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Informal food chains and agrobiodiversity need strengthening—not weakening—to address food security amidst the COVID-19 crisis in South America por Zimmerer, Karl S., Haan, Stef de

“…We conclude that the disruptions triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to use agrobiodiversity as an instrument for resilience in informal food chains.…”
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Impact of climatic, demographic and disease control factors on the transmission dynamics of COVID-19 in large cities worldwide por Metelmann, S., Pattni, K., Brierley, L., Cavalerie, Lisa, Caminade, C., Blagrove, M.S.C., Turner, J., Sharkey, K.J., Baylis, M.

“…Approximately a year into the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 virus, many countries have seen additional “waves” of infections, especially in the temperate northern hemisphere. …”
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FR1.3: Gender-responsive investments and policies in response to the crisis brought about by Russia's war on Ukraine por Ringler, Claudia, Bryan, Elizabeth

“…Following on the heels of the COVID-19 pandemic, the global food crisis resulting from Russia's war on Ukraine is exacerbating existing challenges in many low-income countries, including rising food, fuel, and fertilizer costs. …”
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COVID-19 disruptions and pivoting in SMEs in the hidden middle of Kenya’s potato and fish value chains por Naziri, D., Belton, Ben, Alobo Loison, Sarah, Reardon, Thomas, Shikuku, Kelvin Mashisia, Kaguongo, W., Maina, K., Ogello, E., Obiero, K.

“…Small and medium enterprises (SMEs) in Kenya were severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and restrictions put in place to contain it. …”
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Are digital services the right solution for empowering smallholder farmers? A perspective enlightened by COVID-19 experiences to inform smart IPM por Sekabira, H., Tepa-Yotto, G., Ahouandjinou, A.R., Thunes, K.H., Pittendrigh, B., Kaweesa, Y., Tamò, Manuele

“…The COVID-19 pandemic, surprised many through its impact on the food systems, resulting in collapses in the food production value chains and in the integrated pest disease management sector with fatal outcomes in many places. …”
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Transformation of Rwanda’s agrifood system structure and drivers por Diao, Xinshen, Ellis, Mia, Rosenbach, Gracie, Mugabo, Serge, Pauw, Karl, Spielman, David J., Thurlow, James

“…While the global COVID-19 pandemic had a severe adverse effect on the economy, causing negative GDP growth in 2020, the country rebounded quickly and registered more than 10 percent growth in 2021 (NISR 2022). …”
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Empowering rural women through gender and nutrition education amid the COVID-19 crisis: Evidence from Myanmar's Central Dry Zone por Ragasa, Catherine, Lambrecht, Isabel B., Mahrt, Kristi, Aung, Zin Wai

“…The COVID-19 pandemic had negative impacts on nutrition and strained intrahousehold relations, particularly among poorer households. …”
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Ukraine one year later: Impacts on global food security por Glauber, Joseph W.

“…The world faced the possibility of another food price crisis with potentially devastating consequences, following on the heels of the pandemic’s global economic disruptions.…”
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Using communication to boost vaccination: Lessons for COVID-19 from evaluations of eight large-scale programs to promote routine vaccinations por Kappes, Heather Barry, Toma, Mattie, Balu, Rekha, Burnett, Russ, Chen, Nuole, Johnson, Rebecca, Leight, Jessica, Omer, Saad B., Safran, Elana, Steffel, Mary, Trump, Kris-Stella, Yokum, David, Debroy, Pompa

“…The COVID-19 pandemic has added new urgency to the question of how best to motivate people to get needed vaccines. …”
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COVID-19 and extreme weather: Impacts on food security and migration attitudes in rural Guatemala por Ceballos, Francisco, Hernandez, Manuel A., Paz, Cynthia

“…We find improvements in incomes, food security, and dietary diversity in 2021 relative to 2020, but with levels still below pre-pandemic ones in 2019. We also find a substantial increase in the intention to emigrate that was not observed in the onset of the pandemic. …”
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COVID-19 risks to global food security por Laborde Debucquet, David, Martin, Will, Swinnen, Johan, Vos, Rob

“…As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, trade-offs have emerged between the need to contain the virus and to avoid disastrous economic and food security crises that hurt the world's poor and hungry most. …”
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COVID-19 and the Egyptian economy: From reopening to recovery: Alternative pathways and impacts on sectors, jobs, and households por Breisinger, Clemens, Raouf, Mariam, Wiebelt, Manfred, Kamaly, Ahmed, Karara, Mouchera

