The United Nations is warning tens of millions of people are facing reduced or eliminated food rations in the coming weeks because the world’s wealthiest nations have drastically reduced aid. Speaking to The Observer of London, World Food Programme head Josette Sheeran says the agency will face at least a $2 billion shortfall by the end of the year. Under the Obama administration, the US has pledged $800 million less this year than it did under President Bush. Other nations have also reduced funding despite food prices rising in 80 percent of countries since last year. Sheeran said, “There is a silent tsunami [of hunger] gathering. You cannot see or hear it, but it’s in all these villages, killing people just as hard. This is the worst food crisis since the 1970s. We will lose a generation. Children will never recover.”