UK food and nutrition security during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

Rivington, Mike; King, Richard; Duckett, Dominic; Iannetta, Pietro P. M.; Benton, Tim G.; Burgess, Paul J.; Hawes, Cathy; Wellesley, Laura; Polhill, Gary; Begg, Graham S.; Williams, A.; Newton, Ayla C; Lorenzo‐Arribas, Altea; Neilson, Roy; Watts, Charlotte; Harris, J. Arthur; Loades, Kenneth; Stewart, Derek; Wardell-Johnson, Doug; G., Gandossi,; E., Udugbezi,; Hannam, Jacqueline; Keay, C. A.

doi:10.1111/nbu.12485

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“…Aside from the CV-19 pandemic's complex economic impacts, ecological limitations such as water deficiency, extreme soil erosion, salinity, deforestation, and natural adversities have critical consequences for global food security [ 70 , 71 ]. As a result, CV-19 harms and disrupts the agriculture industry directly and indirectly by restricting the production of specific crops and disobeying environmental protection laws due to financial losses [ 72 ].…”

Section: Possible Link Between Ghg Emission and Food Security And Agr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Greenhouse Gas Emission: Perception during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ukhurebor

Aigbe

Onyancha

et al. 2022

BioMed Research International

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The period 2020/2021 was an unprecedented and historic time for industrial, economic, and societal activities all over the world with great challenges to human health, the ecosystems, and other aspects of human endeavors owing to the COVID-19 or SARS-CoV-2 (CV-19) pandemic which is now a topical aspect of research interest. Despite the negative impacts of the CV-19 pandemic, there are also positive reports during the CV-19 pandemic such as the reduction of gas flare, reduction in the burning of fossil fuels from automobile exhaust and a reduction in the other ensuing factors of greenhouse gases emissions (which is one of the major drives for global warming and climate change as well as other environmental effluences). Hence, this brief perspective review study is centered on greenhouse gas (GHG) emission. The study employs a methodical approach to analyze some already available research studies from existing publications and databases on GHG emission using the perception during the CV-19 pandemic. The specific findings from this review show that, from the meteorological perspective, the global response to the catastrophe ensuing from the CV-19 pandemic has a great influence on the reduction of GHGs, the reduction in the burning of fossil fuels from automobiles and industrial devices, and the reduction in the other ensuing factors of GHG emission. Hence, it will not be far from the truth to conclude that there is a possible positive connection between the CV-19 pandemic and GHG emissions. The study has a direct impact on the environment owing to the negative and positive environmental consequences of the CV-19 pandemic. Suggestions and recommendations in the form of future prospects of GHG emission vis-à-vis global warming and climate change are also discussed. Furthermore, suggestions on how to improve food security and agriculture during a pandemic such as the CV-19 outbreak period are highlighted.

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Section: Possible Link Between Ghg Emission and Food Security And Agr...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Greenhouse Gas Emission: Perception during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Ukhurebor

Aigbe

Onyancha

et al. 2022

BioMed Research International

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“…Such an approach can help to broaden sustainability-accounting measures provided by LCA, to functional parameters that can be applied at bioregionalscales from the field to bioregion (e.g., Patouillard et al, 2016). The utility of bioregionalized food system approaches has also been recently demonstrated via place-based short-value chains which compensate for the limitations of the global food system manifested during the COVID-19 pandemic (Laborde et al, 2020;Rivington et al, 2021).…”

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A Multifunctional Solution for Wicked Problems: Value-Chain Wide Facilitation of Legumes Cultivated at Bioregional Scales Is Necessary to Address the Climate-Biodiversity-Nutrition Nexus

Iannetta

Hawes

Begg

et al. 2021

Front. Sustain. Food Syst.

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Well-managed legume-based food systems are uniquely positioned to curtail the existential challenge posed by climate change through the significant contribution that legumes can make toward limiting Green House Gas (GHG) emissions. This potential is enabled by the specific functional attributes offered only by legumes, which deliver multiple co-benefits through improved ecosystem functions, including reduced farmland biodiversity loss, and better human-health and -nutrition provisioning. These three critical societal challenges are referred to collectively here as the “climate-biodiversity-nutrition nexus.” Despite the unparalleled potential of the provisions offered by legumes, this diverse crop group remains characterized as underutilized throughout Europe, and in many regions world-wide. This commentary highlights that integrated, diverse, legume-based, regenerative agricultural practices should be allied with more-concerted action on ex-farm gate factors at appropriate bioregional scales. Also, that this can be achieved whilst optimizing production, safeguarding food-security, and minimizing additional land-use requirements. To help avoid forfeiting the benefits of legume cultivation for system function, a specific and practical methodological and decision-aid framework is offered. This is based upon the identification and management of sustainable-development indicators for legume-based value chains, to help manage the key facilitative capacities and dependencies. Solving the wicked problems of the climate-biodiversity-nutrition nexus demands complex solutions and multiple benefits and this legume-focus must be allied with more-concerted policy action, including improved facilitation of the catalytic provisions provided by collaborative capacity builders—to ensure that the knowledge networks are established, that there is unhindered information flow, and that new transformative value-chain capacities and business models are established.

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“…Trench warfare saw large numbers of people stuck together in close quarters for long periods of time in extremely unsanitary conditions, which provided an ideal environment for the Spanish flu to incubate and spread within the ranks of the opposing forces. It would be when the troops returned home, however, that the flu would begin to spread globally (Dowling, 2020;Rivington et al, 2021).…”

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Food Safety Economics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

Charlebois¹,

Vandertuin²

2021

JFR

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The consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis for both food safety and especially the economic sustainability of food production in Canada and around the globe are explored. A full analysis is made of the nature of the virus, and it is spread as they relate to the forces of globalization which have created a global food supply chain, with a focus on the weaknesses of a global supply chain that fell prey to the COVID-19 virus and its associated economic effects. Comparison was made to past outbreaks of Spanish flu and Ebola, both of which challenged public health, food safety, and food supply systems. A more focused analysis examines how public and private responses to the pandemic create opportunities and challenges for several linkages in the supply chain, including farms, food processing facilities, grocery stores and restaurants. The quarantine procedures put in place around the world to manage the COVID-19 necessitated radical shifts in food production and. Ultimately the response from any individual government is insufficient to weather these events, as the fundamentally international and cross-industry factors involved require a holistic, globally coordinated approach which was not possible with the tools available before these events began.

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UK food and nutrition security during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic

Cited by 16 publications

References 27 publications

Greenhouse Gas Emission: Perception during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Greenhouse Gas Emission: Perception during the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Multifunctional Solution for Wicked Problems: Value-Chain Wide Facilitation of Legumes Cultivated at Bioregional Scales Is Necessary to Address the Climate-Biodiversity-Nutrition Nexus

Food Safety Economics in the COVID-19 Pandemic

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