Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown

Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown PDF Author: Researchers of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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The recent sudden imposition of a stringent 21-day lockdown in India in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the food security of many vulnerable Indians. These impacts highlight the many challenges that this kind of anti-COVID intervention can pose in other settings where the labor force is mostly informally employed with poor job security and low wages, and where the agri-food systems is similarly informal with widespread use of open-air markets. Myanmar is such a setting. India’s chastening experience with food security during its lockdown suggests the following actions would be imperative for maintaining food security in Myanmar: • Allow the free movement of all goods. A stable and reliable agri-food system requires free movements of a wide range of food products (including micronutrient-rich fruits, vegetables and animal-sourced foods) as well as essential non-food goods. • Monitor food markets and agricultural value chains as closely as possible to address problems when they do arise. • Reduce risk of COVID-19 contagion by improving hygiene in Myanmar’s food markets. • Issue clear directives to police, military, and local authorities not to impede the movement of goods. The Government of Myanmar should learn from the mistakes made in India and other developing countries. We must recognize that basic food and nutrition security must be maintained at all times through this complex health and socioeconomic crisis.

Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown

Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown PDF Author: Researchers of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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The recent sudden imposition of a stringent 21-day lockdown in India in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic has adversely affected the food security of many vulnerable Indians. These impacts highlight the many challenges that this kind of anti-COVID intervention can pose in other settings where the labor force is mostly informally employed with poor job security and low wages, and where the agri-food systems is similarly informal with widespread use of open-air markets. Myanmar is such a setting. India’s chastening experience with food security during its lockdown suggests the following actions would be imperative for maintaining food security in Myanmar: • Allow the free movement of all goods. A stable and reliable agri-food system requires free movements of a wide range of food products (including micronutrient-rich fruits, vegetables and animal-sourced foods) as well as essential non-food goods. • Monitor food markets and agricultural value chains as closely as possible to address problems when they do arise. • Reduce risk of COVID-19 contagion by improving hygiene in Myanmar’s food markets. • Issue clear directives to police, military, and local authorities not to impede the movement of goods. The Government of Myanmar should learn from the mistakes made in India and other developing countries. We must recognize that basic food and nutrition security must be maintained at all times through this complex health and socioeconomic crisis.

The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on maternal and child malnutrition in Myanmar: What to expect, and how to protect

The impacts of the COVID-19 crisis on maternal and child malnutrition in Myanmar: What to expect, and how to protect PDF Author: Headey, Derek D.
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 15

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The COVID-19 crisis in Myanmar poses a very serious risk to the nutritional status of vulnerable populations, notably women and children, as well as poor urban populations and internally displaced persons. The COVID-19 crisis will hit vulnerable groups through multiple mechanisms.

Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown [in Burmese]

Maintaining food and nutrition security in Myanmar during the COVID-19 crisis: Lessons from India’s lockdown [in Burmese] PDF Author: Researchers of International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI)
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN:
Category : Political Science
Languages : my
Pages : 9

