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Agricultura Intensiva y Pandemias. Foto: Colaje Im\u00e1genes Google<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a1Que pereza!, \u00a1Qu\u00e9 preocupaci\u00f3n!, \u00a1Qu\u00e9 indignaci\u00f3n!. La Pandemia Covid-19 nos ha dado un buen revolc\u00f3n a todos, ya seamos ciudadanos, instituciones, econom\u00eda, y un largo etc<\/span>.<\/strong> De todas ellas no se cual es peor. Ya abundar\u00e9 alg\u00fan d\u00eda, por cuanto que ante la bobalizaci\u00f3n de nuestro sistema socioecon\u00f3mico, los ciudadanos estamos respondiendo con otra del mismo calibre<\/strong><\/span>, aunque algunos, no pueden decir lo mismo ante la falta de medios y las mil y una penurias arrastradas desde siembre. \u00a0\u00a1Qu\u00e9 indignaci\u00f3n!. Pero a lo que vamos, ya que at\u00f3nito desde hace meses que apenas escribo un post aunque mis \u201creservas\u201d podr\u00edan permitir que lo hiciera durante un a\u00f1o m\u00e1s, sin teclear en el PC.<\/p>\n

Y ayer, 16 de Agosto de 2020, en Madrid se manifestaron los negacionistas de lo evidente, de lo certero<\/a>. No hay m\u00e1s ciegos que los que no quiere ver y sordos que los que no desean escuchar. \u00bfRacionalidad y sentido com\u00fan?. Adi\u00f3s, ante el miedo y teor\u00eda conspiranoicas<\/strong><\/span>. Yo solo me creo lo ue personalmente me interesa. As\u00ed va el mundo. \u00a1Somos un verg\u00fcenza<\/span><\/strong>!<\/p>\n

Cuando ocurren este tipo de terremotos, causados por nuestra incuestionable estulticia, casi todos temblamos, menos los mequetrefes del botell\u00f3n y la juerga, que son tan tontos como para creer que \u00a1esto no va con ellos<\/strong><\/span>!. \u00a1Ya pagareis las consecuencias, ya!, cuando vuestros parientes no tengan dinero para pagar vuestras peligrosas juerguistas. Vivo en el centro de Madrid y no puedo dar cr\u00e9dito ante la insensatez y falta de cerebro de muchos conciudadanos, aunque en especial los j\u00f3venes. Insensatamente est\u00e1n tornando su futuro en ruina.<\/p>\n

Parece ser que los cient\u00edficos tampoco nos quedamos cortos. Ante este Pandemia, como cuando ocurri\u00f3 la del SIDA, todo advenedizo se lanza a publicar. \u00a0\u00bfY si no tiene datos?. \u00a1No pasa nada!. Existen dos posibilidades: (i)<\/strong> <\/span>ensamblar un modelito predictivo y vaticinar, lo que casi con toda seguridad no va ocurrir y (ii) especular (ellos dir\u00edan las reflexiones de los sabios) sobre el futuro de cualquier cosa en la era post-pand\u00e9mica. \u00a1Reitero!: \u00a1Cualquier cosa!<\/span>.<\/strong> Eso s\u00ed, si perteneces a una instituci\u00f3n reputada, hasta las revistas de mayor prestigio, te abren el corredor de una autopista sin peaje. La nota de prensa que os ofrecemos hoy<\/strong>, traducida al espa\u00f1ol-castellano, es producto de un art\u00edculo previo publicado en Nature<\/em>.<\/span> \u00bfY qu\u00e9 nos dice?<\/strong><\/span>. \u00a1Nada de nada, que no sea ya archiconocido!, obviedades, una detr\u00e1s de otra. Desde el principio de la Pandemia, numerosos investigadores denunciaron que la causa profunda del actual estropicio que se encuentra\u00a0 generando ese peque\u00f1o bichito al que denominamos amigablemente<\/strong><\/span> SARS-CoV-2<\/a>, r<\/span>esultaba ser la depredaci\u00f3n por parte de la antroposfera sobre la ya maltratada biosfera y su biodiversidad. \u00a0Empero<\/span><\/strong> ante la \u201cinsostenibilidad<\/strong><\/span>\u201d de la dictadura financiera que nos domina, el cambio clim\u00e1tico, degradaci\u00f3n ambiental, contaminaci\u00f3n masiva de todos los recursos naturales, as\u00ed \u00a0como los problemas de todo tipo que tales desmanes generan la salud p\u00fablica de la poblaci\u00f3n humana, las mentadas campanadas de alarma vienen repicando sin cesar,\u00a0 al menos durante la \u00faltima d\u00e9cada. Incluso la Propia Organizaci\u00f3n mundial de la salud \u2013OMS- tiene una p\u00e1gina Web sobre zoonosis y medio ambiente<\/a>. Zoonosis<\/a>: \u201cSe dice de cualquier enfermedad propia de los animales que incidentalmente puede comunicarse a las personas<\/em>.\u201d. Y de eso va la noticia, que tan solo adolece de un peque\u00f1o defecto<\/strong><\/span>. Lo han dicho hasta las musara\u00f1as con bastante antelaci\u00f3n. Tampoco debemos olvidar que soslaya otros factores, al incidir esencialmente en la agricultura<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Necesitamos ser m\u00e1s respetuosos con el medio ambiente, abandonar la agricultura industrial y en especial esa intens\u00edsima interacci\u00f3n, en espacios peque\u00f1os, entre animales y seres humanos<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u00a0Hoy os ofrecemos una noticia que lleva por t\u00edtulo \u201cLa agricultura intensiva aumenta el riesgo de pandemia<\/span><\/strong>\u201d. Es decir defiende que o somos m\u00e1s respetuosos con la biosfera, o destruiremos nuestro h\u00e1bitat global. \u00a1Trivialidad ecol\u00f3gica!<\/strong><\/span>. Sin embargo, al menos este susto, o tragedia a escala global<\/strong><\/span> (a saber cuales terminan siendo las consecuencias, sin fallar \u201catinadamente\u201d como resultado de apelar a modelitos de simulaci\u00f3n\u201d) sirva para reforzar que, o giramos actuando en consecuencia, o la biosfera nos voltear\u00e1<\/strong><\/span> como si fu\u00e9ramos mu\u00f1ecos de peluche.<\/p>\n

Empero si comemos insaciablemente y seguimos destruyendo tierras marginales para su puesta en cultivo, ya que suelos f\u00e9rtiles no quedan, \u00bfQu\u00e9 se puede hacer?<\/strong><\/span>. Y aqu\u00ed la nota de prensa no nos dice nada<\/strong><\/span>. De hecho da lugar a pensar que o nos acogemos a dietas estrictamente hipocal\u00f3ricas hasta que nos quedemos fam\u00e9licos, y de este modo logremos retrasar alg\u00fan tiempo la agon\u00eda, o\u2026.. \u00bfQu\u00e9?. Y resulta ser justamente este \u00bfQu\u00e9?, el que me causa una honda preocupaci\u00f3n. \u00a0Tenemos dos, tres, cuatro, cinco\u2026\u2026 problemas por resolver, antes de empezar. Superpoblaci\u00f3n, inasumibles desigualdades sociales<\/strong><\/span> (nacionales e internacionales) en el reparto de la riqueza, una dictadura financiera<\/strong><\/span> que debemos hacer desaparecer, por cuanto atesora el control de todo lo que ocurre, ya que cualquier cosa es convertible en sus desquiciadas mentes como \u201cun modelo de negocio\u201d que reclama \u201cemprendimiento\u201d<\/strong><\/span> y bla, bla, bla.<\/p>\n

