ReliefWeb published an article on concerns about the longer-term health of the subregion's food systems –involving farmers, fishers, laborers, drivers, cold storage, food processors, retailers, and consumers--in the midst of battling the COVID-19 pandemic. Both FAO and IFPRI have projected sufficient rice stocks for the rest of 2020 in the wider Asia-Pacific region, the current measures needed to curb further COVID-19 outbreaks could cause disruptions to the supply chains critical to ensuring food security.
