Impacts and threats of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and nutrition, and options to respond
As the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the development community is working to understand how the crisis impacts food security, nutrition, and food systems:
- On September 17, IFPRI and USAID will co-host an event to examine how changes in global food trade since the pandemic have impacted African food systems and food access. See IFPRI’s COVID-19 webpage for more evidence, blogs, tools, and events.
- Prevalence of moderate or severe wasting among children could increase by 14% due to COVID-19-related losses in GNI per capita suggests an IFPRI journal article.
- A World Development article finds important heterogeneous impacts of a national lockdown on smallholder farmers’ income and food security in two states in India.
Bold actions to transform food systems in Asia-Pacific countries
At the Thirty-fifth Session of the FAO Regional Conference for Asia and the Pacific (APRC 35), more than 40 member countries in the region pledged bold action to transform food systems: making them more sustainable, productive and resilient, and to feed a hungry world in a way that is profitable for farmers. Members issued a call for innovation, solidarity, coherence and strong partnership to rebound from COVID-19 and address ongoing malnutrition.
Advancing sustainable food value chains for nutrition
UN ESCAP is hosting an event on sustainable food value chains for nutrition on September 16. Experts from Rome-based agencies will present work on the topic, review the e-learning course on sustainable food value chains for nutrition, and discuss Mozambique’s experience in designing value chains using this approach. This meeting is open to everyone and provides the opportunity to interact with international experts, United Nations officers, University professors, researchers and fellow participants, throughout the world. Recordings of the session will be posted here.
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