Pues bien, ante este tipo de art\u00edculos, todos ofrecen alternativas, todos creer tener en sus mentes el santo Grial. Y aqu\u00ed los defensores de primero la tecnolog\u00eda<\/strong><\/span> ( tener dinero para adquirirla. Por supuesto) y luego \u00abde todo lo dem\u00e1s\u201d pueden frotarse las manos, volviendo las supuestas buenas intenciones del art\u00edculo, en una especie de virus infeccioso que actuar\u00eda a modo de bomba de relojer\u00eda contra la sociedad<\/strong><\/span>. Veamos, sin ser exhaustivos.<\/p>\n

\u201cLa evoluci\u00f3n de los cultivos puede seguirse mediante al arsenal de sensores remotos que \u201catesoramos\u201d. \u00a0Los jornaleros que recogen las cosechas, ser\u00e1n reemplazados por ingenios rob\u00f3ticos apoyados por una agricultura inteligente repleta de instrumentaci\u00f3n, y que a la postre generar\u00e1 menos puestos de trabajo y como corolario m\u00e1s pobreza en el mundo. \u00bfY si se extinguen las abejas y otros vitales polinizadores de nuestras especies cultivadas? \u00a1No preocup\u00e9is! Varias multinacionales est\u00e1n al acecho de crear diminutos drones que las reemplacen. \u00a0Y as\u00ed podr\u00edamos seguir \u201cad neuseam\u201d. Empero, entonces que hacemos los humanos corrientes?. Caben varias alternativas como (i) fallecer por el coronavirus, (ii) seguir confinados \u00bf\u00bf?? (iii) o ser emprendedores \u00bf?.\u00a0 Estas son las cuestiones que pueden desprenderse desde este inocuo y insustancial art\u00edculo<\/em><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Empero como defendemos la agricultura ecol\u00f3gica<\/strong><\/span>, abajo os dejo una tormenta de noticias que la FAO ha publicado y recopilado<\/strong><\/span> para a\u00f1adirla al Internet FAO COVID-19 website<\/a><\/strong>. <\/strong>Nadie quiere quedarse atr\u00e1s de a la hora de manifestarse como seriamente preocupados. Dicho de otro modo, el giro agroecol\u00f3gico puede tornarse en un juego de malabarismos tecnol\u00f3gicos propios de<\/strong> la <\/strong><\/span>tecnociencia<\/a> que nos ha conducido hasta aqu\u00ed.<\/p>\n

Hoy si ten\u00e9is material en abundancia sobre el COVID y la agricultura, gracias a la FAO.\u00a0 E<\/span>mpero recordar que las epidemias zoonoticas han existido como un azote para la humanidad, desde siempre, como ya os coment\u00e9 en otros post. Lo \u00fanico que hemos logrado demostrar a los espectros de nuestros antepasados, es que no se trata de tecnolog\u00eda, ya que <\/span><\/strong>lo estamos haciendo igual o peor que en pandemias precedentes de la misma guisa que acaecieron siglos tras, cuando ni se sab\u00eda lo que era un microbio.<\/p>\n

Uff \u00a1Qu\u00e9 pereza!. \u00a1Cuanto me ha costado\u201d, no decir nada.<\/p>\n

Juan Jos\u00e9 Ib\u00e1\u00f1ez<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Contin\u00faa\u2026..<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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Intensive farming heightens pandemic risk: study<\/a>
\n<\/strong>By Patrick GALEY; Paris (AFP) Aug 5, 2020<\/h2>\n

Intensive farming makes future pandemics such as COVID<\/strong>-19<\/strong> more likely as wild animals carrying diseases known to infect humans are forced into increasingly close contact with us, research showed Wednesday.<\/p>\n

Writing in the journal Nature<\/strong>, a team of researchers from University College London<\/strong> warned that animal pathogens are increasingly likely to make the leap to humans as land use changes benefit animal hosts.<\/p>\n

The United Nations estimates that three quarters of land on Earth has been severely degraded by human activity since the start of the industrial era.<\/p>\n

An insatiable surge in food consumption means that one third of all land and three quarters of all fresh water is given over to agriculture.<\/p>\n

Land used for farming is expanding every year, often to the detriment of natural havens such as forests, home to wild animals that carry numerous diseases from which humans can fall ill.<\/p>\n

The UCL team looked at more than 6,800 ecological communities from six continents and found that animals known to carry pathogens — such as bats, rodents and birds — are more common in landscapes intensively used by humans.<\/p>\n

They said their findings show a clear need to change how we exploit land in order to reduce the risk of future pandemics.<\/p>\n

\u00abThe way humans change landscapes across the world, from natural forest to farmland, has consistent impacts on many wild animal species, causing some to decline while others persist or increase,\u00bb said Rory Gibb, from UCL’s Centre for Biodiversity and Environment Research.<\/p>\n

La agricultura intensiva aumenta el riesgo de pandemia: estudio<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

La agricultura intensiva hace que futuras pandemias como la COVID-19 sean m\u00e1s probables<\/em><\/strong>, ya que los animales salvajes portadores de enfermedades<\/strong> que se sabe que infectan a los humanos se ven obligados a tener un contacto cada vez m\u00e1s estrecho con nosotros<\/strong>, mostr\u00f3 una investigaci\u00f3n el mi\u00e9rcoles.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

En un art\u00edculo de la revista Nature, un equipo de investigadores del University College de Londres advirti\u00f3 que es cada vez m\u00e1s probable que los pat\u00f3genos animales den el salto a los humanos a medida que los cambios en el uso de la tierra benefician a los hu\u00e9spedes animales<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Las Naciones Unidas estiman que las tres cuartas partes de la tierra de la Tierra han sido severamente degradadas por la actividad humana<\/em><\/strong> desde el comienzo de la era industrial.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Un aumento insaciable del consumo de alimentos significa que un tercio de toda la tierra y las tres cuartas partes del agua dulce se dedica a la agricultura<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

La tierra utilizada para la agricultura se expande cada a\u00f1o, a menudo en detrimento de para\u00edsos naturales como los bosques, hogar de animales salvajes que portan numerosas enfermedades de las que los humanos pueden enfermarse<\/em><\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

El equipo de UCL examin\u00f3 m\u00e1s de 6.800 comunidades ecol\u00f3gicas de seis continentes y descubri\u00f3 que los animales que se sabe que son portadores de pat\u00f3genos<\/strong>, como murci\u00e9lagos, roedores y aves, son m\u00e1s comunes en paisajes que los humanos utilizan intensamente<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Dijeron que sus hallazgos muestran una clara necesidad de cambiar la forma en que explotamos la tierra para reducir el riesgo de futuras pandemias<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abLa forma en que los seres humanos cambian los paisajes en todo el mundo, desde los bosques naturales hasta las tierras de cultivo, tiene impactos constantes en muchas especies de animales silvestres<\/strong>, haciendo que algunas disminuyan mientras que otras persisten o aumentan\u00bb, dijo Rory Gibb, del Centro de Investigaci\u00f3n sobre Biodiversidad y Medio Ambiente de UCL.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abOur findings show that the animals that remain in more human-dominated environments are those that are more likely to carry infectious diseases that can make people sick.\u00bb<\/p>\n

– Disease reservoir –<\/p>\n

More than half of agricultural land increase is being carved out of Earth’s forests, according to the UN’s biodiversity panel.<\/p>\n

COVID-19, which has infected more than 18 million people and killed more than 700,000, is almost certain to have originated in animals before passing to and spreading among humans.<\/p>\n

