Three global experts on ensuring food security in the era of COVID-19

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Three global experts on ensuring food security in the era of COVID-19

1 April 2020

In an opinion piece, three global food experts -- UN Special Envoy Agnes Kalibata as well as Thanawat Tiensin and Martin Cole of the Committee on World Food Security -- have described how the ongoing pandemic could unleash a crippling global food crisis. But they added that proactive policy measures can prevent the worst impacts.

��Any effective response to a COVID-19-related food crisis requires examining how to restructure our global and national food systems.��

Read the full opinion piece in .

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