Research on the efforts of the United Nations (UN) in achieving its sustainable development goal of ‘Zero Hunger’. How is it relevant in the current Coronavirus pandemic? What has been the impact of the social responsibility of stocking food during COVID-19?
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The World Food Programme (WFP), aims to bring food assistance to more than 80 million people in 80 countries and is continually responding to emergencies. But WFP also works to help prevent hunger in the future.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak of coronavirus disease (COVID-19, broadly referred to as “coronavirus”) a global pandemic, while thousands of infections and deaths are reported daily. The current article explores the food systems in the era of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. It provides insights about the properties of bioactive ingredients of foods and herbs for the support of the human immune system against infections before discussing the possibility of COVID-19 transmission through the food chain. It also highlights the global food security issues arising from the fact that one-third of the world’s population is on lockdown. Finally, it underlines the importance of sustainability in the food chain in order to avoid or reduce the frequency of relevant food and health crises in the future.
Coronavirus disease (COVID-19, caused by the novel coronavirus SARS-CoV-2) is an easily transmissible disease that was identified within December 2019 and declared a pandemic by WHO on 11 March 2020 [1]. The first infections were linked (with some, but not firm evidence) to the Huanan Seafood Market (Wuhan, China) [2]. Zhou et al. [3] used sequencing technology to show that SARS-CoV-2 and bat coronavirus possess a similarity of gene sequence up to 96.2%, suggesting bats as the possible source of SARS-CoV2. As of 16 April 2020, over 2 million cases of COVID-19 and over 137,000 corresponding deaths have been reported in over 210 countries, where these numbers are growing exponentially daily [4,5]. The flu-like symptoms of COVID-19 usually appear 5–6 days after infection and include coughing, sore throat, fever, muscle and body aches [6], and even loss of smell or taste in some cases [7].