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Global food security post COVID‐19: Dearth or dwell in the developing world?
Author(s) -
Panghal Anupama,
Mor Rahul S,
Kamble Sachin S.,
Khan Syed Abdul Rehman,
Kumar Dinesh,
Soni Gunjan
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
agronomy journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.752
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1435-0645
pISSN - 0002-1962
DOI - 10.1002/agj2.20932
Subject(s) - food security , food systems , poverty , business , natural disaster , covid-19 , natural resource economics , food safety , enforcement , pandemic , development economics , economics , agriculture , economic growth , geography , biology , infectious disease (medical specialty) , ecology , food science , medicine , disease , pathology , meteorology
Today, global food systems are highly susceptible to food safety risks, economic shocks, price volatility, and natural disasters and pandemics, such as the novel coronavirus (COVID‐19). This paper draws from research on food and nutritional security, food fraud and associated economic ecosystem, and the disruptions due to COVID‐19 for socio‐economic inequality globally. It is concluded that the safety risks have pushed enforcement of measures to reduce food supplies, adversely impacting food availability. Also, COVID‐19 is likely to raise fleeting food security and nutritional concerns across the globe, resulting in rises in poverty and food fraud, limiting food supply and access. Accelerated investments intended to develop more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient food systems will help shrink the effect of the pandemic and, hence, offer a way to control the foreseen food security crisis and economic growth.