27/11/21

面板听到的“完美风暴”为食物崩溃而创造

在市场上出售蔬菜的妇女
在市场上出售蔬菜的妇女。版权:World Bank / Sambrian Mbaabu,,,,CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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  • Covid-19使粮食不安全陷入鲜明的救济
  • 食品价格将近三年 - 粮农组织
  • Value chains, waste, nutrition must be urgently targeted

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Hikes in oil prices, conflicts, emerging diseases, poor governance, and disruption in supply chains due to transportation blockages during the pandemic have come together to create a potentially devastating scenario for the global food system, a panel on food security heard.

“这se have created a perfect storm for global food collapse”, Fan Shenggen, chair of the academy of global food economics and policy at China Agricultural University, told an online panel hosted byscidev.net及其母体组织CABIon Thursday (25 November).

根据联合国粮食和农业组织的每月食品价格指数,自去年同期以来,全球粮食价格上涨了近33%。beplay下载官网西西软件

世界粮食计划据估计,在其运营的国家,由于COVID-19危机的影响,已经有约2.72亿人口或有可能成为急剧不安全的风险。

“我们发现,严重依赖粮食进口的经济体非常脆弱。这适用于大多数非洲国家。”

非洲联盟委员会Afeikhena Jerome

“房间里的大象是我们需要随着需求的增加而改变饮食,” Afeikhena Jerome,农村经济和农业专员特别顾问Afeikhena Jerome。beplay下载官网西西软件非洲联盟委员会在讨论中,埃塞俄比亚的亚的斯亚贝巴说。

我们发现,严重依赖粮食进口的经济体非常脆弱。这适用于大多数非洲国家。”

非洲的网food importbill is expected to grow from US$35 billion in 2015 to over US$110 billion by 2025. “We must promote more sustainable, productive and regenerative agriculture and use the one health approach — plant health, environmental health and human health,” Jerome added.

“这pandemic has provided a really stark indicator of the need for more resilient food systems with fundamental change needed if we’re going to build sustainable systems that can help to address the linked challenges of feeding a growing population, supporting growth and jobs, and protecting our planet from climate change and environmental degradation,” CABI’s chief executive Daniel Elger told the meeting.

Panellists looked at how sound policies and institutional linkages, agricultural innovations and research, investment in infrastructure and technology, and facilitation of information could help mitigate the negative impacts of the pandemic on food security.

巴基斯坦国家粮食安全与研究部顾问兼总干事Tariq Khan表示,通过建立在线交易,数字贸易和在线交付系统,已经创造了更多机会。

Moses Mwale, director of agriculture in Zambia’s Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock, emphasised that monitoring and tracking of food security and nutrition indicators is a vital component of enabling a robust food system.

“这nutrition scenario for Zambia indicates a need for healthier food systems that are critical in the fight against hunger and obesity through a multi-sectoral approach,” he said.

Food waste

Enough food is produced globally to feed everyone, but up to 811 million people went hungry in 2020, according to the UN’s粮食安全与营养报告。Roughly one third of the food produced for human consumption every year — about 1.3 billion tonnes — gets lost or wasted, according to a United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)report

In developing countries, 40 per cent of losses occur at the post-harvest and processing stages while in industrialised countries more than 40 per cent of losses happen at the retail and consumer level, according toUNEP

CABI全球价值连锁和贸易总监Neil Willsher谴责了“价值链中发生的犯罪数量的废物”,并呼吁仔细研究缩短供应链,并在国内生产更多的主食食品,种子和肥料。

This piece was produced by SciDev.Net’s Global desk.