The evolving state of food security in Nigeria amidst the COVID-19 pandemic - A review

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought about a variety of challenges to Nigeria, the most populous country in Africa, especially in the area of health protection, food security, and availability. Food security is a concept that encompasses the availability and accessibility of safe nutritious foods to everyone and is dependent on the maintenance of the food supply chain. The food security status of Nigeria, a developing country that previously was problematic, has been worsened by the COVID-19 pandemic through several fronts including the disruption of the food supply chain, reduced agricultural output as a result of the global lockdown, and lack of access to agricultural facilities and products, such as fertilisers, manpower, and restrictive policies. These factors have generally resulted in food scarcity and price inflations, which increasingly threaten the political and economic stability of households within the country, leading to an insecure future for the people. This review examines how the food security status of households in Nigeria has been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and the effects of the lockdown and changing business environment on farmers' food production operations and marketing activities. It further evaluates the pandemics impacts on agro-industrial projects and governments' efforts in making the agriculture sector more sustainable. Strategies to improve local food production, accessibility and availability, through interventions, including financial incentives/grants to farmers, the revival of moribund agricultural agencies, and encouraging local production and processing of foods are explored.

The emergence of covid-19 and its pandemic potentialas a global health security threat and its effect on future life strategy

The novel Wuhan coronavirus, known as SARS-CoV-2, and the disease it causes, COVID-19, are declared as a global pandemic thus breaking havoc on lives and economies around the world.The extent of the outbreak of COVID-2019, which was discovered quite recently, and its massive impact on lives, societies as well as the economies of the affected countries is unprecedented. Cases of COVID -19 infection have so far been reported in 212 countries and territories where more than 71.2 million individuals have been affected till December 2020, resulting in more than 1.6 million deaths. Both, outside and inside China all around the world, COVID-19 is transmitted via human-to-human transmission,which has resulted in such a global outcome. To decrease the cases all the affected countries were under lockdown and eventhoug the cases were incresed dramaticlly. However, all the dailly activiets were moved to a virtual reality which adds more impact to investigate the future of the virtual reallity and its great impact during this hard time. This paper presents a critical study on the outbreak of COVID-19 by providing an analysis on the confirmed cases at Corona's first wave along with discussing the impact of the disease on social lives and economies all around the world.