The novel coronavirus is just one of several deadly viruses that have made the leap from animals, which carry thousands of types of microbes that may be harmful to humans.<\/p>\n

And as the disease reservoir gets squeezed ever tighter, the risk of leaks rises.<\/p>\n

Research co-author Kate Jones said the findings showed how governments should view agriculture and food supply as intrinsically linked to human health.<\/p>\n

\u00abAs agricultural and urban lands are predicted to continue expanding, we should be strengthening disease surveillance and healthcare provision in those areas that are undergoing a lot of land disturbance,\u00bb she said.<\/p>\n

David Redding, also a UCL co-author, said he hoped the research would change the way people think about sacrificing nature for food.<\/p>\n

\u00abI think it is important that we make a strong and persistent link between economically driven (often from Western markets) land-use change and indirect costs to local and global human populations, such as zoonotic disease outbreaks,\u00bb he told AFP.<\/p>\n

\u00abNuestros hallazgos muestran que los animales que permanecen en entornos m\u00e1s dominados por humanos son los que tienen m\u00e1s probabilidades de ser portadores de enfermedades infecciosas que pueden enfermar a las personas<\/strong>\u00ab.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

– Reservorio de enfermedad –<\/em><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

M\u00e1s de la mitad del aumento de tierras agr\u00edcolas se est\u00e1 extrayendo de los bosques de la Tierra<\/em><\/strong>, seg\u00fan el panel de biodiversidad de la ONU.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Es casi seguro que el COVID-19<\/strong>, que ha infectado a m\u00e1s de 18 millones de personas y ha matado a m\u00e1s de 700.000, se origin\u00f3 en animales antes de transmitirse y propagarse entre los humanos<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

El nuevo coronavirus es solo uno de varios virus mortales que han salido de los animales, que portan miles de tipos de microbios que pueden ser da\u00f1inos para los humanos.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Y a medida que el reservorio de la enfermedad se aprieta cada vez m\u00e1s, aumenta el riesgo de fugas<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

La coautora de la investigaci\u00f3n, Kate Jones, dijo que los hallazgos muestran c\u00f3mo los gobiernos deber\u00edan ver la agricultura y el suministro de alimentos como intr\u00ednsecamente vinculados a la salud humana<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abDado que se prev\u00e9 que las tierras agr\u00edcolas y urbanas contin\u00faen expandi\u00e9ndose, deber\u00edamos fortalecer la vigilancia de enfermedades y la provisi\u00f3n de atenci\u00f3n m\u00e9dica<\/strong> en aquellas \u00e1reas que est\u00e1n sufriendo muchos disturbios\u00bb, dijo.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

David Redding, tambi\u00e9n coautor de UCL, dijo que esperaba que la investigaci\u00f3n cambiara la forma en que la gente piensa sobre el sacrificio de la naturaleza por la comida<\/strong>.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00abCreo que es importante que establezcamos un v\u00ednculo fuerte y persistente entre el cambio de uso de la tierra impulsado econ\u00f3micamente (a menudo desde los mercados occidentales) y los costos indirectos para las poblaciones humanas locales y mundiales, como los brotes de enfermedades zoon\u00f3ticas<\/em><\/strong>\u00ab, dijo a la AFP.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Informaci\u00f3n de la FAO sobre pandemias Covid-19 y agricultura hata Mayo de 2020<\/a><\/h1>\n

COVID-19 and Agroecology reading list<\/a><\/p>\n

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The external references on this page are provided for informational purposes only – they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by FAO.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

20\/05\/2020\u00a0–\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

See\u00a0FAO COVID-19 website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This list will be continually updated and expanded as more resources become available\u00a0(Last Update 27 May 2020<\/span>).<\/p>\n

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FAO Updates<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/span>Sustainable crop production and\u00a0COVID-19 Policy Brief<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This policy brief is intended for decision-makers in developing Member Countries where food security and nutrition are underpinned by the outputs of hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers. It provides guidance on actionable measures for mitigating the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on crop production to support sustainable food systems, and ultimately enhancing the resilience of institutions and infrastructure to ensure the delivery of safe and nutritious food.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 and smallholder producers\u2019\u00a0access to markets<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is substantially affecting smallholder producers\u2019 access to markets.\u00a0Immediate impacts tend to be more severe for high-value commodities (perishable products),\u00a0which are often produced by smallholder farmers. Several countries are putting in place a\u00a0variety of measures to mitigate the impact of the pandemic on smallholder producers. This brief\u00a0builds on lessons learned in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone during the 2014 Ebola virus\u00a0disease (EVD) epidemic and during the 2007\u20132008 global food prices volatility crisis. It also\u00a0analyses the initial challenges and responses by the countries that were affected at the early\u00a0stages of the outbreak. The aim is to inform policymakers on options for mitigating the effects\u00a0of the lockdown on food and agriculture with attention to smallholders\u2019 access to markets.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Urban food systems and COVID-19:\u00a0The role of cities and local governments\u00a0in responding to the emergency<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is disrupting urban food systems worldwide, posing a number of challenges for cities and local governments that are obliged to deal with rapid changes in food availability, accessibility and affordability \u2013 which strongly impact the food security and nutrition situation of urban populations. The majority of the urban population in developing countries relies on informal sector activities and casual labour including those related to food systems (street food vendors and those working in wet markets) and have access to limited or no assets or savings. Policies to limit the effects of the virus such as lockdowns, or physical distancing can spell disaster for the livelihoods of those individuals and their families leading, inter alia, to food insecurity and deficient nutrition.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Maintaining a healthy diet during the COVID-19 pandemic<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Good nutrition is very important before and after an infection. Infections take a toll on the body especially when these cause fever, the body needs extra energy and nutrients. Therefore, maintaining a healthy diet is very important during the COVID-19 pandemic. While no foods or dietary supplements can prevent COVID-19 infection, maintaining a healthy diet is an important part of supporting a strong immune system.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 and the risk to food supply chains: How to respond?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Countries have shut down the economy to slow the spread of the coronavirus. Supermarket shelves remain stocked for now. But a protracted pandemic crisis could quickly put a strain on the food supply chains, a complex web of interactions involving farmers, agricultural inputs, processing plants, shipping, retailers and more. The shipping industry is already reporting slowdowns because of port closures, and logistics hurdles could disrupt the supply chains in the coming weeks. In order to avoid food shortages, it is imperative that countries keep the food supply chains going.<\/p>\n

Reports and papers<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 and the crisis in food systems: Symptoms, causes, and potential solutions<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) has taken stock of the past 100 days amid the global pandemic, with a new communiqu\u00e9 on COVID-19 and the crisis in food systems. What are the symptoms and causes of this food crisis? Why are we in the midst of this perfect storm? What can be done immediately to avert more damage to society and the economy? And what are the structural changes we now need to protect people and the planet?<\/p>\n

The International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food Systems (IPES-Food) on April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Preliminary monitoring report on the Impact of COVID-19 on the Human right to Food and Nutrition<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This document presents FIAN International\u2019s preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and the\u00a0measures taken by governments around the world to contain the pandemic on the human right to\u00a0food and nutrition (HRtFN). It is the result of a collective effort to monitor developments around the\u00a0world over the last two weeks, and it is based on our mandate to support grassroots communities\u00a0and social movements in their struggles to assert their rights.<\/p>\n

FIAN International on 8th April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Interim Issues Paper on the Impact of COVID-19 on Food Security and Nutrition (FSN) by the High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

CFS High-Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutrition (HLPE) present an Issue Paper on COVID-19 and its impacts on food security, to provide a brief, preliminary analysis of the likely short, medium, and long-term impacts on our global food system and on food security and nutrition, broadly.<\/p>\n

