New Corona Virus, Food Security and Identifying Policy Options

Abstract

Achieving food security for all has long been a major objective in public policy around the world, and even globally as enshrined in the contemporary UN Sustainable Development Goals. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 creates additional challenges to food policy-makers and the paper charts some key elements of response to these challenges.

Keywords

• pandemic
• covid-19
• food security
• supply chains
• policy