The coronavirus pandemic has upended local, national, and global food systems, and put the Sustainable Development Goals further out of reach. But lessons from the world’s response can help address future shocks and contribute to change.
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Toward inclusive food systems: Pandemics, vulnerable groups, and the role of social protection
Vulnerable groups have been most affected by disruption to food systems, such as lockdowns, through loss of employment and incomes. Social protection has a key role to play in times of health and economic shocks.
Rethinking food system policies in terms of “eco-agro-food systems” can help to foster an integrated approach that will maintain and restore vital ecosystem services and reduce the likelihood of future shocks.
2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19: Synopsis [in Arabic]
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2021 Global food policy report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19: Synopsis [in Russian]
2020 год был во многом беспрецедентным.
L’année 2020 a été une période inédite à bien des égards.
Policymakers must balance critical trade-offs among policy actions and spending priorities for health, food systems, and economies. This requires a multisectoral perspective and clearly defined values.
El año 2020 fue un año sin precedentes en muchos sentidos.
The future of development engineering: Our vision for the next generation of publications in DevEng
Engineering plays an important role in advancing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
Food systems hold the key not only to food security, but also to plant, animal and human health, as well as environmental sustainability.
As the world counts down to the 2025 World Health Assembly nutrition targets and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals, millions of women, children, and adolescents worldwide remain undernourished (underweight, stunted, and deficient in micronutr
The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development pledged to move away from growing inequality to more inclusive, shared growth, away from ecocide, mass extinction of our plant and animal biodiversity, and waste and destruction of our planet’s abundant
Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's chicken and egg sector, with implications for the sustainable development goals
Chicken & eggs make important contributions to food & nutrition security of low-income households in Myanmar. What are the impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar's poultry sector?
Today, agrifood systems are undergoing remarkable changes, reflected in the modernization of food value chains and rural transformation responding to urbanization, income growth, and expansion of international trade.
The challenges posed by the water–food–energy nexus have been well documented.
Ending hunger sustainably: Trends in official development assistance (ODA) spending for agriculture
This briefing note offers an overview of the trends in official financial disbursements to agriculture for the period 2002–2018.
Impacts of COVID-19 on Myanmar’s poultry sector: Implications for achieving the sustainable development goals
This paper analyzes the impact of COVID-19 on two types of poultry production systems, broilers and layers, in Myanmar using five waves of telephone surveys from June to August 2020.
Multiplying the efficiency and impact of biofortification through metabolic engineering
Ending all forms of hunger by 2030, as set forward in the UN-Sustainable Development Goal 2 (UN-SDG2), is a daunting but essential task, given the limited timeline ahead and the negative global health and socio-economic impact of hunger.
Metrics to analyze and improve diets through food systems in low and middle income countries
Taking a food systems approach is a promising strategy for improving diets.