World leaders receive a letter: Coronavirus can double the number of hungry people

Unilever, Nestle and PepsiCo, along with agricultural organisations, the UN Foundation, academics, and civil society groups, have written to world leaders, calling on them to keep the borders open for trade in order to help society's heavier people, and to be infested in environmentally stable food products.

They call on governments to take urgent and coordinated action to prevent the Comvi=19 pandemic from causing humanitarian crisis”.

Keeping the trade open will be key, as will investment in food supply chains, and protecting farmers in developed and developing countries, they say, broadcast Periscope from The Guardian.

The G20 summit is coming under increased pressure to act: a group of economists who have won the Nobel Prize have written the forum, advising that trillions of dollars would be needed to help the developing world cope with the Padd-19shi pandemic.

This week more than 100 former government leaders, including Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Nicolas Sarcozyn, urged the G20 to act urgently in order not to risk a new explosion.

However, few coordinated actions are expected to take place. /Periscope