COVID-19 impacts and adaptations in Asia and Africa’s aquatic food value chains
TL;DR: In this paper, Padiyar, Suresh Rajendran, A B C Mohan, Ravi Babu, Michael Joseph Akester, Ei Ei Phyo, Khin Maung Soe, Ajibola Olaniyi, Sunil N Siriwardena, Michael Phillips, Shakuntala H Thilsted
About: This article is published in Marine Policy.The article was published on 2021-04-25 and is currently open access. It has received 65 citations till now.
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TL;DR: In this article, a hybrid approach of online and telephone questionnaire surveys was used to investigate the food security of Dhaka city's inhabitants at household level, and a range of coping strategies were observed: including decreasing the frequency of grocery shopping, shifting to online shopping, reducing consumption of high price commodities, reducing junk food consumption, cleaning fish and meat with hot water and vinegar, and increasing consumption of protein and vitamin C rich food items.
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...Better-off appears to have diverse coping mechanisms, however, the pre-existing inequalities among social groups have been raised many folds during the pandemic (Belton et al., 2021)....
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the impacts of and responses to COVID-19 of small-scale fisheries in six selected countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam.
Abstract: This paper describes the impacts of and responses to COVID-19 of small-scale fisheries in six selected countries in Southeast Asia, including Indonesia, Malaysia, Myanmar, Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam. The paper used a structured case study approach to analyse the impacts and responses and relied heavily on existing reports and data sources in each country. The pandemic has further revealed the vulnerability of small-scale fishing households in the region. Given the few assets of fisher households, their ability to cushion the negative impact of crises and shocks is limited. Fishers made adaptive responses such as direct fish marketing, online marketing, and home delivery services. While short-term responses of providing food and financial assistance have been helpful, long-term support to address pandemics such as COVID-19 and other stressors will require developing more resilient fishing households. The paper recommends several approaches and interventions to improve household resilience and to be better prepared for similar challenges and threats in the future. These include: i) strengthening the fishing households’ social network of friends, relatives, and neighbours to serve as both a social safety net and a bridge towards the transition to financial inclusion;ii) diversifying livelihood to reduce dependency on the fishery and provide for additional sources of income and food;iii) promoting financial inclusion through savings, credit, digital payment products, and insurance;iv) value chain upgrading through post-harvest fish handling and processing methods;and, v) providing access, especially for women, to social protection measures such as government health insurance and social security. © Asian Fisheries Society.
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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors assess the impacts of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic on the livelihoods of the people of South Korea. But, they do not consider the impact of public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID19.
Abstract: Public health measures aimed at reducing the spread of COVID-19 can have significant, unintended impacts on livelihoods. In this paper, we assess the impacts of responses to the COVID-19 pandemic o...
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...Prices of fish and shrimp declined as the pandemic progressed further, reflecting lower consumer demand (Belton et al., 2021)....
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...In general, larger businesses in aquatic food value chains adapted more successfully to COVID-19 disruptions than smaller firms, while women’s employment was impacted more than men’s (Belton et al., 2021)....
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors used rural and urban survey data from 4000 households across five African countries to assess the pandemic's effect on incomes and food consumption, and found that a large share of the population saw incomes drop between March and July 2020.
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TL;DR: In this article , the authors explored the livelihood conditions, health status and care-seeking behavior of the fishermen in these communities during the ongoing pandemic, by applying mixed methods, including interviews and focus group discussion (FGD), in the three sub-districts of Khulna, Satkhira, and Bagerhat in Bangladesh.
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...fishers and fishworkers [12], delays in accessing critical production inputs for aquaculture such as broodstock and seed [13,14], changes in levels of fishing pressure [15], fluctuating consumer and producer prices, changing product preferences, and reduced levels of production [11, 16,17]....
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