The COVID-19 crisis is worsening food insecurity by undermining informal food chains. We focus on impacts involving the informal food chains that incorporate the resilience-enhancing biodiversity of food and agriculture known as agrobiodiversity. Our analysis addresses how informal food chains and agrobiodiversity are impacted by policies and interventions amidst COVID-19 disruptions. Our methodology relies on research in Peru with a focus on the cites and surrounding areas of Lima, Arequipa, Cusco, Huancayo, and Huánuco. We extend these insights to similar challenges and opportunities across western South America and other word regions. We utilize the four-part Agrobiodiversity Knowledge Framework to guide our examination of agrobiodiversity-related processes that interconnect governance, nutrition, agroecology, and the COVID-19 pandemic. Our results detail three links of informal food chains that are being disrupted and yet can offer resilience. These are food retailing, logistics and transportation, and seed systems. Utilization of the Agrobiodiversity Knowledge Framework cuts through highly complex issues to elaborate key food-security difficulties facing informal systems and how they can be strengthened to provide more resilience. We identify the specific roles of agrobiodiversity in resilience-enhancing processes that need strategic policy and program support. Results identify ways to augment the resilience of informal food chains using agrobiodiversity and the empowerment of social groups and organizations in urban food systems and rural communities. We conclude that the disruptions triggered by the global COVID-19 pandemic highlight the need to use agrobiodiversity as an instrument for resilience in informal food chains.

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非正规食物链和农业生物多样性需要加强而不是削弱，以解决南美洲 COVID-19 危机中的粮食安全问题

COVID-19 危机破坏了非正式的食物链，从而加剧了粮食不安全。我们专注于涉及非正式食物链的影响，这些食物链包含了粮食和农业的增强复原力的生物多样性，即农业生物多样性。我们的分析探讨了在 COVID-19 中断期间政策和干预措施如何影响非正式食物链和农业生物多样性。我们的方法依赖于秘鲁的研究，重点是利马、阿雷基帕、库斯科、万卡约和瓦努科的城市和周边地区。我们将这些见解扩展到南美洲西部和其他地区的类似挑战和机遇。我们利用由四部分组成的农业生物多样性知识框架来指导我们检查与治理、营养、农业生态学和 COVID-19 大流行相关的农业生物多样性相关过程。我们的结果详细说明了非正式食物链的三个环节，这些环节正在被打乱，但可以提供恢复力。这些是食品零售、物流和运输以及种子系统。利用农业生物多样性知识框架解决了高度复杂的问题，详细阐述了非正规系统面临的主要粮食安全困难以及如何加强这些困难以提供更大的复原力。我们确定了农业生物多样性在需要战略政策和计划支持的恢复力增强过程中的具体作用。结果确定了利用农业生物多样性以及增强城市粮食系统和农村社区中社会团体和组织的权能来增强非正式食物链复原力的方法。