Perspectives from CO+RE: How COVID-19 changed our food systems and food security paradigms

Bakalis, Serafim; Valdramidis, Vasilis; Argyropoulos, Dimitrios; Ahrné, Lı́lia; Chen, Jianshe; Cullen, Patrick J.; Cummins, Enda; Datta, Ashim K.; Emmanouilidis, Christos; Foster, Tim; Fryer, P.J.; Gouseti, Ourania; Hospido, Almudena; Knoerzer, Kai; Le‐Bail, Alain; Marangoni, Alejandro G.; Rao, Pingfan; Schlüter, Oliver; Taoukis, Petros; Xanthakis, Epameinondas; Impe, Jan Van

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“…COVID-19 could exacerbate this trend, while the effects of the current health crisis on food security may be amplified by local outbreaks of other diseases that have been endemic in Africa and Asia. Many scholars, including Mouloudj et al [128], Bakalis et al [12], Poudel et al [129], and Siche [130], witnessed significant adverse effects of SARS, MERS, avian and swine flu, Ebola, and other outbreaks on both agricultural production and food consumption behavior. On a smaller scale and in a more localized context, endemic diseases cause disruptions across local food supply chains similar to those the COVID-19 pandemic does to the global food supply.…”

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“…While SARS 2003 outbreak was contained within eight months with a global total of 8098 reported cases across 26 countries [136] and MERS caused 2494 reported cases in 27 countries [137], COVID-19 is spreading rapidly with over 10 million known cases as the end of June 2020. But the unprecedented spread of COVID-19 throughout the world compared with other pandemics of the past is caused by greater ease of global transportation [138] and higher population density [12] the world has achieved by 2020, not exclusively by higher contagiousness or better transmissibility of the novel coronavirus. With the growing globalization, any local outbreak has its chance to emerge to the global pandemic, while climate change and environmental degradation may increase the appearance of zoonotic diseases in humans [139,140].…”

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“…Welsh [10] explains that the pandemic is affecting food systems directly by distorting supply and demand internationally, and indirectly by degrading the purchasing power of the population and by undermining the capacity to produce and distribute food. Devereux et al [11], Bakalis et al [12], and Farrell et al [13] also emphasize the two-faced nature of direct (disrupted food systems) and indirect (undermined economic access to food) effects of COVID-19 on food security. According to the United Nations World Food Program (WFP) [14], the economic impact of the pandemic could result in doubling the number of people suffering acute hunger by the end of 2020.…”

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

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

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“…Quanto maior o número de pessoas e etapas envolvidas, mais complexo se torna o controle para a segurança. Além dos protocolos publicados pelas Organizações Mundiais, os países, estados e municípios fizeram outras adequações de acordo com suas realidades locais, populacionais e de estágios de avanço da doença (ANVISA, 2020c;BAKALIS et al, 2020; OLIVEIRA; ABRANCHES; LANA, 2020).…”

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“…Within the last few years, there are several studies have been interpreted for measuring FS (Barrett, 2010; Zhou, 2010), COVID-19 and FS (Montalvao and Van de Velde, 2020), FS and Human Mobility (Choudhury et al, 2020;Zhang et al, 2018), the impact of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security (Nyamwanza andSinyolo, 2020), Food Insecurity, andCOVID-19 (Wolfson andLeung, 2020, p. 19), food systems and FS (Bakalis et al, 2020), the determinants of FS (Bolarinwa et al, 2020;Iese et al, 2019;Le et al, 2013) and so on. By a careful evaluation and summarization of the contributions and ndings of those individual articles, this study proposed a framework for quantifying food security within the circumstances of COVID-19.…”

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Determinant of Food Security Within the COVID-19 Epidemic Circumstances- A Special Case of Chinese Agriculture Food Production and Distribution Industries

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PurposeSince the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic rises, it poses a catastrophic effect for the society and its development globally. These pandemic situations put global inhabitants under tremendous pressure to maintain a sufficient supply of nutrition and desirable food security. Agricultural food production and distribution industries may play a vital role in determining the current conditions of any countries food security and sustainable development goals. Design/methodology/approachSince an increasing number of people had been suffering from hunger and malnutrition before even the infection strikes, it could create more dangerous circumstances by creating a global food crisis if the immediate measure is not taken. This paper examines the determinants of food security within three distinct aspects (effective utilization of food, food availability, and food access) within the COVID-19 epidemic situation. For developing and validating the model, the empirical data was collected from the agricultural food supply industry in China (Shaanxi Province). Whereas, the core analytical assumption has made by employing the exploratory factor analysis (EFA), confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), and structural equation modelling (SEM).FindingsAfter analyzing the data collected from 67 agricultural food productions and distribution personnel along with the hypothesis testing, it has found that determinants of the effective utilization if food aspects are positively related to the determinants of food availability and food access aspects, and the determinants of food availability are positively related to the food access determinants. OriginalityThis research will be helpful to the government and industry in developing policies and strategies for the successful implementation of all the associated determinants of food security in terms of the epidemic situation.

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Perspectives from CO+RE: How COVID-19 changed our food systems and food security paradigms

Cited by 173 publications

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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

Impactos Da Covid-19 No Controle Higiênico-Sanitário No Setor Alimentício

Determinant of Food Security Within the COVID-19 Epidemic Circumstances- A Special Case of Chinese Agriculture Food Production and Distribution Industries

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