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:
- At an August 18 event, IFPRI hosted an event to discuss the agriculture-ecosystem health interface that was magnified by COVID-19 as well as cross-sectoral solutions to reduce such risk and enhance human and ecosystem health. See IFPRI’s COVID-19 webpage for more evidence, blogs, tools, and events.
- USAID launched the Resilience and Food Security COVID-19 Learning Hub, which gathers and disseminates lessons learned on how to mitigate and respond to the pandemic’s impact.
- IFAD shone a spotlight on the need to develop and invest in rural youth—especially during the COVID-19 pandemic—during which over one in six young people have stopped working.
- IFPRI and PIM presented new evidence in an event on August 11 on COVID-19’s short-term impacts on economies, food systems, and poverty in African and Asian countries. They find targeted social protection interventions and longer-term investing in the economic recovery are critical.
Keeping food security and nutrition atop the development agenda
The Committee on World Food Security (CFS) will take stock of the global food security situation, reflect on relevant COVID-19 impacts, and discuss the draft CFS voluntary guidelines on food system and nutrition and other key draft documents. This virtual High-Level Special Event on Food Security and Nutrition will take place on October 13-15, 2020.
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