FAO-WFP, July 2020 -The COVID-19 crisis unfolds at a time when the number of acutely food-insecure people in the world has already risen over the past four years, largely due to conflict, climate change and economic downturn.

Science,  31 Jul 2020: Vol. 369, Issue 6503, pp. 500-502 DOI: 10.1126/science.abc4765. As the COVID-19 pandemic progresses, trade-offs have emerged between the need to contain the virus and to avoid disastrous economic and food security crises that hurt the world's poor and hungry most.

Executive Summary - Sustainable Development Solutions Network, July 2020 - The world is facing the worst public health and economic crisis in a century.

UNEP UN  ENVIRONMENT PROGRAMME - 14 JULY 2020 - Food systems are essential to economic activity because they provide the energy that we need to live and work.

EIT FOOD - July 2020 EIT Food has announced the final list of initiatives that will be awarded EURO 6.17m of funding as part of the COVID-19 Rapid Response Call for Innovation projects.

Global Panel on Agriculture and Food Systems for Nutrition - 14 June 2020 POLICY BRIEF No. 14  This brief focuses on the profound impacts the pandemic has already had on food systems and people’s diets during 2020.