INVESTIGATION ON THE IMPACT OF POST COVID-19 PANDEMIC ON NUTRITION AND FOOD SECURITY IN NIGERIA

Abstract

The Corona virus is spreading at a very rapid pace, inflicting tremendous damage to all sectors without any
exception, but nevertheless the extent of the damage and losses resulting from the pandemic differ from one
sector to another and from one country to another, but what certainly counts most to people during crises is
to meet their food needs rather than any other, so the aim of this paper is to discuss the impact of nutrition
and food security in post Covid 19 pandemic. The scale of this was of an international level, with special
focus on countries suffering from food insecurity. Toward this end, data provided by the Food Agriculture
Organization (FAO), and the World Health Organization (WHO) have been analyzed, as well as studies
conducted and published on the subject. The findings indicate that Covid 19 has had a huge impact on
perishable food and caused remarkable food shortages in poor countries, conflict zones and war-affected
regions. Additionally, Covid 19 threatened food security even in some developed, whereas developing
countries are the most affected due to their high dependency in securing their food supplies. Finally, based
on the findings, we have suggested some recommendations that would help boosting sustainable food
security. Some of them include Government should implement more robust targeted social protection
programmes to improve access to healthy nutritious foods as well as ensure better protections for vulnerable
and marginalized food system workers and farmers who are disproportionately affected by the crisis.