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Editorial: COVID-19: food system frailties and opportunities

“…The challenges to Food security affected initially its stability dimension and the ability to withstand shocks, but soon involved the whole pathway of availability (at national level), accessibility (household level), and utilization (individual) and also to include sustainability (Berry et al, 2015). The new food security dimension of agency (Clapp et al, 2022) was very engaged in the responses of the social media providing positive coping strategies (including humor) (Peng and Berry, 2021) and negative influences such as anti-vaccination messages (Wilhelm, 2023). The urgency of the situation, unfortunately, placed the on-going challenges of sustainability and climate change in the background, as well as the pandemic of obesity and malnutrition which affects far more people than were stricken by COVID.…”

“…Global alert networks should operate for disease surveillance and control of animal markets (Leahy et al). Further, it will be important to empower the civil society to counter misinformation on the social media, especially against anti-vaccination campaigns and antipublic health recommendations (Wilhelm, 2023). In Bangladesh, there was fake news that poultry could transmit the disease (Sattar et al).…”