COVID-19 and disruptions to food systems

Benton, Tim G.

doi:10.1007/s10460-020-10081-1

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“…On top of the health and economic effects of COVID-19, there are climatic pressures that often aggravate supply-side food shocks in Africa and Asia (droughts, heatwaves, locust swarms, etc.) [7]. In 2020, production declines due to dry weather conditions are expected in Morocco and Tunisia [146].…”

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“…While in past years, the FAO recognized military conflicts and climate extremes as main threats to food security, the 2020 report emphasized that pandemic-related economic slowdowns and downturns undermined efforts to end hunger worldwide [ 3 ]. The pandemic is not only impacting people’s lives but is disrupting food supply chains [ 7 , 8 , 9 ]. As the virus spreads and public health protection measures tighten, there are many ways in which the global food system has been strained (border closures, quarantines, supply chain disruptions, etc.).…”

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Erokhin

Tianming

2020

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The stability of food supply chains is crucial to the food security of people around the world. Since the beginning of 2020, this stability has been undergoing one of the most vigorous pressure tests ever due to the COVID-19 outbreak. From a mere health issue, the pandemic has turned into an economic threat to food security globally in the forms of lockdowns, economic decline, food trade restrictions, and rising food inflation. It is safe to assume that the novel health crisis has badly struck the least developed and developing economies, where people are particularly vulnerable to hunger and malnutrition. However, due to the recency of the COVID-19 problem, the impacts of macroeconomic fluctuations on food insecurity have remained scantily explored. In this study, the authors attempted to bridge this gap by revealing interactions between the food security status of people and the dynamics of COVID-19 cases, food trade, food inflation, and currency volatilities. The study was performed in the cases of 45 developing economies distributed to three groups by the level of income. The consecutive application of the autoregressive distributed lag method, Yamamoto’s causality test, and variance decomposition analysis allowed the authors to find the food insecurity effects of COVID-19 to be more perceptible in upper-middle-income economies than in the least developed countries. In the latter, food security risks attributed to the emergence of the health crisis were mainly related to economic access to adequate food supply (food inflation), whereas in higher-income developing economies, availability-sided food security risks (food trade restrictions and currency depreciation) were more prevalent. The approach presented in this paper contributes to the establishment of a methodology framework that may equip decision-makers with up-to-date estimations of health crisis effects on economic parameters of food availability and access to staples in food-insecure communities.

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Section: Introductionmentioning

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Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Erokhin

Tianming

2020

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“…In addition to these emergency strategies to save farmers, Lele and Goswami (2020) suggested that input subsidy and investment could help. Furthermore, after the initial impact of the pandemic, farmers have been confused regarding which crops can be sold during this pandemic (Benton, 2020) and, upon returning to work, employee shortage has presented further issues, especially due to people staying home to prevent getting infected by COVID-19 (Greenville et al, 2020). Optimizing the familial or community workforce is one possible strategy to counter this situation.…”

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“…Before the pandemic, increasing food prices were already a big problem; thus, the arrival of the pandemic and associated unemployment meant the food-price fluctuations had a great impact (Flood, 2010). Stark price rises have been triggered by the perception that food will be scarce, leading to panic buying (Benton, 2020), forcing governments to find suitable short-and long-term strategies (Anderson et al, 2013). The balance between food supply and demand in recent decades has not been ideal and has been worsened by the pandemic (Savary et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

COVID-19, Agriculture, and Food Security in Indonesia

Rozaki

2020

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COVID-19 pandemic has significantly impacted every part of human life, both economic and non-economic, including agriculture. As a country where many people still rely on agriculture, Indonesia faces a complicated situation if the pandemic continues because food production will be affected. Indonesia announced its first COVID-19 case in March 2020; in response to this, the government applied limitations on economic and non-economic activities. These actions slowed the commercial and industrial sectors, and many people lost their jobs, with middle-and low-income citizens being the hardest hit. The situation presents a high risk for food security due to the decrease in purchasing power and food supply chains not being able to run normally. This study aims to arrange food security strategies post-COVID-19 pandemic. This paper presents, to overcome the food-security issue after COVID-19 in Indonesia, emergency strategies such as controlling food price and providing subsidies for farmer are needed. And long term strategies such as making the food supply chain more effective and increasing food diversification also required. All people and parties need to participate in every relief program for any program to fight the COVID-19 pandemic to succeed.

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“…The mobility restriction measures adopted at international level to contain Covid-19, necessary to control the advance of the pandemic, highlighted the fragility of the current food system and revived the debate about the stability of the internal food supply and food security [24][25][26][27]. This context highlights the fact that the political model based on the concept of food security and the free market may not be adequate to ensure the availability and access of food by the population.…”

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Family farming in times of Covid-19

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Family farming plays a vital role in the global food supply. The mobility restriction measures adopted internationally to contain Covid-19 are necessary to control the pandemic progress. However, they can impair food production and distribution. This paper aims to discuss the effects of the Covid-19 containment measures on the production and distribution of family farming food, and strategies to strengthen this sector. Sanitary and social distancing requirements, the interruption of supply to institutional markets, the closure of local farmers’ markets, or people’s declining food demand are hampering family farming food production’s flow and shrinking family farmers’ income. This situation can jeopardize the food sovereignty and nutritional security of the population in the medium and long term. Access to Personal Protective Equipment, the reorganization of local farmers’ markets, investment in new technologies for direct commercialization, guarantee of minimum income, and the strengthening/expansion of institutional food purchases are some of the strategies that can contribute to overcome the new challenges imposed on family farming as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic. We conclude the article by arguing that the support to and enhancement of the family farming sector are strategic to ensure food supply and to strengthen food and nutrition sovereignty and security.

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COVID-19 and disruptions to food systems

Cited by 59 publications

References 5 publications

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

Impacts of COVID-19 on Trade and Economic Aspects of Food Security: Evidence from 45 Developing Countries

COVID-19, Agriculture, and Food Security in Indonesia

Family farming in times of Covid-19

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