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.
- A crowdsourcing tool that reveals threats to household food security in near real-time during the COVID-19 pandemic is presented by researchers from the European Commission’s Joint Research Center and the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture in an IFPRI blog, See also IFPRI’s COVID-19 webpage for more evidence, blogs, tools, and events.
- The political economy dynamics caused by the pandemic and its impacts on agriculture and food policies in different regions of the world were examined in an IFPRI hosted virtual event.
Ceres2030: Sustainable solutions to end hunger
85 researchers spanning 25 countries worked intensely for the past three years to identify the most promising solutions to end hunger sustainably, with a focus on the role of donors. This work of CERES 2030, which combined artificial intelligence, state-of-the-art modelling, and a strong partnership with Nature Research, was released at a virtual conference on October 13, as part of a series of events, hosted by the German Federal Ministry of Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ), and a call to action from the research community.
Policies that can bring about dramatic changes in food systems
On December 1, 2020, USAID’s Feed the Future Ethiopia Growth through Nutrition Activity will host a webinar on Transforming Food Systems. The webinar will focus on key issues that facilitate or impede important changes in food systems, knowledge gaps regarding tradeoffs between SDG targets, and policies that can bring about dramatic changes in food systems. The event will include commentary on the topic focusing on the Ethiopian context, and will discuss audience questions.
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