Understanding the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on sustainable agri-food system and agroecosystem decarbonization nexus: A review

JOURNAL OF CLEANER PRODUCTION

卷:318

Review

Adelodun, Bashir^1,2  Kareem, Kola Yusuff²  Kumar, Pankaj³  Kumar, Vinod³  Choi, Kyung Sook^1,4  Yadav, Krishna Kumar⁵  Yadav, Akanksha⁶  El-Denglawey, A.^7,13  Cabral-Pinto, Marina⁸  Son, Cao Truong⁹  Krishnan, Santhana^10,11  Khan, Nadeem A.¹² 

[1] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Dept Agr Civil Engn, Daegu 41566, South Korea

[2] Univ Ilorin, Dept Agr & Biosyst Engn, PMB 1515, Ilorin 240103, Nigeria

[3] Gurukula Kangri Deemed Be Univ, Dept Zool & Environm Sci, Agroecol & Pollut Res Lab, Haridwar 249404, Uttarakhand, India

[4] Kyungpook Natl Univ, Inst Agr Sci & Technol, Daegu 41566, South Korea

[5] Madhyanchal Profess Univ, Fac Sci & Technol, Ratibad, Bhopal 462044, India

[6] Banaras Hindu Univ, Inst Sci, Dept Home Sci, MMV, Varanasi 221005, Uttar Pradesh, India

[7] Taif Univ, Coll Univ Coll Turabah, Dept Phys, POB 11099, At Taif 21944, Saudi Arabia

[8] Univ Aveiro, Dept Geosci, Geobiotec Res Ctr, P-3810193 Aveiro, Portugal

[9] Vietnam Natl Univ Agr, Fac Nat Resources & Environm, Hanoi, Vietnam

[10] Univ Teknol Malaysia UTM, Fac Engn, Sch Civil Engn, Ctr Environm Sustainabil & Water Secur IPASA,Res, Skudai 81310, Malaysia

[11] Prince Songkla Univ, Fac Engn, Dept Environm Engn, PSU Energy Syst Res Inst, Hat Yai 90110, Songkhla, Thailand

[12] Jamia Millia Islamia, Dept Civil Engn, New Delhi, India

[13] South Valley Univ, Fac Sci, Dept Phys, Nano & Thin Film Lab, Qena 83523, Egypt

关键词: Sustainable agri-food system;    COVID-19;    Supply chain;    Production and consumption;    Circular economy;   

DOI  :  10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.128451

来源: Elsevier

【 摘 要 】

The existing finite natural resources have witnessed unsustainable usage in the past few years, especially for food production, with accompanying environmental devastation and ecosystem damage. Regrettably, the global population and consumption demands are increasing ceaselessly, leading to the need for more resources for food production, which could potentially aggravate the sustainability and ecosystem degradation issues, while stimulating drastic climate change. Meanwhile, the unexpected emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic and some implemented measures to combat its spread disrupted agricultural activities and the food supply chain, which also led to a reduction in ecosystem carbonization. This study sets out to explore policy framework and selected feasible actions that are being adopted during the COVID-19 pandemic, which could potentially reduce the emissions even after the pandemic to promote a resilient and sustainable agri-food system. In this study, we reviewed 27 articles that focus on the current state of the agri-food system in light of the COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the decarbonization of the agroecosystem. This review has taken the form of a systematic methodology in analyzing the adoption and implementation of various measures to mitigate the spread of COVID-19 on the impact of the agri-food system and reduction in ecosystem degradation. Up to 0.3 Mt of CO2 reduction from the agri-food system alone was reportedly achieved during the first 6 months of the pandemic in 23 European countries. The various adopted measures indicate that the circular economy approach is a panacea to achieve the needed sustainability in the agri-food system. Also, it dictates a need for a paradigm change towards improvement on localized food production that promotes sustainable production and consumption.

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