How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system

The global food system faces major risks and threats that can cause massive economic loss; dislocation of food supply chains; and welfare loss of producers, consumers, and other food system actors. The interrelated nature of the system has highlighted the complexity of risks. Climate change, extreme...

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Main Authors: Fan, Shenggen, Cho, Emily EunYoung, Meng, Ting, Rue, Christopher
Format: Journal Article
Language:Inglés
Published: Annual Reviews 2021
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Online Access:https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142344
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Meng, Ting
Rue, Christopher
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description The global food system faces major risks and threats that can cause massive economic loss; dislocation of food supply chains; and welfare loss of producers, consumers, and other food system actors. The interrelated nature of the system has highlighted the complexity of risks. Climate change, extreme weather events, and degradation and depletion of natural resources, including water, arable, forestry, and pastural lands, loss of biodiversity, emerging diseases, trade chokepoints and disruptions, macroeconomic shocks, and conflicts, can each seriously disrupt the system. Coincidence of these risks can compound the effects on global food security and nutrition. Smallholder farmers, rural migrants, women, youth, children, low-income populations, and other disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exemplifies a perfect storm of coincidental risks. This article reviews major risks that most significantly impact food systems and highlights the importance of prospects for coincidence of risks. We present pathways to de-risk food systems and a way forward to ensure healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems.
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spelling CGSpace1423442024-10-25T07:55:35Z How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system Fan, Shenggen Cho, Emily EunYoung Meng, Ting Rue, Christopher nutrition trade food security risk food prices diet food systems storms climate change The global food system faces major risks and threats that can cause massive economic loss; dislocation of food supply chains; and welfare loss of producers, consumers, and other food system actors. The interrelated nature of the system has highlighted the complexity of risks. Climate change, extreme weather events, and degradation and depletion of natural resources, including water, arable, forestry, and pastural lands, loss of biodiversity, emerging diseases, trade chokepoints and disruptions, macroeconomic shocks, and conflicts, can each seriously disrupt the system. Coincidence of these risks can compound the effects on global food security and nutrition. Smallholder farmers, rural migrants, women, youth, children, low-income populations, and other disadvantaged groups are particularly vulnerable. The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic exemplifies a perfect storm of coincidental risks. This article reviews major risks that most significantly impact food systems and highlights the importance of prospects for coincidence of risks. We present pathways to de-risk food systems and a way forward to ensure healthy, sustainable, inclusive, and resilient food systems. 2021-10-01 2024-05-22T12:10:21Z 2024-05-22T12:10:21Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142344 en Open Access Annual Reviews Fan, Shenggen; Cho, Emily EunYoung; Meng, Ting; and Rue, Christopher. 2021. How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 46: 601-623. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-012220-020844
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Rue, Christopher
How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title_full How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title_fullStr How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title_full_unstemmed How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title_short How to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
title_sort how to prevent and cope with coincidence of risks to the global food system
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trade
food security
risk
food prices
diet
food systems
storms
climate change
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