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COVID-19ကမ􀈪ာ့ကပ်ေရာဂါကာလအတွင်း မ􀆭ကာေသးမီက အိ􀇳􀈤ိယ􀇳ိုင်ငံတွင် ၂၁ရက်􀆭ကာ တင်း􀆭ကပ်ေသာ ပိတ်ဆို့ကန့်သတ်မ􀋪 (lockdown)ကို 􀇸ုတ်တရက်ချမှတ်ခဲ့ြခင်းသည် ထိခိုက်လွယ်သည့် များစွာေသာ အိ􀇳􀈤ိယ􀇳ိုင်ငံသားများ၏ အစားအစာဖူလံုမ􀋪ကို ဆိုးကျိုးများ ြဖစ်ေပါ်ေစခဲ့ပါသည်။ လုပ်သားအများစုသည် မေရရာေသာ လုပ်ခနည်းသည့် ကျပမ်းအလုပ်လုပ်ကိုင်သူများြဖစ်􀆱ပီး လဟာြပင်ေစျး များကိုသာ ကျယ်ကျယ်ြပန့်ြပန့် အသံုးြပုလျက်􀇹ှိသည့် စနစ်ြဖင့်ချုပ်ကိုင်ထားမ􀋪နည်းေသာ(informal) အစားအစာစိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ်ေရး စနစ်􀇹ှိသည့် ေနာက်ခံဝန်းကျင်များတွင် အစိုးရ၏ ထိုသို့ေသာ COVID-19ကာကွယ်ေရးလုပ်ငန်းများသည် စိန်ေခါ်မ􀋪များစွာ ြဖစ်ေစ􀇳ိုင်ေ􀆭ကာင်း အိ􀇳􀈤ိယမှြဖစ်ရပ်များက မီးေမာင်းထိုးြပေနပါသည်။ ြမန်မာ􀇳ိုင်ငံသည် ထိုသို့ေသာေနာက်ခံဝန်းကျင်􀇹ှိသည့် 􀇳ိုင်ငံတစ်􀇳ိုင်ငံ ြဖစ်ပါသည်။ အိ􀇳􀈤ိယ၏lockdownကာလအတွင်း စားနပ်ရိက􀈓ာဖူလံုေရး􀇳ှင့်ပတ်သတ်သည့် ချို􀋺ယွင်းချက်များစွာ􀇹ှိခဲ့ေသာ အေတွ􀋺အ􀆭ကံုက ြမန်မာ􀇳ိုင်ငံ၏ အစားအစာဖူလံုမ􀋪ကိုထိန်းသိမ်းရန်အတွက် ေအာက်ပါလုပ်ငန်းများသည် အ လွန်အ ေရး􀆳ကီးေ􀆭ကာင်း အ􀆭ကံုြပုေနပါသည်။ • ကုန်စည်အမျိုးအစားအားလံုးအား လွပ်လပ်စွာ စီးဆင်းခွင့်ေပးြခင်း- တည်􀆱ငိမ်ေသာ အစားအစာစိုက်ပျိုးထုတ်လုပ် ေရးစနစ်သည် အစားအစာအမျိုးအမည်အစံု (အနည်းလိုအာဟာရများ􀇤ကယ်ဝသည့် သစ်သီးဝလံများ၊ ဟင်းသီးဟင်းရွက်များ၊ တိရစ􀈘ာန်များမှရေသာ အစားအစာများ အပါအဝင်)􀇳ှင့်အတူ မ􀇹ှိမြဖစ်လိုအပ်ေသာ စားစရာမဟုတ်သည့်ကုန်စည်များပါ လွပ်လပ်စွာ စီးဆင်းမ􀋪􀇹ှိေစရန် လိုအပ် ပါသည်။ • ြပဿနာများေပါ်ေပါက်လာပါက ၎င်းတို့ကိုေြဖ􀇹ှင်း􀇳ိုင်ရန် အစားအစာေစျးကွက်များ􀇳ှင့် တန်ဖိုးကွင်းဆက်များကို ြဖစ်􀇳ိုင်သမ􀈂 နီးကပ်စွာ ေစာင့်􀆭ကည့်ြခင်း • ြမန်မာ􀇳ိုင်ငံအတွင်း􀇹ှိ အစားအစာေရာင်းချသည့်ေစျးများတွင် သန့်􀇹ှင်းမ􀋪ကိုြမ􀋁င့်တင်ြခင်းြဖင့် COVID-19ပျံ􀋺􀇳ှံ့􀇳ိုင်မ􀋪အ􀇳􀈢ရာယ်ကို ေလ􀈂ာ့ချ ြခင်း • ကုန်စည်စီးဆင်းမ􀋪ကို မတားဆီးေစရန် ရဲ၊စစ်တပ်􀇳ှင့်အြခားေဒသအာဏာပိုင်များသို့ 􀇹ှင်းလင်းေသာ 􀇷􀈄န်􀆭ကားချက်များ ထုတ်ြပန် ထားြခင်း ြမန်မာအစိုးရသည် ဤ􀇸􀋪ပ်ေထွးေသာ ကျန်းမာေရး􀇳ှင့်လူမ􀋪စီးပွားေရးအကျပ်အတည်းကာလတေလ􀈂ာက် အချိန်တိုင်းတွင် အေြခခံအစားအစာ􀇳ှင့်အာဟာရဖူလံုမ􀋪ကို ထိန်းသိမ်းရမည်ြဖစ်ေ􀆭ကာင်း အိ􀇳􀈤ိယ􀇳ှင့်အြခားဖွံ􀋺􀆱ဖိုးဆဲ􀇳ိုင်ငံများ၏ အမှားအယွင်းများမှ သင်ခန်းစာရယူသင့်ပါသည်။

Global Trends 2040

Global Trends 2040 PDF Author: National Intelligence Council
Publisher: Cosimo Reports
ISBN: 9781646794973
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 158

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"The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic marks the most significant, singular global disruption since World War II, with health, economic, political, and security implications that will ripple for years to come." -Global Trends 2040 (2021) Global Trends 2040-A More Contested World (2021), released by the US National Intelligence Council, is the latest report in its series of reports starting in 1997 about megatrends and the world's future. This report, strongly influenced by the COVID-19 pandemic, paints a bleak picture of the future and describes a contested, fragmented and turbulent world. It specifically discusses the four main trends that will shape tomorrow's world: - Demographics-by 2040, 1.4 billion people will be added mostly in Africa and South Asia. - Economics-increased government debt and concentrated economic power will escalate problems for the poor and middleclass. - Climate-a hotter world will increase water, food, and health insecurity. - Technology-the emergence of new technologies could both solve and cause problems for human life. Students of trends, policymakers, entrepreneurs, academics, journalists and anyone eager for a glimpse into the next decades, will find this report, with colored graphs, essential reading.

COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later

COVID-19 and global food security: Two years later PDF Author: McDermott, John
Publisher: Intl Food Policy Res Inst
ISBN: 0896294226
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200

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Two years after the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, the health, economic, and social disruptions caused by this global crisis continue to evolve. The impacts of the pandemic are likely to endure for years to come, with poor, marginalized, and vulnerable groups the most affected. In COVID-19 & Global Food Security: Two Years Later, the editors bring together contributions from new IFPRI research, blogs, and the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub to examine the pandemic’s effects on poverty, food security, nutrition, and health around the world. This volume presents key lessons learned on food security and food system resilience in 2020 and 2021 and assesses the effectiveness of policy responses to the crisis. Looking forward, the authors consider how the pandemic experience can inform both recovery and longer-term efforts to build more resilient food systems.

Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting

Animal Sourced Foods and Child Stunting PDF Author: Derek Headey
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Standing up for a Sustainable World

Standing up for a Sustainable World PDF Author: Claude Henry
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN: 1800371780
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 496

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The world has witnessed extraordinary economic growth, poverty reduction and increased life expectancy and population since the end of WWII, but it has occurred at the expense of undermining life support systems on Earth and subjecting future generations to the real risk of destabilising the planet. This timely book exposes and explores this colossal environmental cost and the dangerous position the world is now in. Standing up for a Sustainable World is written by and about key individuals who have not only understood the threats to our planet, but also become witness to them and confronted them.

Non-traditional Security In The Asia-pacific: A Decade Of Perspectives

Non-traditional Security In The Asia-pacific: A Decade Of Perspectives PDF Author: Alistair Cook
Publisher: World Scientific
ISBN: 9811224447
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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What is Non-Traditional Security? How have our understandings of security changed over the past decade? What are the dominant non-traditional security challenges we face in the world today?The concept of national security remains contested but our understanding of it continues to evolve as it is shaped by the world around us. From a globally dominant 'traditional' understanding of security during the Cold War characterised by a focus on countries and their militaries protecting their sovereignty to today, where non-military threats such as global pandemics, climate change, energy, to disasters threaten the wellbeing and livelihoods of people, communities, and the environment that form the backbone of society.The global dial has shifted towards a more comprehensive understanding of security that recognises these non-traditional security threats moving the focus away from solely the survival of the state to the empowerment and protection of people and the environment. This shift highlights the experiences of different individuals and communities, from civilians affected by war to irregular migrants moving from one place to the next, and what the world witnesses as efforts to empower and protect people and the environment.Indeed, comprehensive security has a long history in the post-colonial Asia-Pacific. Non-Traditional Security emerged after the 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. It emerged as a way to recalibrate the ways governments engaged people and communities and developed pathways for countries in the region to cooperate.Non-Traditional Security in the Asia-Pacific: A Decade of Perspectives, an interdisciplinary collection, is essential reading for anyone interested in the developments of security with a focus on the dominant non-traditional security threats in the Asia-Pacific over the last decade — from advanced undergraduates, graduate students, and scholars, to policymakers at the local, national, regional, and international levels.

Development Co-operation Report 2020 Learning from Crises, Building Resilience

Development Co-operation Report 2020 Learning from Crises, Building Resilience PDF Author: OECD
Publisher: OECD Publishing
ISBN: 9264481311
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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The devastating impacts of coronavirus (COVID-19) on developing countries have tested the limits, ingenuity and flexibility of development co-operation while also uncovering best practices. This 58th edition of the Development Co-operation Report draws out early insights from leaders, OECD members, experts and civil society on the implications of coronavirus (COVID-19) for global solidarity and international co-operation for development in 2021 and beyond.

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia

COVID-19 in Southeast Asia PDF Author: Hyun Bang Shin
Publisher: LSE Press
ISBN: 1909890774
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 342

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COVID-19 has presented huge challenges to governments, businesses, civil societies, and people from all walks of life, but its impact has been highly variegated, affecting society in multiple negative ways, with uneven geographical and socioeconomic patterns. The crisis revealed existing contradictions and inequalities in society, compelling us to question what it means to return to “normal” and what insights can be gleaned from Southeast Asia for thinking about a post-pandemic world. In this regard, this edited volume collects the informed views of an ensemble of social scientists – area studies, development studies, and legal scholars; anthropologists, architects, economists, geographers, planners, sociologists, and urbanists; representing academic institutions, activist and charitable organisations, policy and research institutes, and areas of professional practice – who recognise the necessity of critical commentary and engaged scholarship. These contributions represent a wide-ranging set of views, collectively producing a compilation of reflections on the following three themes in particular: (1) Urbanisation, digital infrastructures, economies, and the environment; (2) Migrants, (im)mobilities, and borders; and (3) Collective action, communities, and mutual action. Overall, this edited volume first aims to speak from a situated position in relevant debates to challenge knowledge about the pandemic that has assigned selective and inequitable visibility to issues, people, or places, or which through its inferential or interpretive capacity has worked to set social expectations or assign validity to certain interventions with a bearing on the pandemic’s course and the future it has foretold. Second, it aims to advance or renew understandings of social challenges, risks, or inequities that were already in place, and which, without further or better action, are to be features of our “post-pandemic world” as well. This volume also contributes to the ongoing efforts to de-centre and decolonise knowledge production. It endeavours to help secure a place within these debates for a region that was among the first outside of East Asia to be forced to contend with COVID-19 in a substantial way and which has evinced a marked and instructive diversity and dynamism in its fortunes.