Preventing global food security crisis under COVID-19 emergency (China Daily)

China Daily published an op-ed by former IFPRI Director General Shenggen Fan on the latest trend and threat from COVID-19. Fan stated that presently COVID-19 is a health crisis, but it could become a food security crisis as the epidemic grows and lingers. He suggests ways to address the possibility of a food security crisis by monitoring food prices, ensuring global and local food chains function properly, innovating ways to keep sales growing, keeping trade open, and developing safeguards to prevent zoonotic diseases. Republished as an IFPRI blog.