Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing Indigenous food systems

Carol Zavaleta-Cortijo,James D Ford,Ingrid Arotoma-Rojas,Shuaib Lwasa,Guillermo Lancha-Rucoba,Patricia J García,J Jaime Miranda,Didacus B Namanya,Mark New,Carlee J Wright,Lea Berrang-Ford,Cesar Carcamo,Victoria Edge,Sherilee L Harper

doi:10.1016/s2542-5196(20)30173-x

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Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing Indigenous food systems

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Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source
Effects of climate change undermine Indigenous food security, in turn compromising the resilience of Indigenous populations to pandemics
The extended lockdown in Uganda, for border districts where many Indigenous populations live, has hampered their mobi lity to access forested areas for foraging, access to nearby communities to offer labour for food exchange, and access to agricultural fields for food production. These challenges are exacerbated by existing climate effects,[9] including recent flooding in 2019 that damaged crops, compromised food production,[10] and reduced the resilience of Indigenous populations when the COVID-19 pandemic hit

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Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. Climate change and COVID-19: reinforcing Indigenous food systems

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