CFS on 24th March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Media Coverage<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0As Food Supply Chain Breaks Down, Farm-To-Door CSAs Take Off<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model’s focus on local and fresh is ideally suited for a crisis that has people deeply worried about germs on lettuce, beets or broccoli as the crops make their way from the field to the kitchen counter.<\/p>\n

NPR. org on 10 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Spoiled Milk, Rotten Vegetables and a Very Broken Food System<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The coronavirus crisis demonstrates what is wrong with how the world feeds itself.\u00a0We need to rejuvenate local and regional food systems to reduce the vulnerabilities that come with being too reliant on imported and corporate-dominated foods.<\/p>\n

The New York Times on 8 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Our fatal farming system: the other emergency<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Producing differently and smarter: Freeing up land by reducing meat production by 45%, reviving ecosystems by dedicating 10% of farmland to agroecological infrastructures such as hedges, flower strips, and ponds, and preserving semi-natural grasslands. The transition to agroecology also involves phasing out pesticides and fertilizers and stopping burning food crops like maize and rapeseed for biofuels.<\/p>\n

Birdlife on 5 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Coronavirus:<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0Food supply chains ‘need a rethink’<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Buying food from local suppliers could be the answer to food shortages after lockdown ends. Buying local reduces food miles, it has a better environmental impact, it also involves less processing, so food is more nutritious. What the crisis is showing is how resilient small shops and small family farms are.<\/p>\n

BBC News on 3 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u2018Return to normal\u2019 from the COVID-19 crisis?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Short supply chains have brought producers closer to consumers, avoiding profit-driven intermediaries. In parallel, small-scale producers and civil society groups have been jointly promoting agroecological methods; these depend on farmers\u2019 knowledge of locally available natural resources, especially by reproducing biodiverse seeds and recycling nutrients, thus minimising environmental harm.<\/p>\n

The Open University on 3 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Five things we\u2019ve learned about COVID-19, climate and food systems<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The opportunities are plentiful \u2014 from embracing agroecological systems that nurture ecosystems and rebuild soil fertility to improving human, animal, and planetary health to initiating global, local, and regional processes that put food systems at the heart of policy- and decision-making \u2014 it\u2019s just a matter of acting according to the future we want to see.<\/p>\n

Medium.com on\u00a0<\/em>30 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Local food solutions during the coronavirus crisis could have lasting benefits<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Eating the most nutritive foods to ensure better health and wellbeing is closely linked to the ability of communities to undertake innovative local agroecological practices. The agroecology approach aims to create sustainable food systems, and at the core of this approach is a set of practices based on ‘locally adapted’ farming.<\/p>\n

Phys.org on 22 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0The Coronavirus Pandemic Challenges The Global Food System And Should Brings Us Towards Agroecology\/<\/strong><\/a>La pandemia de coronavirus desaf\u00eda el sistema alimentario mundial y deber\u00eda llevarnos hacia la agroecolog\u00eda<\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>(In English and Spanish)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n

Agroecology promotes agricultural systems that work in harmony with pre-existing ecologies. Using science, we seek to create agricultural systems that enhance biodiversity, promote closed-loop systems, increase soil health, and eliminate the fragile dependence on external synthetic inputs.<\/p>\n

The Costa Rica news April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Covid-19 response: inclusion of rural youth in Sub-Saharan Africa<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 crisis cannot permit a setback to progress in reducing rural poverty. At this challenging time, we are reminded of the importance of international cooperation. Cooperation that responds to the immediate impacts of the crisis while also protecting the needs of one of the most vulnerable groups \u2013 the rural youth.<\/p>\n

GoobJoog News on 1st May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Halt destruction of nature or suffer even worse pandemics, say world\u2019s top scientists<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cRampant deforestation, uncontrolled expansion of agriculture, intensive farming, mining and infrastructure development, as well as the exploitation of wild species have created a \u2018perfect storm\u2019 for the spillover of diseases.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Guardian on 27 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0The solution to food insecurity is food sovereignty<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 pandemic is pushing many to recognise the importance and urgency of food sovereignty – the right of people to determine their own food and agricultural systems and their right to produce and consume healthy and culturally appropriate food.<\/p>\n

Al Jazeera on 25 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Opinion: Local food solutions during the coronavirus crisis could have lasting benefits<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Eating the most nutritive foods to ensure better health and wellbeing is closely linked to the ability of communities to undertake innovative local agroecological practices. The agroecology approach aims to create sustainable food systems, and at the core of this approach is a set of practices based on ‘locally adapted’ farming.<\/p>\n

Phys Org on 22 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a02020 \u2013 a Super Year for Biodiversity?<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Even before COVID-19, itself a product of the abuse of biodiversity, most Parties to the CBD recognised that we are at the most critical \u2018fork in the road\u2019 which humans have ever faced and that we need to organise society along a path that will enable us to live within planetary boundaries.<\/p>\n

Agroecology Now! April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0When biodiversity fails, human health is on the line<\/a>\u00ad\u00ad<\/strong><\/p>\n

To protect ecosystems and human health, countries must conserve natural areas and their rich assemblages of microbial, plant and animal species.<\/p>\n

African Arguments on 6 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/a>The Pandemic Is Not a Natural Disaster<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Self-isolation is key if we are to stop the pandemic\u2014and yet the need for isolation is, in itself, an acknowledgment of our deep integration with our surroundings. To fully respond to what\u2019s happened, we need to reflect on the worldwide ecological networks that bind all us together.<\/p>\n

New Yorker on 13 April<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0We Need to Change How We Grow Our Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

COVID-19 has reminded us we cannot take our interrelation for granted \u2014 with each other or with nature. We must rethink an industrial food system that ruptures these vital relationships and step up our efforts to support practices that restore and sustain them. By ramping up private and public investment for agroecology now; we can feed the world and strengthen our resilience against this crisis \u2014 and the ones yet to come.<\/p>\n

Heated on 8 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Applying the hard lessons of coronavirus to the biodiv<\/a>ersity crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This year was supposed to be a \u2018Super Year for Nature<\/a>,\u2019 with a number of global meetings; a World Conservation Congress, a UN Ocean Conference, and a UN Nature Summit \u2013 all culminating in a global biodiversity conference that would agree on a decade-long ‘Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework’. This was supposed to be the year that launched the Decade of Restoration, and that finally acknowledged nature-based solutions in climate negotiations. But COVID-19 had other plans. We must learn and adapt faster than ever, and the virus has lessons that apply to the global crises of biodiversity loss.<\/p>\n

UNDP on 27 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Agroecology in times of COVID-19 \/ Agroecolog\u00eda en tiempos del COVID-19\u00a0<\/strong><\/a>(in Spanish)<\/em><\/p>\n

Como nunca antes, la pandemia de coronavirus nos revela la naturaleza sist\u00e9mica de nuestro mundo: la salud humana, animal y ecol\u00f3gica est\u00e1n estrechamente vinculadas. Sin duda el COVID -19, e es un llamado de atenci\u00f3n para la humanidad a repensar nuestro modo de desarrollo capitalista y altamente consumista y las formas en que nos relacionamos con la naturaleza. Los tiempos exigen una respuesta integral a la crisis actual, donde se aborden<\/p>\n

Des inform\u00e9monos on 24 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Farmers markets are vital during COVID-19, but they need more support<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Farmers’ markets have long served as a way to increase food access in low-income areas, support small farmers and local businesses, and bolster a strong, locally empowering economy. Now, with food insecurity heightened, the agricultural food supply chain at risk, and local economies devastated by businesses closures, farmers’ markets can fill critical health and economic gap. But they need federal, state, and local commitment to allow them to remain open and safe as essential services amid the pandemic.<\/p>\n

