 FOOD INSECURITY AND PANDEMICS: ADDRESSING THE FOOD SHOCK OF COVID-19 IN ROMANIAClaudiu-Cătălin Munteanu ()
Agricultural Economics and Rural Development, 2020, vol. 17, issue 2, 265-273 Abstract: Although the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on food security is difficult to predict on the medium and long term, governments need to address the short-term food shock. The current Covid-19 pandemic is already directly affecting food systems and states must take immediate actions to mitigate food insecurity. Policy makers’ decisions must take into account the current epidemiological situation alongside the magnitude of the food shock and food-chain disruptions generated by Covid-19. The purpose of this paper is to determine Romania’s self-sufficiency in the main groups of agri-food products by analyzing the 2019 food balance data. The main objective of ascertaining a food balance is to obtain an overview of the availability of agri-food products associated with the consumption of the population in a period of one year. We argue that the current pandemic acts as a large-scale unforeseeable shock that must be treated as an inflection point in terms of policy response. Based on this approach, we propose possible measures, solutions and strategic alternatives for Romania. Keywords: food security; food shock; Covid-19; agri-food products; self-sufficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:iag:reviea:v:17:y:2020:i:2:p:265-273 Access Statistics for this article More articles in Agricultural Economics and Rural Development from Institute of Agricultural Economics Contact information at EDIRC. |
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