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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetLegal mechanisms to contribute to safe and secured food supply chains in times of COVID-19 2020This brief identifies some of the areas that governments may want to strengthen to build more resilient food supply chains and illustrates how appropriate regulatory frameworks can contribute to ensuring food security and economic development. As such, it contributes to FAO’s Strategic Objectives on enabling inclusive and efficient agricultural and food systems (SO4) and increasing the resilience of livelihoods to disasters (SO5). Further, this brief follows FAO's Legal Office's objective of undertaking research and studies on important and relevant legal topics and provides national governments with expert analysis on the impact of the current emergency on food supply chains and the effective regulatory measures to counter them and build resilience.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetLegal considerations in the context of responses to COVID-19 to mitigate the risk of food insecurity 2020In the wake of the global pandemic, COVID-19, Countries are taking measures to halt its spread. However, such measures can have unintended consequences for food security, namely availability, access, utilization and stability of food supplies at global, national, local levels. Therefore, countries need to know and take into account the human right to food in adopting such measures to safeguard the same in those measures to avoid potential food shortages and disruptions in the supply chain. Therefore, the following legal recommendations should be understood in the context of the legal frameworks that countries already have in place, and as part of governments’ efforts to strengthen emergency preparedness legislation. It is expected that these recommendations will contribute to increasing the resilience of livelihoods to crises of all kinds that poses a threat to food security.
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Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetMitigating risks to food systems during COVID-19
Reducing food loss and waste
2020The COVID-19 pandemic continues to wreak havoc globally, generating significant challenges that could result in risks to food security and nutrition in many countries. Countries are ordering lockdowns, restricting movement and observing physical distancing to curb the pandemic. Disruptions in supply chains resulting from blockages on transport routes, transport restrictions and quarantine measures are resulting in significant increases in food loss and waste, especially of perishable agricultural produce such as fruits and vegetables, fish, meat and dairy products. In addition, labour shortages, owing to the restriction of movement of key stakeholders in production and transport, are significantly impacting food supply and demand owing to food shortages in some markets, further contributing to food loss and to the unnecessary waste of food supplies in these difficult times. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) encourages countries to adopt holistic approaches to tackle food loss and waste reduction, in an effort to facilitate access to food for all and particularly for vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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