Fire lines as fault lines: increased trade barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic further shatter the global food system

In this opinion piece, we highlight that trade barriers established during COVID-19 as “fire lines” to prevent cross-border transmission of the pandemic could become “fault lines” that demolish the global food system. We review restrictions on both international agricultural exports and imports, esp...

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Autores principales: Chen, Kevin Z., Mao, Rui
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Netherlands 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7342553/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32837641
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01075-2
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description In this opinion piece, we highlight that trade barriers established during COVID-19 as “fire lines” to prevent cross-border transmission of the pandemic could become “fault lines” that demolish the global food system. We review restrictions on both international agricultural exports and imports, especially unilateral border controls such as import refusals and alerts, in previous epidemics and arising with two novel features amid COVID-19. Institutional causes to pervasive trade barriers in epidemics that are embedded in the WHO-WTO coordination scheme have been discussed. In the meantime, discussions on potential economic outcomes and policy recommendations have been provided.
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spelling pubmed-73425532020-07-09 Fire lines as fault lines: increased trade barriers during the COVID-19 pandemic further shatter the global food system Chen, Kevin Z. Mao, Rui Food Secur Letter to the Editor In this opinion piece, we highlight that trade barriers established during COVID-19 as “fire lines” to prevent cross-border transmission of the pandemic could become “fault lines” that demolish the global food system. We review restrictions on both international agricultural exports and imports, especially unilateral border controls such as import refusals and alerts, in previous epidemics and arising with two novel features amid COVID-19. Institutional causes to pervasive trade barriers in epidemics that are embedded in the WHO-WTO coordination scheme have been discussed. In the meantime, discussions on potential economic outcomes and policy recommendations have been provided. Springer Netherlands 2020-07-08 2020 /pmc/articles/PMC7342553/ /pubmed/32837641 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12571-020-01075-2 Text en © International Society for Plant Pathology and Springer Nature B.V. 2020 This article is made available via the PMC Open Access Subset for unrestricted research re-use and secondary analysis in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for the duration of the World Health Organization (WHO) declaration of COVID-19 as a global pandemic.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7342553/
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