“…Although the global economy is forecasted to shrink by 4.4 percent in 2020 (IMF 2020), the Egyptian economy is proving resilient to the immense human and financial costs caused by the global COVID-19 pandemic. This resilience is mainly explained by the successful implementation of the economic reform program since 2016 that provided more fiscal space to withstand the adverse impact of the COVID-19 crisis. …”
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Agri-food trade trends in Papua New Guinea: Reflections on COVID-19 policies and dietary change por Schmidt, Emily, Fang, Peixun

“…The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has presented a unique challenge to governments across the globe, reinforcing the need to improve understanding of domestic and international trade trends to provide more informed options for policy response. …”
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Africa cannot achieve the Malabo Declaration commitments: Statistical impossibility or logical fallacy por Benin, Samuel

“…According to the African Economic Outlook for example, the contribution of agriculture to overall economic growth in Africa has remained stable, especially as growth in the services and industry sectors has been irregular—and even negative in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The latest editions of the Africa Agriculture Trade Monitor, Africa Agriculture Status Report, and Annual Trends and Outlook Report5 also show substantial progress in terms of expansion of agricultural investments, trade, and growth and improvement in poverty and nutrition outcomes, amid challenges associated with the pandemic, climate change, conflicts, and epidemics such as the locust and fall armyworm infestations. …”
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Introduction and executive summary for the supplement micronutrients in Latin America: Current state and research por Soto-Méndez, María J., Boy, Erick

“…It also informed that 3.1 billion people could not afford a healthy diet.2 On the one hand, economic shocks, war, violence, and climate-related disruptions are the leading causes of the current steep increase in the global burden of hunger in all its forms. The COVID-19 pandemic and other repeated pandemic shocks further reduce food and nutrition security of poor countries.3 On the other hand, chronic noncommunicable diseases, most of which are associated with overweight-obesity and unhealthy behavioral and environmental risk factors, continue to rise as the principal causes of death and disability worldwide, also disproportionately impacting LMIC.4 While the prevalence of hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) is lower than the global average, food insecurity affects a higher proportion of the population in the region (40%) relative to the global prevalence (29.3%). …”
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Empowerment unveiled: Gender dynamics and the impact of nutrition-sensitive agriculture interventions among ethnic minority groups in northern Vietnam por Nguyen Thi, Lan Thuy, van den Berg, Marrit, Stomph, TjeerdJan, Nabuuma, Deborah, Kramer, Berber

“…The NSAs improved women's mobility and group membership, yet carried different implications across ethnicities, potentially due to the interaction between the intervention, initial contextual conditions and the COVID-19 pandemic. Nevertheless, NSAs alone cannot achieve structural empowerment. …”
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H7N9 is a virus worth worrying about por Horby, P., Tatem, A.J., Huang, Z., Gilbert, M., Robinson, Timothy P., Wint, G.R.W., Hayden, F.G., Van Vinh Chau, N., Shindo, N., Carson, G., Gao, Z., Hongjie, Y., Hay, S.I., Farrar, J.

“…Or will it, like the H1N1 virus, stably adapt to humans and cause a pandemic? The fine line between foresight and alarmism can only be drawn in retrospect. …”
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Interactions Between Cassava Mosaic Geminiviruses and Their Vector, Bemisia tabaci (Hemiptera: Aleyrodidae) por Boni, S.B., Rugumamu, C.P., Gerling, D., Nokoe, K.S., Legg, James P.

“…Synergistic interactions between B. tabaci and CMGs have been hypothesized as a cause of whitefly “super-abundance,” which has been a key factor behind the spread of the severe CMD pandemic through East and Central Africa. The current study investigated this hypothesis by conducting experiments with CMD-susceptible cassava varieties infected with different CMGs in both the north-western Lake Zone region (pandemic affected) and the eastern Coast Zone where CMD is less severe. …”
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Incidence and severity of cassava mosaic disease in the Republic of Congo por Ntawuruhunga, Pheneas, Okao-Okuja, G., Bembe, A., Obambi, M., Armand Mvila, J.C., Legg, James P.

“…This situation is comparable to that in areas of East Africa affected by a pandemic during the 1990s, including Uganda, parts of western Kenya and north-western Tanzania. …”
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One City in Two Countries por Landstedt, Moa, Ollinen, Carin

“…In March 2020 the COVID-19 pandemic forced national decision-makers to close the border between HaparandaTornio. …”
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