Brookings on 8 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 lockdowns threaten Africa\u2019s vital informal urban food trade<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Informal food markets are vital to feeding African cities, venues the poor rely on to buy and sell fresh food. As governments impose COVID-19 restrictions, informal food traders should be helped rather than persecuted. Developing hygiene practices and clean water supplies with market associations, allowing more dispersed market sites during epidemics, and extending safety nets and health benefits found in the formal markets to informal market workers.<\/p>\n

IFPRI blog on 31 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Is factory farming to blame for coronavirus?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Scientists are tracing the path of Sars-CoV-2 from a wild animal host \u2013 but we need to look at the part played in the outbreak by industrial food production.<\/p>\n

The Guardian on 28 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Agroecology: Farming for a Better Future?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

With a global pandemic tightening its grip around the world and photos of empty supermarket shelves flooding social media, there\u2019s never been a better time to consider where our food comes from. Asger Mindegaard explores how \u2018agroecology\u2019 can make our food production more resilient, rebuild healthy ecosystems and perhaps even prevent future outbreaks like COVID-19.<\/p>\n

Meta by EEB on 24 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0This Pandemic Shows How We Can Improve the U.S. Food System<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Every society must find the right balance between market freedom and government responsibility. Across place and time, societies have made different choices about where to draw this line, suggesting that the mantra that there is no alternative to the current system is patently false. COVID-19 presents new threats to our food system and to every other sector of our society. Finding ways to use this crisis to recalibrate this balance to meet the current and future threats is an urgent priority.<\/p>\n

Heated on 23 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0How will COVID-19 affect Africa\u2019s food systems?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Food supplies shouldn\u2019t be too badly affected, but social restrictions will make it hard for many to buy and access food.<\/p>\n

African arguments on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Crop diversity can buffer the effects of climate change<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Researchers found that farms with diverse crops planted together provide more secure, stable habitats for wildlife and are more resilient to climate change than the single-crop monoculture that dominates today’s agriculture industry.<\/p>\n

Science Daily on 18 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Destruction of Habitat and Loss of Biodiversity are Creating the Perfect Conditions For Diseases Like COVID-19 To Emerge<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

As habitat and biodiversity loss increase globally, the novel coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics<\/p>\n

Ensia on 17 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Where did coronavirus come from, and where will it take us?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

An interview with Rob Wallace, author of Big Farms Make Big Flu<\/p>\n

Uneven Earth on 12 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Coronavirus and the Need for a Social Ecology<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Pandemics are ecological issues. Viral outbreaks often emerge at the intersection of human society and wildlife, and a relationship of domination that the former has with the latter.<\/p>\n

Institute for Social Ecology undated<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Social Contagion<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

A fascinating long read by a left-wing Chinese journal examining the historical and contemporary nexus between pandemics and economics, and what this crisis reveals about health systems and state responses.<\/p>\n

Chuangcn blog 26 February 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>The impact of the pandemic on farmers markets and short food supply system in Brazil<\/a>\/Impacto da epidemia nas feiras e iniciativas de comercializa\u00e7\u00e3o direta<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(in Portuguese)<\/em><\/p>\n

The need for social isolation lived all over the country as a way to contain the spreading of COVID-19 has deeply affected food supply. In some cities, governmental measures guide new standards for the supermarkets and grocery stores such as the distinctive opening hours for most vulnerable groups and the reinforcement of the cleaning and hygiene practices. However, when it comes to farmers’ markets, second favorite place to buy foodstuffs for Brazilians, the creation of standards becomes more difficult and complex to implement due to the diverse dynamic of the functioning of these channels. The challenges brought by this pandemic range from the asepsis of the exposition structures, the minimal distance between the stands, payment methods, packaging, until the maintenance of the farmers’ markets itself face the necessity of a safeguard social interaction.<\/p>\n

Sul21 on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Think Exotic Animals Are to Blame for the Coronavirus? Think Again.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The race to finger the animal source of COVID-19, the coronavirus currently ensnaring more than 150 million people in quarantines and cordons sanitaires in China and elsewhere, is on. The virus\u2019s animal origin is a critical mystery to solve. But speculation about which wild creature originally harbored the virus obscures a more fundamental source of our growing vulnerability to pandemics: the accelerating pace of habitat loss.<\/p>\n

The Nation on 18 February 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Coronavirus measures could cause global food shortage, UN warns<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We need to have policies in place so the labour force can keep doing their job. Protect people too, but we need the labour force. Major countries have yet to implement these sorts of policies to ensure that food can keep moving.<\/p>\n

The Guardian on 26 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Coronavirus: ‘Nature is sending us a message\u2019, says UN environment chief<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Nature is sending us a message with the coronavirus pandemic and the ongoing climate crisis, according to the UN\u2019s environment chief, Inger Andersen. Andersen said humanity was placing too many pressures on the natural world with damaging consequences and warned that failing to take care of the planet meant not taking care of ourselves.<\/p>\n

The Guardian on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Four ways COVID-19 will change food systems and food security<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This article analyzes the impact of the COVID-19 in four aspects of the food system: individual behaviors affecting food, collective behavior and popular culture, institutional changes and infrastructures and public policies. The author claims that food system outcomes will depend almost entirely on whether the political, health and media powers-that-be continue to control, limit and focus health communications around COVID-19 \u2014 as if it\u2019s strictly a matter of a virus that should only be managed by social distancing to reduce contagion.<\/p>\n

The Medium on 27 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Social Movements, Civil society and\u00a0Non-governmental organizations<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 forces us to confront food insecurity and hunger in South Africa: Agroecology offers solutions in a crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Not only does agroecology increase household food and nutrition security by providing safe, nutritious, seasonal and culturally appropriate foods, the practice of agroecology also contributes positively to our socio-economic outcomes such as health and education, while protecting from disease through the stronger immune system.<\/p>\n

BioWatch South Africa on 29 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Anchored in solidarity: how agroecology can bring us out of the crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

In this current crisis, people on the frontlines of poverty and injustice will suffer the most. Among them are smallholder farmers and agricultural workers, who harvest and transport the food we eat every day. Governments must take urgent measures to support small-scale farmers not only with social protection programs, which are important but also with structural solutions that will ensure long-term food and economic security.<\/p>\n

ActionAid USA on 23 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Garantir o direito \u00e0 alimenta\u00e7\u00e3o e combater a fome em tempos de coronav\u00edrus\/\u00a0<\/a>Guaranteeing the right to food and fighting hunger in times of coronavirus: life and human dignity first!<\/a>\u00a0(In Portuguese)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

The coronavirus pandemic once again highlights the links between human health and nature, and calls on us to rethink the foundations of our food system. Once again, we face several negative externalities of industrial agriculture that concentrates wealth, degrades, contaminates, fosters the spread of diseases, dehumanizes. It promotes the violation of the rights to land and territory of family farmers, indigenous peoples and traditional peoples and communities that respect nature and produce our food. We are now invited to defend other paradigms of sustainable and more biodiverse production as agroecology proposes.<\/p>\n

