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FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme: Asia and the Pacific

Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crisis contexts

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Bangkok, Thailand ;

Pages 4p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Brochure, flyer, fact-sheet

ISBN 978-92-5-133466-9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) The COVID-19 pandemic is having a severe global impact across the world and while some economies have sufficient resources to address their needs, many other countries are not as fortunate. Initial humanitarian support was firmly directed at the health dimensions of the crisis. However, food and nutrition security and associated agriculture and food systems livelihoods have rapidly increased in importance. Some of the most food-insecure countries in the world are in the Asia and Pacific region and these are the central focus of work at the regional level. Attention has been drawn recently to rising levels of acute food insecurity in Afghanistan following a large-scale drought that is concurrent with the pandemic. And this is only one example of the simultaneous and compounding crises that exist in many countries, which is expected to cause further food security deterioration over the coming months. The targeted regional action is built around FAO’s urgent global plan designed to save lives and livelihoods through a coordinated set of critical interventions. This action sheet presents FAO's COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme's key priority area of "Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crisis contexts" in Asia and the Pacific.

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​FAO. 2020. FAO COVID-19 Response and Recovery Programme: Asia and the Pacific – Addressing the impacts of COVID-19 in food crisis contexts. Bangkok.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb1515en

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