Even before COVID-19 arrived, armies of locusts the size of major cities were voraciously eating crops all across Africa, the Middle East and parts of Asia, and UN officials were loudly warning about what that would mean for global food production. And now the coronavirus shutdowns that have been implemented all over the planet have brought global trade to a standstill, they are making it more difficult to maintain normal food production operations, and they have forced countless workers to stay home and not earn a living. All of this adds up to a recipe for a complete and utter nightmare in the months ahead.

David Beasley is the head of the UN's World Food Program, and on Tuesday he warned that we could actually see famines of "biblical proportions" by the end of this calendar year. The following comes from ABC News…

The coronavirus pandemic could soon double hunger, causing famines of "biblical proportions" around the world by the end of the year, the head of the World Food Programme, David Beasley, told the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday.