COVID-19
Stay up to date on the impacts of COVID-19 on the right to food.
“PHOTOS: Brazilian Farmers Hatch A Plan To Send Healthy Food To The Favelas”
PATRÍCIA MONTEIRO | NPR| 24 May 2020 – In Brazil’s favelas, poor urban neighborhoods where residents live in crowded homes and lack basic sanitation, the toll of the coronavirus is expected to be brutal. The informal jobs that sustain 39 million Brazilians, such as selling street food or working temporary construction gigs, are also victims of the stay-at-home order, which started in mid-March. For some in these sprawling settlements, hunger is a threat as real as COVID-19.
Interview with Hilal Elver on COVID-19 (in Turkish)
“Is food security a greater danger than the virus?”
Hilal Elver | FikirTuru| 29 April 2020 (in Turkish)–Covid-19 brought with it many conspiracy theories, but thinking about how far these days when food and nutritional security is compromised by this virus can be almost a horror movie scenario. Of course, if we are aware of the fact that the food and nutrition assurance meant here is a matter far beyond stocking food for a few months, we will be closed at home… And if the coronavirus will remain with us for long enough to affect the next harvest season or seasons… But I must mention immediately; Covid-19’s way to prevent food panic […]
FIAN International: Impact of COVID-19 on the Human Right to Food and Nutrition Preliminary monitoring report
This document presents FIAN International’s preliminary analysis of the impact of COVID-19 and the measures taken by governments around the world to contain the pandemic on the human right to food and nutrition (HRtFN). It is the result of a collective effort to monitor developments around the world over the last two weeks, and it is based on our mandate to support grassroots communities and social movements in their struggles to assert their rights. This analysis is preliminary and does not reflect everything that is taking place around the world.
Video: Special Rapporteur on Right to Food Hilal Elver Talks COVID-19
“WFP Chief warns of hunger pandemic as COVID-19 spreads (Statement to UN Security Council)”
Transcript as delivered of remarks by David Beasley, UN World Food Programme (WFP) Executive Director to today’s virtual session of the UN Security Council on the Maintenance of International Peace and Security: Protecting Civilians Affected by Conflict-Induced Hunger NEW YORK – Forgive me for speaking bluntly, but I’d like to lay out for you very clearly what the world is facing at this very moment. At the same time while dealing with a COVID-19 pandemic, we are also on the brink of a hunger pandemic. In my conversations with world leaders over the past many months, before the Coronavirus even […]
Coronavirus Food Systems Media Articles and Other
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” COVID-19 requires gender-equal responses to save economies”
Isabelle Durant, Deputy Secretary-General, and Pamela Coke-Hamilton, Director, Division on International Trade and Commodities | UNCTAD – The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic is not gender neutral, as it affects men and women differently. Therefore, we must not be gender blind in our responses to the pandemic, or else women will carry a disproportionately higher economic cost than men. Globally, women are more vulnerable to economic shocks wrought by crises such as the coronavirus pandemic. Why are women so at risk? Firstly, women are more likely to lose their jobs than men. In many countries, women’s participation in the labour market […]
Gender and Data Resources Related to COVID-19
With the help of its partners and friends, Data2X has compiled a running list of resources and current reporting on gender and gender data as they relate to COVID19 preparedness and response around the world, including the current and anticipated impacts of the pandemic. This list is not exhaustive and intended for all to use. Access this resource HERE.