Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond
Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond
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Abstract
In a moment of global unity, many governments across the world chose the same policy to address Covid-19: lockdowns. Lockdowns helped to “flatten the curve” but often undermined food and nutrition security. Taking a theoretical and empirical perspective, this paper disentangles the effects of different lockdown measures – such as movement restrictions, workplace closures, and banning public events – on different dimensions of food and nutrition security. The empirical explorations are based on a content analysis of 1,188 newspaper articles on lockdown effects published in five African countries: Zambia, Benin, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya (ordered from lowest to highest lockdown stringency). The results highlight both the need and scope to design nutrition-sensitive lockdown strategies, which are effective from an epidemiological perspective but minimize trade-offs with food and nutrition security, when facing pandemics such as Covid-19 and potential future disease outbreaks.
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Africa, Covid-19, Food and nutrition security
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610 Medizin, Gesundheit 630 Landwirtschaft, VeterinärmedizinFirst Publication
https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.28221.28641Part of Series
Hohenheim Working Papers on Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development ; 006-2020Daum, Thomas; Birner, Regina; Biesalski, Konrad; Blaschke, Nikola; Bosch, Christine; Güttler, Denise; Heni, Jakob; Kariuki, Juliet; Katusiime, Roseline; Seidel, Anna; Senon, Zinsou Narcisse; Woode, George: Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond. Hohenheim: University of Hohenheim, 2020. In: Hohenheim Working Papers on Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development, 006-2020.
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author = {{Thomas Daum} and {Regina Birner} and {Konrad Biesalski} and {Nikola Blaschke} and {Christine Bosch} and {Denise Güttler} and {Jakob Heni} and {Juliet Kariuki} and {Roseline Katusiime} and {Anna Seidel} and {Zinsou Narcisse Senon} and {George Woode}},
title = {Between pandemics and famines: Towards nutrition-sensitive lockdowns during Covid-19 and beyond},
publisher = {University of Hohenheim},
year = 2020,
month = dec,
series = {Hohenheim Working Papers on Social and Institutional Change in Agricultural Development},
volume = 006-2020,
note = {In a moment of global unity, many governments across the world chose the same policy to address Covid-19: lockdowns. Lockdowns helped to “flatten the curve” but often undermined food and nutrition security. Taking a theoretical and empirical perspective, this paper disentangles the effects of different lockdown measures – such as movement restrictions, workplace closures, and banning public events – on different dimensions of food and nutrition security. The empirical explorations are based on a content analysis of 1,188 newspaper articles on lockdown effects published in five African countries: Zambia, Benin, Ghana, Uganda, and Kenya (ordered from lowest to highest lockdown stringency). The results highlight both the need and scope to design nutrition-sensitive lockdown strategies, which are effective from an epidemiological perspective but minimize trade-offs with food and nutrition security, when facing pandemics such as Covid-19 and potential future disease outbreaks.},
url = {https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11811/10885}
}
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