple meal such as rice and beans costs the most, when compared with people\u2019s incomes. <br>South Sudan top of the list, with basic ingredients costing a staggering 186% of a person\u2019s daily income.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>World Bank Water Data Portal<\/strong><br>With support from the Global Water Security &amp; Sanitation Partnership (GWSP), the World Bank has just launched the <a href=\"https:\/\/eur03.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwbwaterdata.org%2F&amp;data=04%7C01%7Cad158%40LEICESTER.AC.UK%7C9a473969c5cf4f74116d08d88897b3c7%7Caebecd6a31d44b0195ce8274afe853d9%7C0%7C1%7C637409532435454334%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C1000&amp;sdata=JPKXS4cNkKq4NPn2CHYx6mf06e%2BcX9aHmPS0stOmRTI%3D&amp;reserved=0\">World Bank Water Data Portal.<\/a> It brings together in one place data on water quality and quantity; water supply and access and water and climate change<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Cost of a Plate of Food 2020 (WFP)A basic meal is far beyond the reach of millions of people in 2020 as the COVID-19 pandemic joins existing food shortages and hunger according to this report from the United Nations World Food Programme (WFP). The report highlights the countries where a simple meal such as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,15],"tags":[341,508,72,94,302,250],"class_list":["post-4379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","category-sociology","tag-food","tag-food-security","tag-poverty","tag-united-nations","tag-water","tag-world-bank"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4381,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4379\/revisions\/4381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}