Impacts of COVID-19 on agricultural production and food systems in late transforming Southeast Asia: The case of Myanmar

Duncan Boughton, Joseph Goeb, Isabel Lambrecht, Derek Headey, Hiroyuki Takeshima, Kristi Mahrt, Ian Masias, Sophie Goudet, Catherine Ragasa (), Mywish Maredia, Bart Minten and Xinshen Diao

Agricultural Systems, 2021, vol. 188, issue C

Abstract: The objective of this contribution is to report the initial impacts of measures taken to contain the COVID-19 pandemic on Myanmar's agri-food system. Myanmar is one of several late-transforming low-income countries in Southeast Asia where agriculture still plays a large role in rural livelihoods, and where food prices are a key factor affecting nutrition security for poor urban and rural households. Whereas the economic impacts of COVID-19 disruptions on tourism and manufacturing were obvious to policymakers, the impacts on the agri-food system were less evident and often more indirect. This resulted in the rural sector being allocated only a very small share of the government's initial fiscal response to mitigate the economic impacts of COVID-19.

Keywords: COVID-19; Myanmar; Agri-food system; Phone surveys; Rural livelihoods; Food security (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103026

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