Threats to global food systems from biosecurity issues

Prabhu Pingali

No 320487, 2021: Food and Nutrition Security - The Biosecurity, Trade, Health Nexus, 13-14 December 2021 from Crawford Fund

Abstract: Global food systems have gone through periodic transformtions over the past sixty years: the Green Revolution, the Livestock Revolution, and the globalisation of food trade are some of the epochal events observed. The nature and magnitude of biosecurity risks have evolved with the rising intensity and complexity of agriculture and food systems. While transboundary crop pests continue to challenge global food security, zoonotic diseases are rising as risks to human health. The global movement of goods and people has further expanded biosecurity risks, in terms of scale and intensity of impacts. Rising global temperatures will further exacerbate the risks associated with transboundary pest and zoonotic diseases. COVID-19 provides an important example of food systems impacts from a global health shock. Policy and management opportunities for managing biosecurity risks and rebuilding food system resilience need urgent assessment and global action.

Keywords: Food; Security; and; Poverty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.320487

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