Alian\u00e7a pela Alimenta\u00e7\u00e3o Adequada e Saud\u00e1vel on 23 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0PAA – Programa de Aquisi\u00e7\u00e3o de Alimentos: Comida Saud\u00e1vel para o Povo\/PAA – Food Acquisition Programme: Healthy Food for the People<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(In Portuguese)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Consideramos fundamental que as organiza\u00e7\u00f5es da agricultura familiar e da\u00a0economia solid\u00e1ria formalizem aos governos estaduais, municipais e \u00e0 Conab o\u00a0interesse em fornecer alimentos para o PAA. E que os movimentos sociais das\u00a0cidades pressionem os governadores, prefeitos e parlamentares, cobrando a\u00a0efetiva\u00e7\u00e3o do PAA para a garantia do direito aos alimentos saud\u00e1veis e\u00a0diversificados produzidos pela agricultura familiar e camponesa e pelos povos e\u00a0comunidades tradicionais.<\/p>\n

Articula\u00e7\u00e3o National de Agroecologia<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0La alimentaci\u00f3n local, de calidad y sostenible: seguridad frente a los riesgos sanitarios globales\/Local, quality and sustainable food: security in the face of global health risks<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(In Spanish)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Desde la Red de Ciudades por la Agroecolog\u00eda queremos resaltar el papel de las pol\u00edticas alimentarias locales para fortalecer nuestras comunidades frente a crisis como la del COVID-19. Entendemos la alimentaci\u00f3n de calidad y sostenible como un sistema b\u00e1sico y estrat\u00e9gico de aprovisionamiento de nuestras ciudades y pueblos, equiparable al abastecimiento de agua o energ\u00eda. Hoy es m\u00e1s evidente que nunca que debemos cuidar, de forma integral, la salud de las personas y el medio ambiente.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

La Red de Ciudades por la Agroecolog\u00eda in April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty\u00a0proposes \u201cradical\u201d food policies for G20\u2019s COVID-19 action plan<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

An international movement of grassroots groups of small food producers and food sovereignty advocates urged the Group of 20 (G20) major economies to implement \u201cradical\u201d food policy reforms in its joint G20 Action Plan in Response to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

People’s Coalition on Food Sovereignty on 15 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Secure land rights mean resilience for rural communities in Asia in the face of COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Among those rendered most vulnerable during these times are those with insecure land rights. In these circumstances, it becomes clear how land rights are unequivocally tied to the fulfillment of other human rights such as the right to shelter, food, livelihood, and health.<\/p>\n

Asian NGO Coalition for Agrarian Reform and Rural Development (ANGOC) on 12 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0The next harvest is even more important now \u2013 Biovision statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Biovision explains how the situation looks like for the employees after enacting its prepared pandemic plan and for their project partners in sub-Saharan Africa.<\/p>\n

Biovision on 10 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Thunder Bay & Area Food Strategy COVID-19 Statement<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Covid-19 crisis has exposed the lack of resilience in our local food system because of our dependence on imports from outside our community. The \u201cjust-enough, just-in-time\u201d food system and long supply chains dominated by large corporations are fragile at the best of times.\u00a0\u00a0As a network that is focused on the health and well-being of all people involved in our regional food system, the\u00a0Thunder Bay and Area Food Strategy (TBAFS)<\/a>\u00a0is committed to addressing immediate food-related needs along with the underlying concerns about food security, food supply and long-term sustainability.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Community Supported Agriculture is a Safe and Resilient Alternative to Industrial Agriculture in the Time of COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The international campaign we are all engaged in to reduce our tragic losses to the Covid-19 crisis is just a rehearsal for the big campaign that lies ahead \u2013 to preserve and build sustainable local and territorial food systems that connect producers and consumers and provide healthy, nutritious food for all.\u00a0URGENCI\u00a0<\/a>is\u00a0showing the weaknesses and gaps in the global food distribution system.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Rio de Janeiro’s Agroecology Articulation releases letter on alerts and guidelines during the coronavirus pandemic<\/a>\/Articula\u00e7\u00e3o de Agroecologia do Rio de Janeiro divulga carta sobre alertas e orienta\u00e7\u00f5es durante a pandemia do coronav\u00edrus<\/a>\u00a0(In Portuguese)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

A\u00a0Articula\u00e7\u00e3o de Agroecologia do Rio de Janeiro (AARJ)<\/a>\u00a0divulgou na \u00faltima ter\u00e7a-feira (31) uma carta aberta sobre alertas e orienta\u00e7\u00f5es\u00a0 durante a pandemia do COVID-19, o coronav\u00edrus. O documento \u00e9 uma tentativa de visibilizar a produ\u00e7\u00e3o e fomentar a comercializa\u00e7\u00e3o dos produtos de agricultores familiares e agroecol\u00f3gicos do estado, garantindo a soberania e a seguran\u00e7a alimentar durante essa conjuntura.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19:\u00a0 A message from AFSA: Un message de l’AFSA\u00a0(In English and French)<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

African Alliance for Food Sovereignty (AFSA) stands in solidarity with the brothers and sisters in many and diverse constituencies across Africa.<\/p>\n

African Alliance for Food Sovereignty on 1 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0CSM Preliminary messages on COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism for relations with the UN Committee on World Food Security preliminary messages for the CFS Advisory Group and Bureau Meeting on COVID-19 and its impacts on food security and nutrition.<\/p>\n

Civil Society and Indigenous Peoples’ Mechanism on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0COVID-19: Several members of La Via Campesina highlight the vulnerability of peasants and workers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As Corona Virus spreads across countries and continents, several members of La Via Campesina have issued statements highlighting the precarious situation of peasants and migrant workers around the world.<\/p>\n

La Via Campesina on 18 March<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>COVID 19: Urgent support needed for rural poor, migrants, and urban workers says La Via Campesina South Asia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

La Via Campesina South Asia on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Statement by the Regional Secretariat: Coronavirus Pandemic in the Shadow of Capitalist Exploitation and Imperialist Domination of People and Nature<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The Coronavirus pandemic is threatening to truly become a humanitarian disaster at a global scale. It coincides with and exacerbates a multifaceted global crisis: political, economic, social, environmental and climatic.<\/p>\n

North African Network for Food Sovereignty on 25 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0On The COVID-19 Crisis And The People\u2019s Right To Food, Health, Livelihood<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Joint statement of PAN Asia Pacific (PANAP) and People\u2019s Coalition on Food Sovereignty (PCFS)<\/p>\n

PAN Asia Pacific on 16 March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

Resources, practices and experiences to mitigate COVID-19 food crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Insights from Melbourne, Australia during COVID-19: Civil society leading the response to strengthen the city region food system<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Increasing local production and distribution of food within Melbourne\u2019s city region could increase the resilience of the city\u2019s food system to future shocks and stresses, and reduce dependence on more distant sources of food. It could also help to build a stronger circular food economy for the region, making better use of valuable city waste streams to produce food, including recycled water from the city\u2019s water treatment plants and organic waste.<\/p>\n

City Region Food Systems Programmes on 12 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0How Quito’s urban and peri-urban agriculture contributes to the COVID-19 response<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The pandemic has revealed the vulnerability of the world’s essential systems, and the fragility of the socio-ecological order.\u00a0 Without a doubt, COVID-19 is a call to humanity to rethink our highly consumerist, capitalist development model and the ways in which we relate to nature.<\/p>\n

City Region Food Systems Programmes on 11 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Millions forced to choose between hunger or COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers face various issues to continue feeding people but also to find alternative distribution channels for their products. With the closure of markets in many countries and the shift of consumer demand to certain types of products, such as flour and eggs, different initiatives have flourished to support local and small-scale producers. This item of news aims at sharing experiences and inspiring other mountain actors to help them overcome the current challenges.<\/p>\n

GRAIN on 15 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0How to support mountain agriculture during the COVID-19 crisis?\u00a0<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, farmers face various issues to continue feeding people but also to find alternative distribution channels for their products. With the closure of markets in many countries and the shift of consumer demand to certain types of products, such as flour and eggs, different initiatives have flourished to support local and small-scale producers.\u00a0This item of news aims at sharing experiences and inspiring other mountain actors to help them overcome the current challenges.<\/p>\n

