This new brief from the Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition - COVID-19: Safeguarding food systems and promoting healthy diets - presents 10 priority actions to help policymakers mitigate the effects of the pandemic on food systems, with a focus on consumers and food supply. It focuses on the impacts the pandemic has already had on food systems and people’s diets during 2020, and sets out key decisions and actions which are needed to ensure that food systems can continue to function effectively, recover quickly from the present crisis, and build their resilience and effectiveness for the future.
The brief argues that a clear focus is needed on actions to protect the vulnerable today, using strategies that will increase the resilience of food systems for tomorrow. The new brief also presents a vision of food systems beyond the pandemic, one where there is greater equity in access to healthy diets embedded in food system strategies, which are in turn more resilient to shocks.
