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Early COVID-19 responses in the seafood sector offer crucial lessons for dealing with future shocks in food systems.
New research examines disruptions from COVID-19 to the seafood sector and puts forth evidence-based recommendations for building future resilience in food systems.
17 February, 2021, Penang, MALAYSIA - New research on the impacts of COVID-19 disruptions to a highly globalized seafood sector reveals crucial lessons for making food systems more resilient in the face of future shocks, limiting threats to global food and nutrition security, and their negative impact on livelihoods and local economies.
Published in
Global Food Security, the study outlines a food system resilience ‘action cycle’ framework to explore three central issues: 1) the impact of COVID-19 on seafood systems at different levels; 2) the types of responses and actions to restore critical systems functions; and 3) distil critical learnings from current and past sh