Current Coronavirus Crisis and Past Pandemics - What Can Happen in Post-COVID-19 Agriculture?

Overview

Journal Sustain Prod Consum

Publisher Elsevier

Date 2022 Jan 24

PMID 35071718

Authors

Hynek Roubik

Michal Lostak

Chama Theodore Ketuama

Petr Prochazka

Jana Soukupova

Josef Hakl

Petr Karlik

Michal Hejcman

Affiliations

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Abstract

Currently, there is an alarming increase in food insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic in many countries throughout the world. This will be seen particularly in the countries of the Global South (developing countries). Many countries are trying to show efforts to keep agriculture, food industry and markets running, the supply chains and access to the markets and affordable food is still not secured. Disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic are going to/or already have affected the poor and other marginalised groups, mainly those with less purchasing power. It is necessary to mitigate the pandemic's impacts across the food system, enhance the resilience of food systems and avoid any potential food shortages. Therefore, this paper provides an overview of past pandemics and tries to synthesise the main lessons learned from these while also outlining visions of post-COVID-19 agriculture and the effects on food security.

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