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Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists
The focus of attention regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on direct health outcomes and the macroeconomic impacts of control measures. Here we review the available evidence about the food security impacts of the pandemic on pastoralists in Eastern and Western Africa. While pasto...
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2021
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552633/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.af2s.2021.07.004 |
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author | Griffith, Evan F. Craige, Shaina Manzano, Pablo Pius, Loupa Jost, Christine C. |
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description | The focus of attention regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on direct health outcomes and the macroeconomic impacts of control measures. Here we review the available evidence about the food security impacts of the pandemic on pastoralists in Eastern and Western Africa. While pastoralism occurs on more than 50% of the world's land area, the landscapes that pastoralists exploit tend to be remote and highly variable arid and semi-arid lands with low population densities. Over time pastoralists have developed sophisticated mechanisms to enhance their self-sufficiency. At the same time, remoteness and sociopolitical marginalization have resulted in higher rates of food insecurity and underdevelopment among pastoralists relative to more sedentary populations. These dynamics tend to be intractable to standardized food security, malnutrition, and economic development interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to a worsening of food security trends in pastoralist areas of East and West Africa due to a multiplicity of factors, including the closure of livestock markets, movement restrictions, disruptions of supply chains and livestock production inputs, reduced frequency and quality of human and animal healthcare delivery, and lost income from complementary livelihoods. It opens, however, space for innovations that may contribute to the food-secure future of pastoralism, including adapting a One Health approach that addresses the social, economic, and environmental health determinants of food security among African pastoralists. |
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spelling | pubmed-85526332021-10-29 Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists Griffith, Evan F. Craige, Shaina Manzano, Pablo Pius, Loupa Jost, Christine C. Advances in Food Security and Sustainability Article The focus of attention regarding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic has been on direct health outcomes and the macroeconomic impacts of control measures. Here we review the available evidence about the food security impacts of the pandemic on pastoralists in Eastern and Western Africa. While pastoralism occurs on more than 50% of the world's land area, the landscapes that pastoralists exploit tend to be remote and highly variable arid and semi-arid lands with low population densities. Over time pastoralists have developed sophisticated mechanisms to enhance their self-sufficiency. At the same time, remoteness and sociopolitical marginalization have resulted in higher rates of food insecurity and underdevelopment among pastoralists relative to more sedentary populations. These dynamics tend to be intractable to standardized food security, malnutrition, and economic development interventions. The COVID-19 pandemic is contributing to a worsening of food security trends in pastoralist areas of East and West Africa due to a multiplicity of factors, including the closure of livestock markets, movement restrictions, disruptions of supply chains and livestock production inputs, reduced frequency and quality of human and animal healthcare delivery, and lost income from complementary livelihoods. It opens, however, space for innovations that may contribute to the food-secure future of pastoralism, including adapting a One Health approach that addresses the social, economic, and environmental health determinants of food security among African pastoralists. Elsevier Inc. 2021 2021-09-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8552633/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.af2s.2021.07.004 Text en Copyright © 2021 Elsevier Inc. 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. |
spellingShingle | Article Griffith, Evan F. Craige, Shaina Manzano, Pablo Pius, Loupa Jost, Christine C. Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title | Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title_full | Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title_fullStr | Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title_full_unstemmed | Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title_short | Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security among East and West African pastoralists |
title_sort | impacts of the covid-19 pandemic on food security among east and west african pastoralists |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8552633/ http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/bs.af2s.2021.07.004 |
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