COVID-19 and vulnerability

FAO's Emergency and Resilience Division Director explains COVID-19 challenges in vulnerable communities coping with high levels of hunger due to pre-existing crises.

The effects of social distancing will hit refugees and asylum seekers harder and in more complex ways than others as the informal networks they rely on disappear.

Power relations can mitigate resilience. A gendered lens to resilience theory in light of COVID-19 improves our understanding of people’s relationship with the environment.

Coronavirus highlights how risks converge in a complex world. The resilience of small-scale farmers and families living in poverty is being tested to the limits.

South Africa’s lockdown illuminates how spatial, economic and social inequalities characteristic of the apartheid continue post-apartheid.

Low-income areas in Kenya are unplanned, densely populated, and lack sanitation & clean water, leading to quick viral transmission and higher risk of COVID-19 outbreaks.

Refugees, asylum seekers, and IDPs must be included in the global response to CVOID-19. This is essential to protecting these communities and societies at large.

The current crisis in India has shown the country needs more investment in public sector institutions, especially in public health, for those most vulnerable.

The world is gripped by a truly global public health emergency. From New York to Wuhan, attention and resources are being directed to fight the spread of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus (officially, SARS-CoV-2). On March 11, 2020, the

Charities look for creative ways to protect women trapped in their homes with violent partners during COVID-19 shutdown.