This paper assesses the earlier projections made by the authors in March 2020 about the impact of COVID-19 on Canada's food security. First, as measured in the early part of the second quarter of 2020, COVID-19 is associated with an increased prevalence of household food insecurity as measured by Statistics Canada. Also, as we predicted, we did not observe a rapid general increase in food prices that would have suggested a breakdown in parts of the food system. In this regard, we now develop a general insight that we believe is worthy of ongoing consideration. Put simply, concerns expressed about food insecurity should not be seen as tantamount to a failure of our food supply system. Household income, for example, is an important part of the story. The converse is also true: the success of our food supply system as measured by its capacity to adapt to challenges like COVID-19 or provide a variety of food at relatively low prices—while necessary, and (in our opinion) critical considerations—will not alone eliminate food insecurity in Canada. The oversimplified conflation of food insecurity concerns with the robustness of our food supply system does a disservice to ongoing efforts to address food insecurity as well as our capacity to assess and improve the Canadian food supply system.

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食品安全和加拿大农业系统受到 COVID-19 的挑战：一年后

本文评估了作者在 2020 年 3 月做出的​​关于 COVID-19 对加拿大粮食安全影响的早期预测。首先，根据加拿大统计局的衡量，在 2020 年第二季度初，COVID-19 与家庭粮食不安全的流行率增加有关。此外，正如我们预测的那样，我们没有观察到食品价格的快速普遍上涨，这表明部分食品系统已经崩溃。在这方面，我们现在形成了一个我们认为值得持续考虑的总体见解。简而言之，对粮食不安全的担忧不应被视为等同于我们的粮食供应系统的故障。例如，家庭收入是故事的重要组成部分。反过来也是如此：以其应对诸如COVID-19之类的挑战或以相对低廉的价格提供各种食物的能力来衡量我们的食物供应系统的成功，而这是必要的，而且（我们认为）关键考虑因素，并不能单独消除该国的粮食不安全状况。加拿大。食品不安全问题与我们食品供应系统的稳健性过于简单地混为一谈，不利于解决食品不安全问题的持续努力以及我们评估和改进加拿大食品供应系统的能力。