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New Corona Virus, Food Security and Identifying Policy Options
(2020) Jock R. Anderson; Latha Nagarajan; Anwar Naseem; Carl E. Pray; Thomas A. Reardon
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.
The Agricultural Innovation System in the Context of the 2020 Pandemic
(2021-02-17) Carl E. Pray; Jock R. Anderson; Samuel Ledermann; Latha Nagarajan
This paper discusses the challenges brought by COVID-19 to the agricultural innovation system (AIS), a key subsystem that helps reduce food insecurity. The AIS is a complex system that includes agricultural research, extension, and education. The paper explores how national and international institutions can work together effectively to tackle the challenges during and after the pandemic and ensure the AIS's capacity to foster productivity in the future. The paper also provides an overview of the pre-COVID-19 agricultural R&D situation, reviews COVID-19 impacts, and discusses policy options for high-income, middle-income, and low-income countries. Failure to ensure the continuing high productivity of the AIS would have dire consequences for food and nutritional security in the coming decades, thus the need for quick adaptation