The COVID-19 pandemic is ravishing local, national, and global economies. In addition to the direct health impacts, the pandemic is having widespread effects on employment, poverty, food security, nutrition, education and health, and the overall functioning of food systems (Barrett, 2020, Devereux...
COVID-19ChallengesFood securityPandemicRecommendationsFood security is a major element for the sustainability, stability and development of a country. However, despite fundamental efforts in fighting poverty, Afghanistan continues to struggle with food insecurity with a large proportion of its population ...
The world at present is facing an unprecedented threat from the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID pandemic is not only a health crisis, its management options have unprecedented socio-economic crisis. COVID pandemic lockdown variably impacted the food security and food system (both production and non-prod...
China has the ability to guarantee food security and respond to global market volatility, with ample grain reserves and a healthy trend toward stable growth of grain production, despite the uncertainty the COVID-19 pandemic has brought to international agriculture trade. The country’s per capita f...
COVID-19Corona VirusFood SecurityEconomic StatusHealth ImpactSocial SafetyBangladeshhe COVID-19 pandemic is already affecting food systems directly through impacts on food supply and demand, and indirectly through decreases in purchasing power, the capacity to produce and distribute food grains which ...
ROME, April 21 (Xinhua) -- The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening food security where people depend on small-scale farming or fishing for their livelihoods, but a global food crisis is "entirely avoidable" if policy makers take timely action, according to the United Nations Food and Agriculture...
Millions of people around the world face hunger every day, and unfortunately, theCOVID-19pandemic is expected to make the issue of food security even worse. Satellites are helping to alleviate the situation by providing crucial information to monitor crop growth and harvesting from space. ...
Coronavirus disease has created an unexpected negative situation globally, impacting the agricultural sector, economy, human health, and food security. This study examined research on COVID-19 in relation to agricultural production and food security. Res
In addition to the fixed effect panel data estimator, the Method of Moments Quantile regression was employed to test the effect of COVID-19 on food security in different quantile of food security. The rest of the paper is organized as follows: Section 2 reviews the related studies. Section ...
The link between COVID-19 as a health crisis and its impact on the economic well-being is particularly evident in food security, specifically in the food security dimensions concerned with food production, the supply chain from “farm to table,” food affordability and nutrition among consumers,...