Research Article
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities in Food Environments to Provide Sustainable Healthy Foods
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/eai.14-9-2020.2304636, author={Amiya Kumar Sahoo}, title={The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities in Food Environments to Provide Sustainable Healthy Foods}, proceedings={Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Sustainable Management and Innovation, ICoSMI 2020, 14-16 September 2020, Bogor, West Java, Indonesia}, publisher={EAI}, proceedings_a={ICOSMI}, year={2021}, month={5}, keywords={covid-19 food environment healthy diet sustainability}, doi={10.4108/eai.14-9-2020.2304636} }- Amiya Kumar Sahoo
Year: 2021
The COVID-19 Pandemic: Challenges and Opportunities in Food Environments to Provide Sustainable Healthy Foods
ICOSMI
EAI
DOI: 10.4108/eai.14-9-2020.2304636
Abstract
The COVID-19 is a contagious disease caused by the novel coronavirus, widely spread throughout the globe. The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic is a global health crisis that makes human health vulnerability, affects people’s livelihood, disrupts and deteriorates the food environment and healthy nutritious food that are essential to sustain. This paper focuses on the food environment for sustainable healthy foods amidst COVID-19 outbreak. It provides insights into the challenges that arise in the food environment for healthy diets during the worldwide lockdown. It also highlights the opportunities for food environment at this juncture. This article highlights a healthy diet as a link between the food environment and nutrition. Worldwide, the diversity among countries due to their cultural, social, political, financial and agricultural potential will be an alternative pathway to the sustainability in the food environment in order to manage the epidemiological pandemic crisis in future
