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COVID-19 AND AGRICULTURE: A STORY OF RESILIENCE
26 August 2020 Page: 1/12 Original: English 1 COVID-19 AND agriculture : A STORY OF RESILIENCE INFORMATION NOTE1 Key points The COVID-19 outbreak and its rapid spread caught many governments and agricultural producers by surprise, prompting immediate policy responses by WTO members. Many of the initial measures were expected to impact negatively on the agricultural sector. But agriculture has in fact shown RESILIENCE , with a trade performance that has fared better than other sectors. The initial response measures were aimed at addressing members most urgent concerns: containing the virus to save lives, and ensuring food security at home. In addition to lockdowns, these measures included policies that both facilitated and restricted agriculture trade: new sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures and tariff reductions, as well as export restrictions.
followed by a second phase of policies seeking to mend broken supply chains and to help agricultural ... national work force. While most regions saw agricultural exports hold up relatively well, or even increase, exports from ... America and South America and some LDCs ( Myanmar, Zambia)e.g. but expanded in the rest of , ...
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