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.
IFPRI’s Director General Wins AAEA for Superior Communications
Jo Swinnen was awarded the Quality of Communications Award for the book COVID-19 and Global Food Security and the blog posts, events, and distribution channels used to disseminate it.
NEW PUBLICATION: Impact of COVID-19 on Egypt’s dairy and artichoke value-chains
By Fatma Abdelaziz, Kibrom A. Abay, Hoda El-Enbaby, Clemens Breisinger, and Sikandra Kurdi
The COVID-19 crisis is having strong impacts on the Egyptian economy, but these impacts differ strongly across sectors.1 Based on scenarios run using a Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) multiplier model of Egypt’s economy, COVID-19 is estimated to have resulted in [...]
How Jordan Managed Food Security Risks during the First COVID-19 Wave
Hadi Fathallah - Director at NAMEA Group, and policy consultant at the World Bank, IFAD, and FAO.
Given all existing structural and emerging challenges to its agricultural and food sector, Jordan has managed to mitigate the new food security risks associated with the Corona pandemic shock on the agriculture and food value chains and the greater economy. It has done so through active policy engagement, digitization and [...]
COVID-19 and the promise of food system innovation
Corinna Hawkes - Director of the Centre for Food Policy at City, University of London.
The COVID-19 pandemic and the lockdowns that followed have disrupted private food supply chains and the public support systems the poor rely on for food and good nutrition. But these problems have also triggered many creative and entrepreneurial responses [...]
