Impacts and threats of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and nutrition, and options to respondAs the COVID-19 pandemic continues, the development community is working to understand how the crisis impacts food security, nutrition, and food systems:
- Distinguished IFPRI nutrition experts warn in a research blog post that the virus will mostly spare young children, but the economic crisis will not: it poses risk for rising child malnutrition and mortality. See IFPRI’s COVID-19 webpage for more evidence, blogs, tools, and events.
- The Global Network Against Food Crises held a high-level event at the UN General Assembly warning that the pandemic is driving up acute hunger in vulnerable countries that were already wracked by food crises.
- An IFPRI paper assesses Zambia’s policy responses to COVID-19 and finds that more efforts are needed on public health measures and on targeted monetary and fiscal incentives to sustain core economic activities for food security and nutrition. See the COVID-19 policy response portal for more.
Youth entrepreneurship can drive agricultural transformationJoin us on October 7, when IFPRI and the Syngenta Foundation for Sustainable Agriculture (SFSA) will co-host a virtual event and look at the major role young food system entrepreneurs can play to transform their countries. The event will examine key opportunities and challenges for agri-enterprises in developing countries, highlighting recent findings from a study in Nigeria. Presenters will also discuss how governments, non-profits and companies can best strengthen youth entrepreneurship in the agricultural value chain.
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