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The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on people's lives and livelihoods around the world. It has led to tremendous loss of human life and presents an unprecedented public health challenge. Millions of people now face losing their livelihoods as nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of job loss. Informal economy workers are especially vulnerable as most lack social protections and healthcare access. Without income during lockdowns, many cannot feed themselves or their families. The pandemic has also disrupted global and domestic food supply chains, reducing access to nutritious diets. As major job losses occur, the food security and nutrition of millions is threatened, especially marginalized groups like small-scale farmers. To build back better from this

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Activity No. 4.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had devastating effects on people's lives and livelihoods around the world. It has led to tremendous loss of human life and presents an unprecedented public health challenge. Millions of people now face losing their livelihoods as nearly half of the global workforce is at risk of job loss. Informal economy workers are especially vulnerable as most lack social protections and healthcare access. Without income during lockdowns, many cannot feed themselves or their families. The pandemic has also disrupted global and domestic food supply chains, reducing access to nutritious diets. As major job losses occur, the food security and nutrition of millions is threatened, especially marginalized groups like small-scale farmers. To build back better from this

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Effects of Disasters on one’s Life

2nd Sem
Week No. 4
Activity No. 5 ( 50pts )
Direction: Below are some illustrations depicting expressions about COVID 19
pandemic. Read them silently and try to figure out by answering the questions
(
What troubling situations reminded you of the scenarios? Share the feelings
and opinions that you had related to the situations as shown in the illustrations.
(Write your thoughts and ideas below)

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an
unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and
social disruption caused by the pandemic is devastating. Millions of enterprises face an existential
threat. Nearly half of the world’s 3.3 billion global workforce are at risk of losing their livelihoods.
Informal economy workers are particularly vulnerable because the majority lack social protection
and access to quality health care and have lost access to productive assets. Without the means to
earn an income during lockdowns, many are unable to feed themselves and their families. For
most, no income means no food, or, at best, less food and less nutritious food.  

The pandemic has been affecting the entire food system and has laid bare its fragility. Border
closures, trade restrictions and confinement measures have been preventing farmers from
accessing markets, including for buying inputs and selling their produce, and agricultural workers
from harvesting crops, thus disrupting domestic and international food supply chains and reducing
access to healthy, safe and diverse diets. The pandemic has decimated jobs and placed millions
of livelihoods at risk. As breadwinners lose jobs, fall ill and die, the food security and nutrition of
millions of women and men are under threat, with those in low-income countries, particularly the
most marginalized populations, which include small-scale farmers and indigenous peoples, being
hardest hit.

We must recognize this opportunity to build back better. We are committed to pooling our
expertise and experience to support countries in their crisis response measures and efforts to
achieve the Sustainable Development Goals. We need to develop long-term sustainable strategies
to address the challenges facing the health and agri-food sectors. Priority should be given to
addressing underlying food security and malnutrition challenges, tackling rural poverty, in
particular through more and better jobs in the rural economy, extending social protection to all,
facilitating safe migration pathways and promoting the formalization of the informal economy. We
must rethink the future of our environment and tackle climate change and environmental
degradation with ambition and urgency. Only then can we protect the health, livelihoods, food
security and nutrition of all people, and ensure that our ‘new normal’ is a better one.

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