Countries need to increase resilience. It means investing in early warning systems, health and insurance. It means having safety net mechanisms, functioning infrastructure linked to value chains, and access to healthy diets. This will help people cope when disaster strikes.

Home gardens have taken off in #Zimbabwe🇿🇼, particularly as #COVID19 has increased #foodinsecurity. Read Food Tank: foodtank.com/news/2021/07/z… Also check out #DFCNepal🇳🇵@PepijnSchrein @go_vegetables @tilmanbrueck's work on #gardening & #foodchoice‼️(driversoffoodchoice.org/wp-content/upl…)

📅 Join us for the COVID-19 Impacts in Africa Webinar series next month. The three sessions will provide a forum to share and discuss new evidence & policy guidelines on how people in Africa respond to and cope with the COVID-19 pandemic. To register: igzev-de.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Join us Monday for #webinar on #mentalhealth & #COVID19 in #Africa. Jule Beck & Uni Konstanz Department of Politics & Public Admіn will share findings from Life with Corona with Anke Hoeffler 💙 & CISM Manhiça. Data from #Uganda, #Tanzania, #SierraLeone & #Mozambique. Register: tinyurl.com/2p87uk9f @BMBF_Bund

Excited to present insights from the ⁦Life with Corona on the role of food insecurity for mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic in #Africa at the hybrid #ANH2023 research conference this afternoon!

Experiences with water & food security are intimately intertwined. Sera L. Young addressed the critical interventions for the U.S. to become a leader in water security policy & improve the state of domestic & global food security: bit.ly/3yBBjhN

Read our paper published today The Lancet on how women’s empowerment is associated with greater crop diversity among agricultural households & the important role of women in global food production. shorturl.at/dek58

🥳Excited that our article on COVID-19, food insecurity and mental health in Africa is out in International Journal of Public Health! 👉bit.ly/48AKr9d Life with Corona Universität Konstanz ISDC Berlin IGZ Liliana Abreu @tilmanbrueck Anke Hoeffler 💙 #COVID19 #FoodSecurity #mentalhealth #OpenAccess

The schedule for the Workshop on the Economics of Pandemic Preparedness is finally available! Check out the great lineup of participants: