Food systems must be a central pandemic response option (Sunday Standard)

Sunday Standard (Botswana) published an article on how Botswana policymakers will look to two major conferences on climate change to help transform Botswana. A report prepared by the International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) entitled: 2021 Global Food Policy Report: Beyond the Pandemic Transforming Food Systems after COVID-19 states that the pandemic and associated policy responses “exposed weaknesses and inequalities within food sys­tems, including among different regions, rural and urban communities, rich and poor… dis­advantaged groups such as women.”