COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later

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Abstract

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. ; Chapter 1. Beyond initial impacts: The evolving COVID-19 context and food system resilience FOOD SECURITY & POVERTY Chapter 2. COVID-19 impacts on food systems, poverty, and diets: Lessons learned from country-level analyses Chapter 3. Impacts of COVID-19 on global poverty and food security: What more do we know now? Chapter 4. Despite COVID-19, food consumption remains steady in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia Chapter 5. Crowdsourced data reveal threats to household food security in near real-time during COVID-19 pandemic Chapter 6. Waves of disease, waves of poverty: New evidence on the economic impacts of COVID-19 and political instability in Myanmar Chapter 7. Impact of falling remittances amid COVID-19 on Yemen's war-torn economy 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 Chapter 9. COVID-19 undermines incomes, livelihoods in rural Myanmar AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION & VALUE CHAINS Chapter 10. COVID-19 and food inflation scares Chapter 11. COVID-19, agricultural production, and food value chains Chapter 12. Resilience of urban value chains during ...