New Corona Virus, Food Security and Identifying Policy Options

Jock R. Anderson; Latha Nagarajan; Anwar Naseem; Carl E. Pray; Thomas A. Reardon

doi:10.53098/wir.2020.4.189/05

Authors

Jock R. Anderson Jock R. Anderson, PhD, Emeritus Professor University of New England, DEc, Research Associate, Rutgers University, 226 Hillsboro Drv, Silver Spring, MD 20902, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4562-6077
Latha Nagarajan Latha Nagarajan, PhD, Senior Economist, International Fertilizer Development Center (IFDC), P.O. Box 2040, Muscle Shoals, AL, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4516-0772
Anwar Naseem Anwar Naseem, PhD, Associate Research Professor, Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3394-8116
Carl E. Pray Carl E. Pray, PhD, Distinguished Professor, Department of Agriculture, Food and Resource Economics, Rutgers University, 55 Dudley Road, New Brunswick, NJ, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1332-8016
Thomas A. Reardon Thomas A. Reardon, PhD, Distinguished Faculty, Department of Agricultural, Food and Resource Economics, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7374-1799

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53098/wir.2020.4.189/05

Keywords:

pandemic, COVID-19, food security, supply chains, policy

Abstract

Achieving food security for all has long been a major objective in public policy around the world, and even globally as enshrined in the contemporary UN Sustainable Development Goals. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 creates additional challenges to food policy-makers and the paper charts some key elements of response to these challenges.

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