Impacts and threats of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and nutrition, and options to respond
As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, the development community is working to understand how the crisis impacts food security, nutrition, and food systems:
- An IFPRI blog post examines the pros and cons of decentralized approaches to battling COVID-19 in low-income countries. While decentralization can be a useful pandemic response tool, such an approach may bias expenditures toward raising incomes, to the detriment of social services. See IFPRI’s COVID-19 webpage for more evidence, blogs, tools, and events.
- Analysis by FAO and World Food Programme (WFP) identifies 27 countries that are facing an impending COVID-19-driven food crises, as the pandemic's impacts aggravate pre-existing drivers of hunger.
- COVID-19 and its fallout are impacting the food security of two million migrants in South America. Latin America and the Caribbean is expected to register an alarming 269 percent rise in the number of people facing severe food insecurity compared to 2019.
- In an IFPRI blog post, IFPRI director general Jo Swinnen and Tom Reardon of Michigan State University review a range of innovations developed by firms to keep international and domestic supply chains running during the pandemic, and make recommendations on how to ensure better post-crisis food supplies.
Lessons learned from evidence-based advocacy
The Dutch Foreign Ministry, IFPRI and SNV held a virtual event on "Sharing civil society experiences adapting evidence-based advocacy" on July 15. The event gave civil society organizations the floor to share how they are using evidence to adapt to COVID-19 and to find innovative solutions for engaging with policymakers on key issues, including food security, nutrition, and water, sanitation, and hygiene services.
Call for abstracts: Delivering nutrition in India
IFPRI’s POSHAN program has extended its call for abstracts through July 25 for its virtual event on Delivering for Nutrition in India: Insights from Implementation Research. The event, which will be held in September, will bring together evidence that can inform and support current policy and program initiatives in India for improving maternal and child nutrition, with a special emphasis on implications for nutrition programming during times of crisis.
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