European Association of Mountain areas<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Rural responses to the COVID-19 crisis<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This page provides examples of projects and initiatives primarily launched by rural communities in coping with the COVID-19 emergency, supporting rural businesses and fostering solidarity with those more vulnerable in this exceptional situation. It also provides information about European Commission initiatives and actions aimed at alleviating the current difficulties faced by rural Europe.<\/p>\n

European Network for Rural Development<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Responding to COVID-19 Pandemic for Food Security in the Pacific<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

In order to alleviate the impact of COVID-19 on food and nutrition security situation in PICTs, the Pacific Community (SPC), being the regional technical agency, is working with its member countries in developing short to medium term support packages as a direct response to the impacts of COVID-19 dovetailed to specific needs of the members. The main objective is to ensure food and nutrition security for most vulnerable communities and to establish the basis for medium to long term economic recovery needs of countries.<\/p>\n

APIRAS on 8 May 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a02 bold projects bring produce from farmers to consumers<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

When the new coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic forced restaurants to shut down, Filipino farmers were left with no one to sell their harvest to. There was also the logistical problem of transporting the produce from the farms to the cities.\u00a0It was a setback that could have crippled the agriculture industry. Fortunately, two relentless individuals came to the rescue.<\/p>\n

Lifestyle.inquirer.net on 23 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Farmers have their own struggles and their own solutions!<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Shamika Mone gives us a snapshot of how farmers from India, Sri Lanka, Brazil, Philippines, Zambia, Indonesia, South Africa, Uganda, Ghana, and Puerto Rico, are dealing with COVID19. In many cases, demand for organic produce is increasing and farmers are exploring opportunities such as organic pop up stores to reach their customers in times of social distancing and restricted movement.<\/p>\n

Organic Without Borders on 22 April 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Database of the Food for Cities Network discussions on COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This database will be updated regularly to provide an overview of the discussions that are currently taking place on this forum regarding the specific topic of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on urban food systems.\u00a0The Food for Cities Network is a forum of public sector officials (national and local), development practitioners, academia, civil society, private sector, and activists, facilitated by FAO. It started in 2009 to foster dialogue among different actors and share experiences and resources as a community. The aim of the network is to bring food systems into urban planning and to strengthen rural-urban linkages to build a more sustainable city region food system.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0City Region Food Systems in Antananarivo, Madagascar: A sustainable approach to respond to COVID-19 outbreak<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

COVID-19 outbreak has become an opportunity to urge decision-makers to put the CRFS approach into the agenda of priorities to enhance the food system resilience. If well implemented, good practices will be capitalised in favour of a multi-sector food strategy, contributing to a more sustainable, economic and social approach for the benefit of the food system of Antananarivo city region and the whole national territory.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 Response: Let\u2019s Localize Like Never Before<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

List of resources outlining some actions to support local farmers both at the grassroots and at a policy level during this time of crisis as well as some examples of community solidarity being put into action during the pandemic<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0El Ayuntamiento\u00a0 de Valladolid, Espagna apoyar\u00e1 a la producci\u00f3n agroecol\u00f3gica local y de cercan\u00eda\/The City Council of Valladolid, Spain will support local agroecological production<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0(In Spanish)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

El Ayuntamiento de Valladolid\u00a0est\u00e1 trabajando en la promoci\u00f3n de una alimentaci\u00f3n m\u00e1s sana y sostenible de la poblaci\u00f3n vallisoletana, a trav\u00e9s del apoyo a la producci\u00f3n agroecol\u00f3gica local y de cercan\u00eda.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Feeding\u00a0New York –\u00a0The Plan for Keeping the City\u00a0Fed During the COVID-19 Public\u00a0<\/a>Health Crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cFeeding New York\u201d is the City\u2019s plan to feed hungry New Yorkers throughout\u00a0this crisis and protect the security of the food supply chain.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Global food system perspectives on COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

A living, open-access map of experiences, perspectives, opportunities and questions from researchers around the world about the impact of COVID-19 and other health emergencies on food systems, agriculture and nutrition. Developed by the Agriculture, Nutrition and Health (ANH) Academy and its members.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 and our Food Systems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The purpose of the document is to have an understanding of what impacts COVID-19 is having on food systems,\u00a0 locally and globally, and from all different angles (impact on consumers, on producers, small or large, on prices, on retail etc.), as shown by a variety of articles, blogs, expert notes etc.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>Farmers Markets Respond to COVID-19 \u2014 Best Practices, Examples, and Resources<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Compiled information and advice from farmers markets, state associations, health departments and the Centers for Disease Control from\u00a0Farmers Market Coalition<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Corona in Tanzania: Training in hygiene included in organic agriculture courses<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Alexander Wostry head of Sustainable Agriculture Tanzania (SAT) explains in this interview done by Biovision, how they are adapting their training plan to allow them to inform the farmers about the Coronavirus.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Practical Advice on COVID-19:\u00a0Purchase and Distribution of Food<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As an affected area adopts more and more strict epidemic prevention measures or policies, some residents may\u00a0not be able to go out and buy food because of strict isolation measures, and specific groups, such as solitary\u00a0senior citizens, may lack convenient shopping conditions. How do we ensure that everyone has access to a\u00a0stable source of food while obliged to stay at home during this special period?<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0The impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the diets of Hanoi\u2019s urban poor<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The urban poor in Vietnam depends heavily on informal food systems. How will COVID-19 lockdown measures impact their food security and what will be the knock-on effects for daily life?<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0COVID-19 Farmers Market Advocacy Toolkit<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The following tools and information have been created and aggregated to support in advocating for farmers’ markets to remain open during emergency orders related to the COVID-19 pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0The coronavirus lockdowns are making city dwellers realise how crucial urban farms can be in feeding the urban population<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

People, planners and governments should all be rethinking of how land is used in cities. Urban farming can improve food security and nutrition, reduce climate change impacts, and lower stress.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Local government policies to support food access during the COVID-19 pandemic \u2013 an index<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

This index includes formal municipal policies that accelerate, prioritize or facilitate food access during the COVID-19 pandemic and other emergency periods through measures that exceed ordinary non-emergency-time policies; and\/or specifically prioritize health and\/or equity considerations.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0IFPRI Resources and Analyses on COVID-19 (also known as Coronavirus)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

IFPRI is curating a series of analyses from IFPRI researchers and guest contributors on the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on national and global food and nutrition security, poverty, and development. The webpage will continue to be updated with new analyses in the coming weeks and months.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Strat\u00e9gies alimentaires territoriales : les grandes villes font preuve d\u2019ing\u00e9niosit\u00e9 pour soutenir un secteur sous tension\/Territorial food strategies: big cities show ingenuity in sustaining a stressed sector\u00a0(In French)<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Pour faciliter l\u2019\u00e9change de bonnes pratiques entre ses membres,\u00a0France urbaine<\/a>\u00a0a fait circuler une premi\u00e8re note recensant les initiatives mises en place dans les territoires, permettant de r\u00e9pondre \u00e0 des situations d\u2019urgence, notamment en direction des plus pr\u00e9caires.\u00a0Ces initiatives constituent autant d\u2019exemples qui permettent de dupliquer des dispositifs qui fonctionnent et ce, dans un contexte d\u2019urgence.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Food security in Pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

This tool will introduce you to the basic elements of food security and ways in which an influenza pandemic may impact it. You will also find measures that can be taken to prevent, alleviate, and respond to many of a pandemic\u2019s negative consequences on food security.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0How New York City Is Feeding Children on the Front Lines of a Pandemic<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

