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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme 2020The COVID-19 pandemic is jeopardizing human health and disrupting the food systems that are the foundations of health. Unless we take immediate action, we could face a global food emergency of severity and scale unseen for more than half a century. FAO is calling for USD 1.2 billion in initial investments to finance FAO’s COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme that aims to provide an agile and coordinated global response to ensure nutritious food for all both during and after the pandemic. The COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme enables donors to leverage the Organization’s convening power, real-time data, early warning systems and technical expertise to direct support where and when it is needed most. It spans seven key priority areas: 1. Global Humanitarian Response Plan 2. Data for decision-making 3. Economic inclusion and social protection to reduce poverty 4. Trade and food safety standards 5. Boosting smallholder resilience for recovery 6. Preventing the next zoonotic pandemic 7. Food systems transformation This brochure presents the COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme and invites a broad range of partnerships, including both new and renewed partnerships with FAO Members, other governments, the private sector, civil society, academia and cooperatives.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme: Asia and the Pacific
Data for decision-making
2020Also available in:
No results found.In the fight to contain the COVID-19 pandemic, while mitigating the adverse impacts of containment measures, decision-makers require timely and quality data to inform their decisions. Data-driven systems help identify impacts on the most vulnerable populations and shape analytical insights that enable effective responses. These include real-time daily information on COVID-19 incidence and mortality, current border restrictions, and food price changes; online dashboards and geomaps that make data freely available using open data approaches; and analyses, including research papers, policy briefs, and newspaper articles that help explain important socio-economic trends. Providing better data for decision-making rests on three pillars. The first requires better data, the second requires better access to these data and the third requires using the data for regular and timely analyses that generate evidence that guides decision-making. This action sheet presents FAO's COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme's key priority area of "Data for decision-making" for Asia and the Pacific. -
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetFood safety guidelines: Keeping workers safe along the food supply chain in acutely food insecure contexts
Webinar – 30 June 2021: Summary points, questions and answers
2021Also available in:
No results found.Keeping food and food workers safe is even more complex during a global pandemic crisis and all stakeholders must contribute to maintaining 360 degree oversight of every aspect of the food supply chain. Workers in the food supply chain play an indispensable role in sustaining the movement of food along the supply chain. Therefore, keeping workers, production facilities, transport infrastructure and all other areas in the supply chain safe, is critical for mitigating the impacts of this unprecedented COVID-19 crisis. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), in a longstanding partnership with the World Health Organization (WHO), is involved in a range of initiatives to support global food safety and protect the health of both consumers and workers. As part of the comprehensive COVID-19 response and recovery programme, FAO and its partners are working to prevent the pandemic from disrupting food systems. While COVID-19 is not transmitted by food products, disruptions precipitated by the primary and secondary effects of the pandemic have put food supplies at risk all over the world, while simultaneously raising awareness on food safety-related issues. Concerted efforts on the food supply chain and more specifically the health and safety of workers, will help the most food insecure countries mitigate the socio-economic impacts of the pandemic and boost resilience for the long term by facilitating food and agricultural trade, preventing the spreading of any future zoonotic pandemic and helping the transition of the food systems towards sustainability. FAO, in the publication "Food safety in the time of COVID-19", provides sound principles of environmental sanitation, personal hygiene and established food safety practices to reduce the likelihood that harmful pathogens will threaten the safety of the food supply. Additionally, component IV of FAO’s COVID-19 Global Humanitarian Response Plan is supporting awareness raising and sensitization campaigns among food workers at all levels. Against this background, the webinar aimed at bringing together an array of diverse partners and experts to discuss issues surrounding occupational health and safety risks along the food supply chain. The discussion focused on food safety guidelines as well as the experiences and learnings from different contexts among the most acutely food insecure countries.
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