2021 Global food policy report

(Mitesh Solanki)

• Recently Global Food Policy Report is published by the International Food Policy Research Institute.
• The theme of this year was “Transforming Food Systems After COVID-19”.
• Due to COVID-19 lock down was imposed and most of schools and day care centers were closed for longer period of time.
• Because of this several household shifted from expensive foods (fruits & vegetables) to cheaper staple food.
• The midday meal programme of India that covers 80% of primary school age children in the country was affected due to the COVID-19 lockdown.
• 50% of households in India reported that women spent more time in fetching firewood and water in comparison with the previous year.
• Efforts of India to incorporate migrant workers into social protection programmes was a huge success.