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AGRONOMY JOURNAL
Volume 114, Issue 1, Pages 878-884Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/agj2.20932
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Today's global food systems are facing various challenges, including food safety risks, the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic, and food fraud, which could lead to instability in food supply and accessibility. Therefore, accelerating investments in developing more inclusive, sustainable, and resilient food systems is crucial in addressing the pandemic and food security crisis.
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.
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