COVID-19: Channels of transmission to food and agriculture

Schmidhuber, Josef; Pound, Jonathan; Qiao, Bing

doi:10.4060/ca8430en

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“…For instance, Argentina, the world's biggest soybean meal exporter, has reduced its exportation by about 50% to feed manufacturing factories, which could affect the availability of one of the most critical feed ingredients in the diets of farm animals (13). A similar situation has occurred in Brazil and the USA, where the COVID-19 pandemic restricted both soybean and corn exports, leading to a shortage of animal diet ingredients (13,40). Movement restrictions have not only limited international trade activity, but have also constrained access to national/local production inputs; as an example, pastoralists in Africa's drylands, who depend on natural plants in pastures to feed their animals, have lost this vital natural production input and therefore pastoralist livelihoods (40).…”

Section: Production Facilities and Farming Inputsmentioning

confidence: 79%

“…All of these interruptions in the livestock supply chain put the producers (farmers) at risk of not being able to continue in the field. This situation has dramatically threatened the sustainability of livestock production systems and global food security, particularly animal protein resources (40).…”

Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Food Chain Sustainabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the specific case of China, transportation bottlenecks in main roads have affected the local meat supply, and family farms cannot market hogs as trucks cannot enter villages due to the lockdown (5). In the Philippines, delays of vehicles transporting raw materials for processing meat threatened to cause a shortage until movement bans were loosened.…”

Section: Distribution and Retailmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Globally, the COVID-19 pandemic has had a direct impact on food systems through changing the food supply-demand system, and an indirect impact through decreasing purchasing power and the capacity of food distribution and marketing, and increasing healthcare tasks (4). Economic forecasts project a 0.5% fall in global economic growth in 2020 (2.4% in 2020 vs. 2.9% in 2019) as a result of disruptions to many production and industrial supply chains (5). All these elements will evoke differentiated impacts, putting many people at risk of poverty and food insecurity (3).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Animal Welfare and Livestock Supply Chain Sustainability Under the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Overview

2020

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The COVID-19 pandemic, caused by the emergence of a new strain of coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) around the end of December 2019, has caused a worldwide public health emergency and a socioeconomic crisis during 2020. The lockdown imposed to cope with the health issues caused by the outbreak of the disease has dramatically challenged and negatively affected all the economic sectors of the modern global economy. Specifically, the livestock sector and its related industries are among the most impacted sectors. This is mainly ascribed to the limitations of animal movement and the decrease of production inputs' availability. Other factors negatively affecting the sustainability of the livestock sector have been the shortage of workers due to the lockdown/curfew, the strong decrease in the purchasing power of the consumer, and the intensification of health care tasks. Such an impact is not only highly relevant because of their economic consequences, but also because of the effects of the lockdown and sanitary rules on animal care and welfare. The current review aims to offer: (a) a comprehensive overview of the impact of COVID-19 on the welfare of farm animals and on the performance of livestock farming systems, on food chain sustainability, and finally, on the global economy and food security; and (b) a prospective outline of alleviation actions.

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Section: Production Facilities and Farming Inputsmentioning

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Section: Impact Of Covid-19 On Food Chain Sustainabilitymentioning

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“…The entire food system is touched by the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, from primary supply, to processing, to trade as well as national and international logistics systems, to intermediate and final demand (Schmidhuber et al, 2020).…”

Section: Can the Covid-19 Crisis Help To Accelerate The Food Systems mentioning

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Changing Route: Common Action on Food Systems Transformation in the Mediterranean

Ridolfi¹,

Dernini

Morrison³

et al. 2020

New Medit

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The Coronavirus pandemic has revealed the fragility of our food systems, affecting all dimensions of food security and nutrition across the world. It has highlighted how deeply our world is interconnected and the importance of better recognising and understanding the interconnections that are intrinsic to these systems and their key role in pursuit of the SDGs of the 2030 Agenda. There is now, more than ever, a stronger need for a “route change” towards a common action on food systems transformation. Dialogues among all stakeholders to redesign the future of tomorrow’s food systems are needed to trigger collective, multi-stakeholder actions on the ground, at local, regional and global level, towards more sustainable food systems, linking sustainable food production to more healthy and sustainable food consumption. In this context CIHEAM, FAO, and the Union for the Mediterranean Secretariat (UfMS) initiated in 2019, a joint collaborative effort for the establishment of a multi-stakeholder platform on Sustainable Food Systems in the Mediterranean to accelerate the shift towards the Agenda 2030 in the Mediterranean region, with the Mediterranean diet acting as a driver.

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Stock markets response to contagious disease: Evidence on the impact of COVID‐19 in the three worst hit African economies

Kumeka¹,

Adeniyi

2022

Int. J Fin Econ

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This study analyses whether Coronavirus health shocks and government responses in terms of lockdown policy and stringency measures impact stock markets in Africa. We found that stock markets appeared to be more negatively responsive to growth in total number of COVID‐19 reported cases than the growth in deaths in the case of Nigeria and South Africa. While for Egypt, the stock market reacted significantly negative to both COVID‐19‐related indicators. Our results further show that government stringency policy has significant negative effect on stock market returns in the case of Nigeria and South Africa, but positive in the case of Egypt.

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COVID-19: Channels of transmission to food and agriculture

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Animal Welfare and Livestock Supply Chain Sustainability Under the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Overview

Animal Welfare and Livestock Supply Chain Sustainability Under the COVID-19 Outbreak: An Overview

Changing Route: Common Action on Food Systems Transformation in the Mediterranean

Stock markets response to contagious disease: Evidence on the impact of COVID‐19 in the three worst hit African economies

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