Food InsecurityIndiaSouth AsiaIn this article, we present our viewpoint on COVID-19 pandemic and one of the humanitarian challenges it will likely pose: food insecurity. We begin our article by presenting the status of hunger and food insecurity around the world, followed by that in lower and...
Challenges and opportunities facing food banks under COVID-19 December 16, 2020 - Greater Chicago Food Depository CEO Kate Maehr looks back on 2020, the challenge of rising food insecurity, and ways the private sector can get involved. Interview How the charitable food system is adapting to li...
Covid-19 Household food consumption Grocery retail Restaurant Healthy eating Food waste 1. Introduction The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted every aspect of life across all sections of global society [1]. This disruption is associated with ‘stay at home’ orders and lengthy curfews, also known ...
A new policy on food and nutrition security of Fiji is now before the cabinet for approval to address the situation, he said, adding that food and nutrition insecurity requires a multipronged strategy in response. "We are working across policy areas by adopting an integrated and cross policy a...
Before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019, up to 1.65 million people visited a total of 956 food banks called "Tafel" in Germany. The start of the pandemic and the associated first lockdown led to shortages in commercial food outlets and to considerable restrictions on the range ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has added to the challenges faced by Feeding America food banks. The staggering increase in food insecurity across the United States is being met by thousands of Feeding America’s food banks. While the pandemic remains a threat to safety and health, hunger is creeping ...
Many families experienced increased food insecurity due to the mandatory lockdowns [55]. This paper investigates the drivers of urban food and energy insecurity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya. Nairobi has one of the largest populations living...
COVID-19, food insecurity and dietary diversity of households: Survey evidence from Nigeria 2023, Food Security COVID-19 and Gender-Based Violence: Investigating the “Shadow Pandemic” of Sexual Violence During Crisis Lockdown in Nigeria 2022, International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative...
The IGAD region is also one of the world's leading sources and hosts of internally displaced persons and refugees and asylum seekers who, due to limited livelihood opportunities and degraded coping mechanisms, are particularly vulnerable to food insecurity and malnutrition, according to the FAO. ...
Global food security is threatened by the effects of COVID-19 on international agricultural supply chains and locusts destroying crops and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa and South Asia. We quantify the possible impacts on global supplies and prices of wheat, rice and maize. We show that loca...