Local practices and production confer resilience to rural Pacific food systems during the COVID-19 pandemic.

ABSTRACT: Resilience of food systems is key to ensuring food security through crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented shock that reveals varying levels of resilience of increasingly interconnected food systems across the globe. We contribute to the ongoing debate about whether increased connectivity reduces or enhances resilience in the context of rural Pacific food systems, while examining how communities have adapted to the global shocks associated with the pandemic to ensure food security. We conducted 609 interviews across 199 coastal villages from May to October 2020 in Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu to understand community-level impacts and adaptations during the first 5-10 months of the COVID-19 crisis. We foun

SUBMITTER: Ferguson CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8746868 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature