Nutrition and food safety during COVID-19

Covid-19 has further strained the exhausted food systems in those countries and exacerbated poverty, food shortage and insecurity. This document highlights...

This Policy brief provides governments and stakeholders with practical guidance for an improved understanding of safe and inclusive access to services...

This document addresses how the pandemic impacted food security and livelihoods of refugees and migrants and how these concerns in turn play a driving...

Key messages on the importance of a consistent and affordable access to food for adolescents and pregnant women. (pages 38-39) Produced by: FAO, UNICEF,...

This brief provides the most recent situation analysis on different countries that are facing food insecurity and nutrition-related problems during this...

Joint message by WFP and UNICEF on areas of consideration for ensuring school children’s right to food during COVID-19 amid wide school closures. Produced...

As the COVID-19 pandemic reaches many countries with fragile health systems and/or already affected by a humanitarian crisis, it is critical to include...

This advocacy document describes how school closures have affected children's access to nutrition and health services and provides key messages for policy...

This advocacy document addresses how the provision of school nutrition and health programs can decrease the percentage of school drop-outs, especially...

This advocacy document presents key actions and policies to limit the effect of school closures on children's lives including their access to food and...

This advocacy document highlights the socioeconomic impacts of the pandemic on the most vulnerable children and their families and calls upon country governments,...

This document shows the direct and indirect impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on children’s health, nutrition, and wellbeing. It presents recommendations...

This document describes the effects of the COVID-19-related school closures on child nutrition and access to food. It outlines the governmental efforts...

This advocacy publication provides an overview of the state of school feeding programs before the pandemic, how they were impacted by the pandemic, and...

This advocacy addresses food safety and the prevention of transmission of the virus during the food chain process.Produced by: FAOLearn more   

This blog post addresses the global increase in food prices and insecurity due to the emergence of the pandemic. It highlights the key actions needed to...

This document provides a summary of the humanitarian and international organizations' efforts in mitigating global food insecurity through short-term COVID-19...

WFP and UNICEF present a list of action recommendations for the national/sub-national governments and the nutrition sector to mitigate the effects of the...

The meals that marginalized children get in school are often the only food that they receive per day. As such, school feeding programs can be used as an...

This advocacy document addresses how food supply chains were impacted by the pandemic and presents priority areas that require action interventions.Produced...

This guidance provides actions and indicators that facilitate monitoring and regulate delivering of essential health care services during COVID-19 which...

This guidance includes practical recommendations for decision makers to help keep communities and health workers safe, to sustain essential services at...

This document provides a practical guide for parliamentarians and policymakers to update of the 9 major pillars of COVID‑19 preparedness and response and...

This is a comprehensive guidance document to help governments and policy makers in maintaining essential health care services during COVID-19 pandemic....

This guidance document provides recommendations to promote infant and young child feeding during COVID-19, including in humanitarian emergency settings. Produced...

This guidance document provides policy-makers with recommendations on how to support maternal nutrition, protect their diets and enhance maternal health...

This document provides guidelines on how to prevent child wasting using national health systems during the COVID-19 to support infant and young child feeding.Produced...

This guidance provides recommendations to address nutrition information management, surveillance and monitoring during the COVID-19 pandemic. A set of...

This brief includes key information on the impact of COVID-19 on food security and nutrition for children and presents recommendations to mitigate the...

This joint note from the WFP, the FAO and UNICEF intends to provide government decision makers, school administrators/staff and partners with preliminary...

This guidance document addresses the main issues concerning food safety, mainly, methods to guarantee effective risk mitigation in reduced food safety...

This guidance document describes the United Nation's response to COVID-19 and the actions taken to help countries in the recovery process from COVID-19....

This guidance document offers a list of multi-sectoral recommendations concerning education, health, nutrition, protection and WASH services, to consider...

The WHO released this Q/A to address the main questions concerning food safety and Covid-19 transmission mitigation in the food industry.Produced by: WHOLearn...

This series of Q&A answers several questions related to food security and access in the time of Covid-19.Produced by: Center for Strategic and...

This document addresses the effect of the pandemic on the public's wellbeing and highlights the required actions from governmental and non-governmental...

This resource provides key messages on how to improve food supply chains, during the pandemic, in Pakistan in order to improve the nutritional status of...

This is a call to action for governments and other funding partners to provide more funding for essential nutrition services during COVID-19 in Madagascar.Produced...

This document presents key recommendations and actions for promoting infant feeding in the context of the pandemic and promoting access to affordable nutrition...

This contextualized document describes the malnutrition and lack of WASH services available for children in Mozambique which were exacerbated by the pandemic....

The pandemic has further impeded the access of people living in conflict zones to basic needs and increased their food insecurity. This document calls...

This advocacy note shows the international humanitarian efforts done to provide life-saving aid and nutritional services to children in Yemen. Produced...

This contextualized document shows the international assistance provided to Venezuela to ensure the provision of Nutrition, Water, Hygiene and Sanitation. Produced...

This document portrays how the WFP has been supporting the government of Congo with school feeding programs by launching the “School feeding at home”...

As schools shut the National School Feeding Program was suspended in Honduras, WFP and UNICEF collaborated with the Honduran Government, to allow the preparation...

This context document discusses the situation of food security in Latin American and Caribbean and calls upon the parliamentarians and the international...

This advocacy document aims at understanding the gendered impacts of Covid-19 and to inform governments on national development planning and strategies...

This document addresses the impacts of the pandemic on the lived of Palestinian adolescents in terms of nutrition, education, and protection and provides...

This document addresses the situation of food security and systems in Latin American and the Caribbean region and presents policy recommendations to enhance...