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By Jack Ryan, Partnerships Officer, Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition

COVID-19 and food systems: rebuilding for resilience

26 May 2021

The Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition recently produced a brief for the Scientific Group of the UN Food Systems Summit, ‘COVID-19 and Food Systems: Rebuilding for Resilience’. This paper makes clear that while food systems urgently need to be transformed to better support both human and planetary health, transformed food systems must also be resilient to future shocks.

Read the full commentary piece on medium.com.

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COVID-19 and food systems: rebuilding for resilience

UN Special Envoy calls for a focus on food at next climate talks to limit global heating and prevent future famines

Madagascar could be experiencing world’s first ‘climate-induced famine,’ as farmers across Africa try to adapt

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