{"id":12014,"date":"2021-01-25T09:38:52","date_gmt":"2021-01-25T06:38:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/africasustainabilitymatters.com\/?p=12014"},"modified":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","modified_gmt":"2026-01-11T05:31:24","slug":"why-healthy-food-and-its-local-production-should-be-part-of-the-covid-19-response","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/2021\/01\/25\/why-healthy-food-and-its-local-production-should-be-part-of-the-covid-19-response\/","title":{"rendered":"Why healthy food and its local production should be part of the COVID-19 response"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response priorities for governments and households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Food is central to both sets of questions. On the one hand, access to sufficient, nutritious food is threatened. On the other, focusing on food offers promising pandemic response options.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Reports from various countries highlight&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.worldbank.org\/en\/topic\/agriculture\/brief\/food-security-and-covid-19\">concerns<\/a>&nbsp;about the impact of COVID-19 and pandemic response measures on food supplies, whether due to shortages, price rises or cash constraints. Even in rich countries, anxiety about possible shortages has led to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/expert-how-to-stockpile-healthy-food-14-day-coronavirus-quarantine-2020-2\">stockpiling<\/a>, while large-scale job losses are leaving many worried about their&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ucdavis.edu\/food\/news\/is-food-supply-strong-enough-to-weather-covid-19-pandemic\">capacity to afford food<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In some developing countries, the spectre of hunger looms. In July 2020,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oxfam.org\/en\/research\/hunger-virus-how-covid-19-fuelling-hunger-hungry-world\">Oxfam<\/a>\u00a0reported that COVID-19 was deepening hunger in existing hotspots while creating new hotspots. It also suggested the pandemic could be \u201cthe final straw\u201d for many. Those in the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/how-to-ensure-poor-people-in-africas-cities-can-still-get-food-during-lockdowns-136297\">informal economy<\/a>\u00a0are among the hardest hit, particularly people living in urban areas who use most of their daily income to buy food. <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/why-healthy-food-and-its-local-production-should-be-part-of-the-covid-19-response-150906\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When a pandemic hits, questions that immediately arise include what impact there will be on public health, the economy and other aspects of society. Another set of questions involves response&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":12015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","pagelayer_contact_templates":[],"_pagelayer_content":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12014\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rayscohosting.best\/ASM\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}