The COVID19 pandemic crisis and the relevance of a farm-system-for-nutrition approach [0.03%]
COVID-19大流行危机与基于农场的营养方法的相关性
R V Bhavani,R Gopinath
R V Bhavani
The Covid19 pandemic should be seen as a wake-up call for humanity, to reflect, rethink and redesign food systems that are safe, healthy, sustainable, and beneficial to all. This crisis has disrupted food supply chains, affecting lives and ...
Addressing the triple burden of malnutrition in the time of COVID-19 and climate change in Small Island Developing States: what role for improved local food production? [0.03%]
在COVID-19和气候变化时代，如何解决小岛屿发展中国家营养不良的三重负担：改善当地食品生产的作用是什么？
Gordon M Hickey,Nigel Unwin
Gordon M Hickey
The impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food and nutrition insecurity are likely to be significant for Small Island Developing States due to their high dependence on foreign tourism, reliance on imported foods and underdeveloped local food ...
Fire lines as fault lines: increased trade barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic further shatter the global food system [0.03%]
火灾线成为断层线：在COVID-19疫情期间，贸易壁垒的增加进一步破坏了全球粮食系统
Kevin Z Chen,Rui Mao
Kevin Z Chen
In this opinion piece, we highlight that trade barriers established during COVID-19 as "fire lines" to prevent cross-border transmission of the pandemic could become "fault lines" that demolish the global food system. We review restrictions...
Stuart Gillespie
Stuart Gillespie
This brief article aims to interrogate some widely used concepts in framing the interactions between disease epidemics, food systems and nutrition, with a particular focus on the COVID-19 crisis. How should we conceptualize vulnerability in...
Wither the self-sufficiency illusion? Food security in Arab Gulf States and the impact of COVID-19 [0.03%]
自给自足的幻觉破灭？阿拉伯海湾国家的食物安全以及新冠肺炎的影响
Eckart Woertz
Eckart Woertz
Past approaches to food security in the countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) were informed by concerns about food availability. They aimed at domestic self-sufficiency and self-sufficiency by proxy (via farmland investments abroa...
The impact of COVID-19 related 'stay-at-home' restrictions on food prices in Europe: findings from a preliminary analysis [0.03%]
与COVID-19相关的“居家令”对欧洲食品价格的影响：初步分析的结果
Sonia Akter
Sonia Akter
This study examines the impact of COVID-19 related 'stay-at-home' restrictions on food prices in 31 European countries. I combine the European Union's Harmonised Index of Consumer Prices (HICP) with the Stay-at-Home Restriction Index (SHRI)...
Learning in times of lockdown: how Covid-19 is affecting education and food security in India [0.03%]
封锁时期的教育问题：新冠状病毒如何影响印度的教育和食品安全问题
Muzna Alvi,Manavi Gupta
Muzna Alvi
A vast majority of the relief and rehabilitation packages announced in the months following the nationwide lockdown in India have focused on economic rehabilitation. However, the education sector has remained absent from this effort, includ...
Assuring food security in Singapore, a small island state facing COVID-19 [0.03%]
面对COVID-19的食品安全保障：作为一个小型岛国的新加坡
Paul Teng
Paul Teng
Small island states have features in common which make it difficult for them to assure food security through self-production, notably limited land, fresh water and labour. As these island states grow economically, diet diversification by an...
Anjani Kumar,Arabinda K Padhee,Shalander Kumar
Anjani Kumar
The COVID-19 crisis has exposed the vulnerability of India's Agri food system and accentuated the need for agricultural market reforms and digital solutions to connect farmers to markets, to create safety nets and ensure reasonable working ...
Home gardening and urban agriculture for advancing food and nutritional security in response to the COVID-19 pandemic [0.03%]
家庭园艺和城市农业对促进食品和营养安全应对COVID-19疫情的进展
Rattan Lal
Rattan Lal
Despite a 2.3% increase in world cereal production in 2019 over 2018, the number of people facing severe food insecurity may double from 135 million in January 2020 to 265 million by the end of 2020. The problem of food and nutritional inse...