New York (CNN Business) The director of the United Nations' World Food Programme laid out a plan to spend $6.6 billion to combat world hunger — a direct response to a back-and-forth with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, who claimed he would sell Tesla stock to fund a plan if the WFP could describe "exactly how" it would work. David Beasley, the UN food program director and former Republican governor of South Carolina, tweeted a link on Monday to a 1,000-word "executive summary." Another $400 million would be used for "operations management, administration and accountability" and supply chain coordination. "The world is on fire," Beasley wrote . "I've been warning about the perfect storm brewing due to Covid, conflict, climate shocks & now, rising supply chain costs.

Source: CNN November 19, 2021 00:14 UTC