The current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is impacting on food systems and has exposed the poor state of food security and lack of food system infrastructures. Consequently, sub-Saharan Africa countries face the compounded risk of COVID-19 and hunger. The syndemic will pose serious challenges for achieving food security imperatives of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030. This article discusses the dynamics of food security imperatives brought about by COVID-19 pandemic. It examines the mitigating efforts of sub-Saharan African governments in addressing COVID-19 and how this effort impacts the attainment of SDGs One, Two, Three and 12. It finds that while the pandemic provides an opportunity for governments to strengthen their commitments, it raises questions on the ambitious global efforts to deliver SDGs by 2030. It recommends that African governments need to maximize intra-African trade with investments in agricultural biotechnological infrastructure in order to close the gap between the targets and the realities, in the efforts towards achieving the SDGs.

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“ COVID-19 /粮食不安全综合症”：在非洲实现可持续发展目标的粮食安全迫切需要的现实

当前的2019年冠状病毒病（COVID-19）大流行正在影响粮食系统，并暴露了粮食安全状况不佳和粮食系统基础设施不足的情况。因此，撒哈拉以南非洲国家面临着COVID-19和饥饿的复合风险。该综合症将对在2030年之前实现可持续发展目标（SDGs）的粮食安全要务构成严峻挑战。本文讨论了COVID-19大流行带来的粮食安全要务的动态。它研究了撒哈拉以南非洲各国政府为解决COVID-19而做出的缓解努力，以及该努力如何影响可持续发展目标1、2、3和12的实现。它发现，尽管该流行病为各国政府提供了加强其承诺的机会，但它提出了到2030年实现SDG的全球雄心勃勃的努力的问题。