The COVID-19 pandemic placed unprecedented short-term stresses on food supply chains around the world. However, rapid … outbreak of COVID-19, food systems were faced with a formidable “triple challenge” of simultaneously providing food security … and nutrition to a growing global population, ensuring the livelihoods of millions of people working along the food chain …

opportunities to increase income and jobs through increasing agro-food sector participation in global and domestic value chains …. Countries can enhance the overall competitiveness of their agro-food sectors though more open trade policies and reducing the …, including to agro-food imports; ensuring that non-tariff measures are appropriate, transparent, and science-based; and reducing …

during the global food price crisis of 2007-08, the COVID-19 pandemic, and following Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine …

Early in the COVID-19 outbreak, there were concerns that the health crisis would develop into a large-scale food crisis … similar to the 2007-08 food price crisis, when panic buying and counterproductive policies exacerbated initial supply … disruptions. While food supply chains have seen disruptions, and there are future risks that require attention, a food price …