Disaster in Agriculture and Food Security Term Paper 2022

Term paper on
The effect of covid-19 (lockdown) on food security in Bangladesh.
Course name
Disaster in Agriculture and Food Security
Course Code: DHSM-3209
Submitted to
Asikunnaby
Assistant Professor
Department of Disaster and Human Security Management
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Bangladesh University of Professionals (BUP)
Submitted by
MD. Mehedi Hasan Santo
ID: 19131025
Session: 2018-2019
Department of Disaster and Human Security Management
Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
Submission Date
27/10/21
Contents Page no.
Introduction 03
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Discussion 03-04
Conclusion 05
References 06
Introduction:
Pandemic is a significant part of humankind history and has faced different pandemics, including
Plague of Athens, The Black Death, Spanish Flu, SARS, Cholera, Flu Pandemic, AIDS and
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Ebola, etc. Those pandemics have ravaged the environment, economy and humanity extensively.
Humanity is currently going through another widespread infectious pandemic called COVID-19,
which started spreading from China in 2019 and subsequently affected more than 220 countries
and territories, including Bangladesh(Uddin et al., 2020). COVID-19 has triggered not just a
global calamity in terms of human deaths but also affects economic and agricultural activities.
The impact of covid-19 on the food supply chain is a serious issue, especially in developing
countries that face trouble with food security. Food security is a human right that refers to all
human beings, at all times having access to safe, nutritious, quality and sufficient foods. To
ensure food security there needs a proper balance between the supply and demand chain. The
supply and demand chain is being disrupted through various factors such as war, conflict,
disaster, pandemic etc(Erhie, 2020). Recent pandemic coronavirus disrupts the global food
supply chain, causing import-export trade to be impeded (Barman, Das, & De, 2021). The
coronavirus has caused havoc on the global economy(December, 2020). Likewise, Bangladesh,
as a growing economic country, the impact of covid-19 on its economy are enormous. This study
aims to identify the effect of covid-19 on food security in Bangladesh.
Key words: Food supply and demand, Food security, Lockdown, Panic Buying, Rumour,
Artificial Shortage, Government Responses.
Discussion:
Food supply is a system that requires proper maintenance to ensure food security(Siche, 2020)
But Covid-19 disrupts vital food supply systems such as the trade of one region to another
region, one country to another country, rural to the urban area etc. But many countries, including
Bangladesh, imposed lockdown to put down the spread of coronavirus. That negatively affected
human livelihood and economic growth. Bangladesh is dependent mainly on agriculture, where
different forms of agricultural sectors are very important to boost its economic growth. But the
agricultural productions were being disrupted in trade during lockdown due to lack of
transportation facilities. In addition, the employees who are involved in food supply were not
allowed to go their work due to illness or lockdown. So that labour shortage affects trade and
logistics, resulting in a massive food supply shortage(Zabir et al., 2020) .Besides, farmers
suffered a lot with fast-decomposing agricultural products like vegetables, fruits, fish and milk
etc. Marginal and small farmers who produce all these agricultural products are commercially
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