February 9, 2021 7:49 pm A world-renown foods rights academic has warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has caused a “hunger crisis” even in some of the world’s richest countries. Michael Fakhri, a professor at the University of Oregon School of Law, specialising in human rights, food law, development, and commercial law, said his “best guess” was that it would take at least a decade before the world recovers economically from the pandemic. Speaking tonight (February 9) at the Food, Farming and Land Convention – a two-day conference examining the future of sustainable farming and land management practices in Northern Ireland – he warned the pandemic had caused setbacks in terms of access to food for many of the most deprived in society.