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Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era

The impact of COVID-19 on food security can best be understood from the downturn on agricultural and other related economic activities which were almost brought to a total halt during the pandemic. The restriction of movement/lockdown policy instituted by various governments heavily affected local a...

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Autores principales: Ejeromedoghene, O., Tesi, J.N., Uyanga, V.A., Adebayo, A.O., Nwosisi, M.C., Tesi, G.O., Akinyeye, R.O.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33015275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100600
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author Ejeromedoghene, O.
Tesi, J.N.
Uyanga, V.A.
Adebayo, A.O.
Nwosisi, M.C.
Tesi, G.O.
Akinyeye, R.O.
author_facet Ejeromedoghene, O.
Tesi, J.N.
Uyanga, V.A.
Adebayo, A.O.
Nwosisi, M.C.
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description The impact of COVID-19 on food security can best be understood from the downturn on agricultural and other related economic activities which were almost brought to a total halt during the pandemic. The restriction of movement/lockdown policy instituted by various governments heavily affected local and national food production as farmers could not go to their farmlands. More so, there was price gouging on raw food items as local farmers were reducing cultivation and harvest because of their safety. The lockdown also affected the transportation of food products from farms and local companies to the market and across inter-state/province borders. Additionally, many human infections traceable to disease outbreak from animal origin suggest a great risk of exposure to infectious agents by live animal farmers. In combating this menace, local food production needs to be encouraged more, while measures should be put in place to facilitate farmer's participation in government regulations on enforcing biosecurity, health standards, disease monitoring, and surveillance practices.
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spelling pubmed-75235162020-09-30 Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era Ejeromedoghene, O. Tesi, J.N. Uyanga, V.A. Adebayo, A.O. Nwosisi, M.C. Tesi, G.O. Akinyeye, R.O. Ethics Med Public Health Commentary The impact of COVID-19 on food security can best be understood from the downturn on agricultural and other related economic activities which were almost brought to a total halt during the pandemic. The restriction of movement/lockdown policy instituted by various governments heavily affected local and national food production as farmers could not go to their farmlands. More so, there was price gouging on raw food items as local farmers were reducing cultivation and harvest because of their safety. The lockdown also affected the transportation of food products from farms and local companies to the market and across inter-state/province borders. Additionally, many human infections traceable to disease outbreak from animal origin suggest a great risk of exposure to infectious agents by live animal farmers. In combating this menace, local food production needs to be encouraged more, while measures should be put in place to facilitate farmer's participation in government regulations on enforcing biosecurity, health standards, disease monitoring, and surveillance practices. Elsevier Masson SAS. 2020 2020-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC7523516/ /pubmed/33015275 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100600 Text en © 2020 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved. Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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Ejeromedoghene, O.
Tesi, J.N.
Uyanga, V.A.
Adebayo, A.O.
Nwosisi, M.C.
Tesi, G.O.
Akinyeye, R.O.
Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title_full Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title_fullStr Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title_full_unstemmed Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title_short Food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in Africa: A perspective of COVID-19 pandemic era
title_sort food security and safety concerns in animal production and public health issues in africa: a perspective of covid-19 pandemic era
topic Commentary
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7523516/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33015275
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jemep.2020.100600
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