COVID-19 provides lessons for food systems reform, report finds (Devex) 

Devex published an article on the findings of the 2021 Global Food Policy Report. The article states that while the COVID-19 pandemic has left millions unable to meet basic nutritional needs and disrupted supply chains, it also has provided a window into opportunities for much-needed food systems reform according to the GFPR. The report examined the impact the pandemic had on food systems. This means that simply “building back better” will not be sufficient, said the report author and IFPRI Director General Johan Swinnen. “On one hand, there are tremendous challenges ahead. But there are also opportunities, and the lessons that we can learn from COVID have to help us … see the opportunities and invest in grabbing the opportunities. If you look back, the food system wasn’t in great shape before COVID started. … The idea of building something back actually was not a good idea. We thought we should build something differently.”