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Emerging covid-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system

Love, David C. and Allison, Edward H. and Asche, Frank and Belton, Ben and Cottrell, Richard S. and Froehlich, Halley E. and Gephart, Jessica A. and Hicks, Christina C. (2021) Emerging covid-19 impacts, responses, and lessons for building resilience in the seafood system. Global Food Security, Vol.28. pp. 2-22.

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic and subsequent lockdowns are creating health and economic crises that threaten food and nutrition security. The seafood sector provides important sources of employment and nutrition, especially in low-income countries, and is highly globalized, allowing shocks to propagate internationally. We use a resilience ‘action cycle’ framework to study the first five months of COVID-19-related disruptions, impacts, and responses to the seafood sector. Looking across high- and low-income countries, we find that some supply chains, market segments, companies, small-scale actors and civil society have shown initial signs of greater resilience than others. For example, frozen Ecuadorian shrimp and Chinese tilapia exports were diverted to alternative markets, while live-fresh supply chains were more impacted. COVID-19 has also highlighted the vulnerability of certain groups working in- or dependent on the seafood sector. We discuss early coping and adaptive responses, combined with lessons from past shocks, that could be considered when building resilience in the sector.

Item Type: Articles
Keywords: Covid Impacts, Responses, Resilience Building, Employment, Nutrition, Framework, Low-Income Countries, Supply Chains, Markets, Vulnerability
Subjects: Disasters and Climate Change
Depositing User: Varsha V icsf
Date Deposited: 22 Dec 2021 05:22
Last Modified: 17 Jan 2022 06:43
URI: http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/5955

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