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A marketplace in Kenya sells fruits and vegetables during COVID-19. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the frequency of climate shocks has made maintaining long-term food production growth increasingly harder—compounding the impact of COVID-19 on food security. Photo: © Sambrian Mbaabu/World Bank

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Health care workers inspect their personal protective equipment at an isolation center in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. COVID-19 has hit poor and vulnerable countries the hardest, threatening decades of hard-won gains. That’s why the World Bank’s International Development Association is stepping up support. Photo: © Mulugeta Ayene/UNICEF Ethiopia

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