Rob Vos

TL;DR: The main threats COVID-19 poses to food security are outlined and critical responses that policy-makers should consider to prevent this global health crisis from becoming a global food crisis are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors assess the impact of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) on poverty, food insecurity, and diets, accounting for the complex links between the crisis and the incomes and living costs of vulnerable households Key elements are impacts on labor supply, effects of social distancing, shifts in demand from services involving close contact, increases in the cost of logistics in food and other supply chains, and reductions in savings and investment.

TL;DR: The global experience suggests that double duty actions are most important as are selected policies focused on healthy weaning foods for addressing stunting and taxes on SSBs, nutrition labeling, and other measures can steer consumers away from unhealthy ultra-processed foods to addressing obesity and possibly child nutrition and stunting.

TL;DR: Policy-relevant information gaps are identified, recent research that tries to fill these gaps are summarized, and five challenges for researchers, policymakers and practitioners in reducing FLW are identified.

TL;DR: In this article, a multisectoral general equilibrium framework with a full specification of financial sector relations is applied to Pakistan to capture the Pakistan economy characterized by commodity and financial market imperfections and structural differences in savings and investment behavior of institutional agents.