New York City feeds over 1.1 million kids every day. Now, with public schools shut due to coronavirus, its mission is much harder\u2014and even more important.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>Sustainable Food Cities Digest – food supply, food for vulnerable people, local action and funding<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong>Sustainable Food Cities (SFC)<\/a>\u00a0endeavors to support the official government and public health advice on the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>Manger aux temps de Coronavirus\/Eating in time of Coronavirus – Newsletter of local experiences to address the global pandemic\u00a0(In French)<\/em><\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

As the containment decision was being announced, a group of people and of organizations wanted to capture ad hoc what the coronavirus crisis reveals, disrupts, provokes in the food systems: from our plate to the farms where our food comes from, whether it’s through short circuits and local or distant supply chains. Producers, artisans, food processing companies, convenience stores, supermarkets, transporters….all are being put to the test of an unprecedented crisis, which is leading them to adapt, to find\u00a0solutions, inventing new possibilities. The representatives include research, agricultural and rural development, associations, the social economy, etc.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>List of Resources, Models\/Examples, Funding, And Other Shared Practices In COVID-19 Response<\/a>\u00a0<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future\u2019s\u00a0Food Policy Networks project<\/a>\u00a0has compiled a\u00a0list of resources, models\/examples, funding, and other shared practices in COVID-19 response\u00a0useful for food policy councils and other groups working at the local and state level. The resources focus on:<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0FPCs\u2019 roles of convening, collaborating and communicating about their local food systems (e.g., sharing communications from FPCs about COVID-19, virtual convening resources, data collection tools and examples)<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Food policy recommendations related to COVID-19<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Supporting communities (e.g., mutual aid and healing, emergency food distribution, community gardens, volunteers and food safety, food resiliency)<\/p>\n

\u00b7\u00a0\u00a0Supporting food businesses and workers (e.g., farmers markets, local farms, virtual local food platforms, etc.)<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>COVID-19 and food security resources<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

The Hungry Cities Partnership (HCP)<\/a>\u00a0is an international network of cities and city-based partner organizations which focuses on the relationships between rapid urbanization, informality, inclusive growth and urban food systems in the Global South. The HCP aims to provide solutions to the challenge of building sustainable cities, policies and programs that promote food security in cities. The HCP currently operates in China, India, Jamaica, Kenya, Mexico, Mozambique and South Africa.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>COVID-19 resources by PA Farm Markets, LLC<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

PA Farm Markets, LLC is a membership organization made up of Market managers, owners, and vendors that provide services for the benefit of its members.<\/a><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Resource lists on Food Systems and Nutrition responses<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

Contributing to the coronavirus pandemic response, the\u00a0United Nations System Standing Committee on Nutrition (UNSCN)<\/a>\u00a0has compiled a list of available resources and key readings with a focus on nutrition and food systems. This list will be continually updated and expanded as more resources become available.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Kids\u2019 Hunger Doesn\u2019t Take a Spring Break: While closed for COVID-19, California districts can serve meals over spring break<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

School districts can keep providing their students with healthy meals over the spring break, even while they are closed for safety during the COVID-19 pandemic. Of course, these meals help kids stay healthy and ready to learn when school resumes. They also help families stretch their food budget by offering their children meals free of charge and bring revenue into financially strapped districts. In California, Governor Newsom has made continued noncongregate school meal service on school days a necessary condition of state funding during school closures related to COVID-19.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0$27 Million in grant funding available for farmers markets and local food projects<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

On March 9, 2020\u00a0 USDA\u2019s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced the availability of $27 million in funding for the Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP). FMLFPP has two subprograms \u2013 the Farmers Market Promotion Program (FMPP) and the Local Food Promotion Program (LFPP) \u2013 with a separate Request for Applications (RFA) for each subprogram. Both programs provide grants on a competitive basis for a wide variety of direct-to-consumer and local food marketing projects.<\/p>\n

Multimedia materials: Videos, Audio interviews, Webinars<\/strong><\/h2>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Civil Society and\u00a0<\/a><\/strong>Indigenous Peoples’\u00a0Mechanism\u00a0<\/span><\/strong>Webinar \u201cLearning about the COVID crisis in the Committee on World Food Security\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0CSM<\/a>\u00a0webinar addressed the impact of COVID-19 on food systems and policy responses to it. The panel comprises of speakers from international organizations and the academic and research world, from different regions, and followed by an interactive debate with CFS members and participants.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0A Recipe for Disaster: Globalised food systems, structural inequality and COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Transnational Institute (TNI<\/a>)\u00a0webinar is with Rob Wallace in dialogue with agrarian justice activists from Myanmar, Indonesia, Palestine and Germany. The webinar aims to answer questions like What different circumstances do people around the world face, and how will these impact ongoing struggles for more just food systems and societies? And, by extension, what does this tell us about the kind of resistant and resilient systems we need to build to replace our current food system?<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0<\/strong>How global agriculture grew a pandemic – An interview with biologist Rob Wallace, of the Institute for Global Studies at the University of Minnesota<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The COVID-19 crisis was preventable\u2014if only we\u2019d listened to the epidemiologists sounding the alarm.<\/p>\n

The American Scholar on 13th March 2020<\/em><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Ag2Nut\/ANH Academy Webinar: community discussion on COVID-19 and food systems<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Nutrition and food systems are now more urgent concerns than ever in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. Watch the community discussion webinar on the impacts of COVID-19 on our work.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Young Farmers Talks, COVID-19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Holly Rippon-Butler, Land Access Program Director at the National Young Farmers Coalition, talks about what we need to do to support young farmers in the face of COVID-19. \u201cWe need to make investments for young farmers as a resource for this country,\u201d says Rippon-Butler.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Podcast channel for latest on what farms need to do to manage the many legal ramifications in a pandemic worldwide crisis<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0Roundtable discussion: Food policy councils and COVID- 19<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

As day-to-day operations grind to a halt with the spread of COVID-19, the pandemic threatens to highlight and exacerbate existing inequities in society. On Friday, March 20, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future\u2019s Food Policy Networks project hosted a discussion about how food policy councils can play a key role in connecting efforts among local governments, non-profits, food banks, farmers, schools, and grocery stores to reduce barriers to food access and security; support local food producers, workers, and businesses; and advocate for policies that protect our communities during these uncertain times. Speakers included: Heather Bruskin, Montgomery County Food Council (Maryland) Noel Didla, MS Food Policy Council and MS Food Justice Collaborative Michaela Freiburger, Dubuque County Food Policy Council (Iowa) Dawn Plummer, Pittsburgh Food Policy Council Nessa Richman, Rhode Island Food Policy Council Dana Wood, Safe and Abundant Nutrition Alliance (Colorado)<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Video by prof. Sergio Schneider, from UFRGS, Brazil on the potential of family farming to respond to the food security and nutrition crisis generated by the COVID-19<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

The video analyzes the critical role of family farming to respond to the challenges of food supply and food security in the context of urbanized societies that are facing the challenges generated by the Coronavirus-COVID Crisis19, March 2020.<\/p>\n

\u00a7\u00a0Thriving Farmers Market during a pandemic\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

With most farmers’ markets closing due to the Coronavirus this one in Asheville, NC is thriving. I show you how they made this successful system work with social distancing in place and an honor system payment method.<\/p>\n

Otras Fuentes una muestra<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

What is the impact of COVID-19 disease on agriculture?<\/a><\/p>\n

Capitalist agriculture and Covid-19: A deadly … – GRAIN<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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