The objective of this paper is to systematically summarize the impact of covid-19 on food security system and its all four dimensions. The paper also highlights Covid-19 and its effects on all four dimensions of food security system, namely: availability, physical accessibility, utilization, and stability. People who lost their jobs during pandemic and not get paid enough for their jobs are in more vulnerable situations due to covid-19. The paper also argues that impacts of covid-19 have severe and widespread across the globe. Food security means when all people, at all times have physical and economic access to sufficient safe and nutritious food for their active and healthy life whereas Covid-19 is a disease caused by virus named SARS-CoV-2.
After the spread of covid-19, the world not just face outbreak of coronavirus but also hunger virus. This pandemic has led to increase in global food insecurity and affecting vulnerable communities, and regions across the world. Globally, as a result of a crisis, approx. 130 million people will face acuate hunger; while in India, due to covid-19, 62 percent of households shifting from food security to food insecurity and 17 percent staying food insecure. Thus, covid-19 is not just threating food security but also millions of people are facing poverty, malnutrition, and starvation. Subsequently, the objective of SDG-2, Zero Hunger by 2030 is far from reach. Further, the paper explores ways to prepare and avoid the critical consequences of pandemic-induced food crises. Lastly, the study also highlights some global and regional interventions to avert and mitigate the consequences of a covid-19 pandemic on food security system.
