As the impacts of COVID-19 spread across the globe, the virus threatens more than health systems worldwide. It also poses serious risks to food security; local businesses and national economies; and hard-fought progress by stakeholders at all levels towards the Sustainable Development Goals. The global response to the pandemic must be swift and science-based, harnessing knowledge for emergency response, recovery, and resilience
Research leaders in health and agriculture have launched a new COVID-19 hub to consolidate existing scientific evidence and help support response, recovery, and resilience measures in the face of the coronavirus pandemic. As UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned recently, immediate action on food systems is needed to prevent a global food emergency that could have long-term health effects.
The CGIAR COVID-19 Hub, coordinated by CGIAR, the world’s largest publicly funded agricultural research network, will bring together the latest science on agriculture and health to inform a research-based response to the pandemic.
The International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI) will join the International Livestock Research Institute (ILRI), the CGIAR System Organization and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) as co-implementers of the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub.
Hosted by the CGIAR Research Program on Agriculture for Nutrition and Health (A4NH), the Hub provides a coordinated research response to the pandemic, convening researchers, funders, and key stakeholders. It focuses on supporting national response and recovery work across CGIAR research themes through the response, recovery, and resilience phases of the pandemic, with work from across CGIAR’s global network of 14 Research Centers and 15 Research Programs and Platforms, in close collaboration with other research organizations, policymakers, NGOs, and many other stakeholders.
Read more about the launch of the CGIAR COVID-19 Hub.
This release is also posted on the A4NH website. You can find it here.