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A rapid assessment framework for food system shocks: lessons learned from COVID-19 in the Indo-Pacific region
Environmental Science & Policy ( IF 6 ) Pub Date : 2020-12-23 , DOI: 10.1016/j.envsci.2020.12.011
James R A Butler 1 , Federico Davila 2 , Robyn Alders 3 , R Michael Bourke 4 , Steve Crimp 5 , John McCarthy 6 , Andrew McWilliam 7 , Anton S M Palo 8 , Lisa Robins 5 , Michael J Webb 9 , Monica van Wensveen 10 , Todd Sanderson 11 , Daniel Walker 11
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The frequency and severity of shocks to food systems is accelerating globally, exemplified by the current COVID-19 outbreak. In low- and middle-income countries, the impacts have exacerbated existing food system vulnerabilities and poverty. Governments and donors must respond quickly, but few tools are available that identify interventions to build food system resilience, or emerging opportunities for transformation. In this paper we reflect on the application of a systems-based rapid assessment which we applied across 11 Indo-Pacific countries in May-July 2020. Our approach was shaped by three design parameters: the integration of key informants’ perspectives engaged remotely within the countries, applicability to diverse food systems and COVID-19 experiences across the region, and the consideration of food systems as complex systems. For the rapid assessment we adopted an analytical framework proposed by Allen and Prosperi (2016). To include a development lens, we added the analysis of vulnerable groups and their exposure, impacts, recovery potential and resilience, and pro-poor interventions. We concluded that the framework and approach facilitated integration and triangulation of disparate knowledge types and data to identify priority interventions and was sufficiently flexible to be applied across food systems, at both national, sub-national and commodity scales. The step-wise method was simple and enabled structured inquiry and reporting. Although the systems concepts appeared more easily transferrable to key informants in some countries than others, potentially transformational interventions were identified, and also some risks of maladaptation. We present a refined framework that emphasises analysis of political, economic and institutional drivers of exposure and vulnerability, the constraints that they pose for building recovery potential and resilience, and trade-offs amongst winners and losers inherent in proposed interventions.



中文翻译:

粮食系统冲击快速评估框架:印度洋-太平洋地区从 COVID-19 中吸取的教训

在全球范围内,粮食系统受到冲击的频率和严重程度正在加快,当前的 COVID-19 疫情就是一个例证。在低收入和中等收入国家,这些影响加剧了现有粮食系统的脆弱性和贫困。政府和捐助者必须迅速做出反应,但几乎没有可用的工具来确定建立粮食系统弹性的干预措施或新出现的转型机会。在本文中,我们反思了基于系统的快速评估的应用,我们于 2020 年 5 月至 7 月在 11 个印度洋-太平洋国家应用了该方法。我们的方法由三个设计参数决定:将关键信息提供者的观点与远程参与的整合国家、对不同粮食系统的适用性和整个地区的 COVID-19 经验,以及将粮食系统视为复杂系统。对于快速评估,我们采用了 Allen 和 Prosperi (2016) 提出的分析框架。为了纳入发展视角,我们增加了对弱势群体及其风险、影响、恢复潜力和复原力以及扶贫干预措施的分析。我们得出的结论是,该框架和方法促进了不同知识类型和数据的整合和三角测量,以确定优先干预措施,并且具有足够的灵活性,可以在国家、地方和商品规模的整个粮食系统中应用。循序渐进的方法很简单,可以进行结构化查询和报告。尽管系统概念在一些国家似乎比其他国家更容易转移给关键信息提供者,但确定了潜在的转型干预措施,以及一些适应不良的风险。

更新日期:2020-12-23
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