Food Distribution: The Biggest Food Security Challenge Posed by COVID 19

Getting food to the people and keeping food production going in times of curfews, movement restrictions and lock-downs are emerging to be the biggest challenges governments across the globe have to contend with when considering or implementing any forms of mass containment as responses necessitated by the COVID 19 pandemic.

In Kenya, the consequences of the virus portends to limit availability and affordability of food not only for the 3.7 million Kenyans documented to be food insecure in times of natural crises such as droughts and floods, but the entire 47 million population. This however, is at varying degrees between high and low income earners as well as between rural and urban dwellers. Read more https://uonresearch.org/blog/food-distribution-the-biggest-food-security-challenge-posed-by-covid-19/