How can we prevent a COVID-19 food crisis?

The supply and demand side, global grain stockpiles are healthy but could quickly be depleted as the food utilities....virus disrupts food production and distribution shortages of animal feed, fertilizers, and pesticides have increasing both the costs of farming and the risk of bad harvests.Overallrom harvesting fruits and vegetables  in India to operating meat plants in the US, labor shortages are becoming increasingly apparent as cross-border travel restrictions in much of the world disrupt the normal seasonal cycle of migrant farm workers. And transportation shortages are making it more challenging to get produce to market – when there is one.

Farmers need to reconfigure their supply chains away from bulk and totally wholesale to (currently closed) restaurants, hotels, other than home and schools, and toward grocery stores and home delivery. But that takes time, not least because its commercial and consumer food products are prepared and packaged differently. In the meantime, fresh produce has had to be destroyed even before COVID-19, many low-income countries were at serious risk of debt distress. many of these economies are also highly vulnerable to a spike in food prices.some modicum of global policy coordination is essential to prevent food protectionism from becoming the post-pandemic new normal.