COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later
Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected.
In COVID-19 & Global Food Security: Two Years Later, the editors bring together contributions from new IFPRI research, blogs, and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub to examine the pandemic’s effects on poverty, food security, nutrition, and health around the world. This volume presents key lessons learned on food security and food system resilience in 2020 and 2021 and assesses the effectiveness of policy responses to the crisis. Looking forward, the authors consider how the pandemic experience can inform both recovery and longer-term efforts to build more resilient food systems.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Beyond initial impacts: The evolving COVID-19 context and food system resilience | p. 8-18 [download]
John McDermott, Deborah Lee, Brian McNamara, and Johan Swinnen
FOOD SECURITY & POVERTY
Chapter 2. COVID-19 impacts on food systems, poverty, and diets: Lessons learned from country-level analyses | p. 22-29 [download]
Karl Pauw and James Thurlow
Chapter 3. Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty and food security: What more do we know now? | p. 30-36 [download]
David Laborde, Will Martin, and Rob Vos
Chapter 4. Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia | p. 37-39 [download]
Alan de Brauw, Kalle Hirvonen, and Gashaw Tadesse Abate
Chapter 5. Crowdsourced data reveal threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic | p. 40-45 [download]
Julius Adewopo, Gloria Solano Hermosilla, Fabio Micale, and Liesbeth Colen
Chapter 6. Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar | p. 46-50 [download]
Derek Headey, Ame Cho, Kristi Mahrt, Xinshen Diao, and Isabel Lambrecht
Chapter 7. Impact of falling remittances amid COVID-19 on Yemen’s war-torn economy | p. 51-53 [download]
Dalia Elsabbagh, Sikandra Kurdi, and Manfred Wiebelt
Chapter 8. Short-term impacts of COVID-19 in rural Guatemala call for a closer, continuous look at the food security and nutritional patterns of vulnerable families | p. 54-57 [download]
Francisco Ceballos, Manuel Hernandez, and Cynthia Paz
Chapter 9. COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar | p. 58-61 [download]
Catherine Ragasa, Isabel Lambrecht, Kristi Mahrt, Zin Wai Aung, and Michael Wang
AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION & VALUE CHAINS
Chapter 10. COVID-19 and food inflation scares | p. 64-72 [download]
Rob Vos, Joseph Glauber, Manuel Hernández, and David Laborde
Chapter 11. COVID-19, agricultural production, and food value chains | p. 73-81 [download]
Frank Place, Dietmar Stoian, and Nick Minot
Chapter 12. Resilience of urban value chains during the COVID-19 pandemic: Evidence from dairy and vegetable chains in Ethiopia | p. 82-86 [download]
Kalle Hirvonen, Belay Mohammed, Yetimwork Habte, Seneshaw Tamru, Gashaw T. Abate, and Bart Minten
Chapter 13. COVID-19 and resilience innovations in food supply chains: Two years later | p. 87-92 [download]
Thomas Reardon, Johan Swinnen, and Rob Vos
Chapter 14. How India’s agrifood supply chains fared during the COVID-19 lockdown, from farm to fork | p. 93-97 [download]
Sudha Narayanan
Chapter 15. China’s small and medium-sized enterprises rebounded after the COVID-19 lockdown, but economic problems linger | p. 98-101 [download]
Xiaobo Zhang
Chapter 16. Impacts of the COVID-19-driven rise in global rice prices on consumers in Papua New Guinea | p. 102-104 [download]
Emily Schmidt and Paul Dorosh
Chapter 17. COVID-19’s varied impacts on fresh fruit and vegetable supply chains in Senegal | p. 105-107 [download]
Anna Fabry, Kaat Van Hoyweghen, Hendrik Feyaerts, Idrissa Wade, and Miet Maertens
NUTRITION, HEALTH & SOCIAL PROGRAMS
Chapter 18. Uneven recovery and a lingering food crisis during the COVID-19 pandemic for rural safety net transfer recipients in Ethiopia | p. 110-121 [download]
Daniel O. Gilligan, Guush Berhane, Kalle Hirvonen, Neha Kumar, and Jessica Leight
Chapter 19. COVID-19 will mostly spare young children; the economic crisis will not | p. 122-124 [download]
Marie Ruel and Derek Headey
Chapter 20. How to support students and the learning process during India’s COVID-19 school closures | p. 126-128 [download]
Anjali Pant, Samuel Scott, and Phuong Hong Nguyen
Chapter 21. Ethiopia’s social safety net effective in limiting COVID-19 impacts on rural food insecurity | p. 129-131 [download]
Kibrom A. Abay, Guush Berhane, John Hoddinott, and Kibrom Tafere
Chapter 22. A major food transfer program in Bangladesh fell short during the COVID-19 pandemic | p. 132-134 [download]
Shyamal Chowdhury, Nahian Bin Khaled, Kalyani Raghunathan, Shahidur Rashid, and Honor Dearlove
Chapter 23. COVID-19-induced disruptions of school feeding services exacerbate food insecurity in Nigeria | p. 135-137 [download]
Kibrom A. Abay, Mulubrhan Amare, Luca Tiberti, Kwaw S. Andam, and Michael Wang
Chapter 24. Extraordinary COVID-19 social support programs in South Africa yield economic benefits during the pandemic period | p. 138-141 [download]
Sherwin Gabriel, Dirk van Seventer, Channing Arndt, Robert J. Davies, Laurence Harris, Sherman Robinson, and Jenna Wilf
Chapter 25. COVID-19 disruptions to health and nutrition services in Uttar Pradesh, India | p. 142-143 [download]
Phuong Hong Nguyen, Shivani Kachwaha, Rasmi Avula, Purnima Menon, and Michael Wang
POLICY RESPONSES & IMPLICATIONS
Chapter 26. Smarter policies for enhanced food security and food system outcomes | p. 146-161 [download]
John McDermott and Laura Allison-Reumann
Chapter 27. Fiscal and monetary responses to the COVID-19 pandemic: Current conditions and future scenarios in developing countries | p. 162-171 [download]
Eugenio Díaz-Bonilla and Miriam Centurion
Chapter 28. Selected country experiences during the pandemic: Policy responses and CGIAR support | p. 172-179 [download]
Kwaw S. Andam and Oluchi Ezekannagha
Chapter 29. Trust in science and in government plays a crucial role in COVID-19 response | p. 180-184 [download]
Danielle Resnick
Chapter 30. How to ensure effective government responses as COVID-19 spreads to rural areas | p. 185-188 [download]
Katrina Kosec and Catherine Ragasa
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