The COVID global emergency provides an opportunity for redesign and transformation in the agricultural sector—whether in a rural, peri-urban, or urban environment—for building resilience and sustainability in the face of many systemic challenges. These include climate change and extreme weather events, biodiversity, pest and disease, water availability and quality, livelihoods, population, health, and urbanization. Ecosystem-based solutions (EbS) offer an integrated or nexus approach to enhancing the resilience and sustainability of agroecosystems, but require strong engagement and coordination of stakeholders to codesign, pilot, and evaluate strategies and actionable solutions to be effective. Digital agriculture can help with the design, evaluation, assessment, and implementation of EbS using big data, predictive analytics, and Internet-of-Things, to help manage agroecosystem resources more efficiently and effectively.

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Redesigning and Transforming Food Systems to Be More Resilient to Disruption and Disaster: Lessons Learned from COVID

  • Nathaniel K. Newlands,
  • Amani Alfarra

摘要

The COVID global emergency provides an opportunity for redesign and transformation in the agricultural sector—whether in a rural, peri-urban, or urban environment—for building resilience and sustainability in the face of many systemic challenges. These include climate change and extreme weather events, biodiversity, pest and disease, water availability and quality, livelihoods, population, health, and urbanization. Ecosystem-based solutions (EbS) offer an integrated or nexus approach to enhancing the resilience and sustainability of agroecosystems, but require strong engagement and coordination of stakeholders to codesign, pilot, and evaluate strategies and actionable solutions to be effective. Digital agriculture can help with the design, evaluation, assessment, and implementation of EbS using big data, predictive analytics, and Internet-of-Things, to help manage agroecosystem resources more efficiently and effectively.