Sustaining food security and resilience in Africa in times of COVID-19
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Global Food and Nutrition Securitypermalink: Main URL
date: 27/05/2020 - 27/05/2020
Organiser: Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO)
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With over 60 percent of the African continent’s population in rural areas and dependent on smallholder or family farming, the risk from the COVID-19 pandemic to food supply chains, market access and nutrition is high. Lockdown measures have disrupted internal supply chains halting food production. Locust swarms continue to devastate crops in East Africa.
Join this FAO Brussels Dialogue to discuss how concerted actions, in cooperation with all stakeholders, are needed to ensure food security and nutrition and to enable meeting Africa's commitment to ending hunger by 2025.