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COVID-19 Resources Library

Please find below resources dedicated to the COVID-19 pandemic, its impacts on food security, global agriculture and rural development.

We will be expanding this section. We encourage our members to share information that can help our community and everyone interested to get information about the situation and learn about the ways of adapting our programs for moving forward.

United States Agency for International Development (USAID) has put out resources for implementing partners and information on the Agency's response to COVID-19: 
https://www.usaid.gov/coronavirus 

United Nations Sustainable Development has put out a statement with recommendations on how to ensure food security in the era of COVID-19: https://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2020/04/ensuring-food-security-covid-19/

World Food Programme (WFP) is adapting its planning to ensure that over 85 mln people continue receiving emergency food assistance. Progress reports can be found here: https://www.wfp.org/emergencies/covid-19-pandemic

The Global Report on Food Crises has been recently released by a network of sixteen partner organizations and tracks numbers and locations of acutely food-insecure people: https://www.fsinplatform.org/global-report-food-crises-2020 

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (UNFAO) has a number of resources such as food policy warnings and updates, crop calendars and other data available on their website: http://www.fao.org/2019-ncov/en/

Tom Heilandt, Secretary of Codex Alimentarius, has contributed a blog post on the effects of COVID-19 on food safety: http://www.aiard.org/aiardblog/covid-19-and-food-safety-reflections

Several AIARD members have recently written a blog post: 8 PRACTICES TO MINIMIZE THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON AGRICULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AND FOOD SECURITY 

International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) has a collection of resources dedicated to COVID-19: 
https://www.ifpri.org/covid-19

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The Brookings Institution has a blog post discussing South Africa's plan on opening up the country and touches upon several other countries in the region and challenges they are facing that could affect post-pandemic recovery: https://www.brookings.edu/blog/africa-in-focus/2020/04/25/africa-in-the-news-south-africa-looks-to-open-up-covid-19-complicates-food-security-malaria-response/

Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) is continuously putting updates regarding COVID-19 and food security: https://www.csis.org/programs/global-food-security-program/covid-19-and-food-security

Food security and Canada's agricultural system challenged by COVID-19 by B. James Deaton & Brady J. Deaton:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/cjag.12227
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    • Mission & Objectives
    • Officers and Committee Chairs
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    • COVID-19 Resources Library
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    • News
    • Partner Publications
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    • Virtual AIARD Week 2021 >
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      • 2021 Sponsors
    • AIARD FLF Webinar Series
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        • 2020 Sponsors
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