Long-term impact of West African food system responses to COVID-19

Zakari Ali; Rosemary Green; Robert B Zougmoré; Siyabusa Mkuhlani; Amanda Palazzo; Andrew M Prentice; Andy Haines; Alan D Dangour; Pauline Fd Scheelbeek

doi:10.1038/s43016-020-00191-8

Long-term impact of West African food system responses to COVID-19

Nat Food. 2020 Dec:1:768-770. doi: 10.1038/s43016-020-00191-8. Epub 2020 Nov 19.

Authors

Zakari Ali¹, Rosemary Green^{2

3}, Robert B Zougmoré^{4

5}, Siyabusa Mkuhlani^{2

3}, Amanda Palazzo⁶, Andrew M Prentice¹, Andy Haines^{2

3}, Alan D Dangour^{2

3}, Pauline Fd Scheelbeek^{2

3}

Affiliations

¹ Nutrition Theme, MRC Unit The Gambia at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, Banjul, The Gambia.
² Faculty of Epidemiology and Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
³ Centre on Climate Change and Planetary Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.
⁴ International Crops Research Institute for the Semi-Arid Tropics (ICRISAT), Research Program, West and Central Africa, Bamako, Mali.
⁵ CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security program (CCAFS), Bamako, Mali.
⁶ International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Laxenburg, Austria.

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact health and livelihoods in West Africa. Exposure of food system fragilities by the pandemic presents the opportunity for regional-specific reforms to deliver healthy diets for all and promote resilience to future shocks.

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