Feb , 2022, Volume : 3 Article : 13
Disrupt food system in the wake of COVID 19 pandemic: Repercussion at the micro level
Author : N. Uttam Singh, Pampi Paul, Kamni P. Biam, A. Roy and Puran Chandra
ABSTRACT
North-East India has also eyewitness the 1st and 2nd wave of COVID 19 pandemic intolerably, which may exemplify as fluid and dynamic, including a high degree of uncertainty. As a part of adaptation behavior lockdown was implemented by the Government in the country which has affected major disruption to food supply chains. The unfolding crisis has affected food systems and threatened people’s access to food via multiple dynamics. Further, the instability index of NE India state shows instability exists for an area, production starts from cereals to animal products. Making our agriculture system more resilient is the only means which can protect from becoming more vulnerable, especially when the situation is more awful like the recent pandemic. As we adapt to a new normal instead of being feeble the present crisis-led food system must take the opportunity to become resilient while minimizing the disruption in unorganized supply chains.
Keywords: pandemic, food system, lockdown, resilience
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