Journal of Immunology and Immunopathology
  • Year: 2023
  • Volume: 25
  • Issue: 2

A Systematic Literature Review of COVID-19 and Climate Change Impacted Global Food Security: Early Assessment

  • Author:
  • Sina Salajegheh Tazerji1,2,*, Mohammad Hossein Kahalili3, Phelipe Magalhães Duarte4,**, Nesar Ahmed5, Mohd Iqbal Mohd Noor6,7, Hadi Tabarraei8, Ali Elahinia1, Mehdi Bahrami1, Pouneh Hajipour9,***, Sina Montajab9, Moeen Shirian1, Ava Shahrokhabadi10, Fatemeh Jahed10, Reyhaneh Kheiri11, Seyedeh Mandana Mojtahedzadeh12, Mohamed Fawzy13, Fatemeh Shahabinejad14, Niloofar Jafari15, Parisa Asgharpour1, Setareh Samaei1,****
  • Total Page Count: 15
  • Published Online: Mar 2, 2024
  • Page Number: 69 to 83

1Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

10Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Kazeroun Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kazeroun, Iran

11Department of Toxicology and Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

12Department of Comparative Bioscience, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, University of Tehran, Tehran, Iran

13Department of Virology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Suez Canal University, Ismailia, 41522, Egypt

14Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Kerman Medical School, Kerman, Iran

15Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Dentistry Medicine, Hormozgan Medical School, Hormozgan, Iran

2Young Researchers and Elites club, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran

3Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahrekord Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shahrekord, Iran

4Postgraduate Program in Animal Bioscience, Federal Rural University of Pernambuco (UFRPE), Recife, Pernambuco, Brazil

5School of Life and Environmental Sciences, Deakin University, Burwood, VIC 3125, Australia

6Faculty of Business Management, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM) (Pahang), 27600Raub, Pahang, Malaysia

7Institute for Biodiversity and Sustainable Development, Universiti Teknologi MARA (UiTM), 40450Shah Alam, Selangor, Malaysia

8Department of Veterinary Biomedical Science, Western College of Veterinary Medicine, University of Saskatchewan, 52 Campus Drive, SaskatoonSK S7N 5B4, Canada

9Department of Clinical Sciences, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman, Kerman, Iran

*(Corresponding author) email ids: sina.salajegheh@gmail.com and sina.salajegheh@srbiau.ac.ir

**duarte.phe@gmail.com

***pouneh.hajipour@vet.uk.ac.ir

****setarehsamaei.id@gmail.com

Online Published on 02 March, 2024.

Abstract

The Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) epidemic and climate change are rapidly influencing the global economy, including food security. Food security is now evidently intertwined with both challenges. However, research on the impact of these two factors on food security is still lacking. Therefore, this study reviews the literature, specifically focusing on the effects of climate change and COVID-19 on global food security. The current study incorporates various research designs and a PRISMA-based Review (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses). This review examined five peer-reviewed papers from 2020 to 2021, focusing on the impact of climate change and COVID-19 on global food security. The Science of the Total Environment published the most papers, followed by NPJ Science of Food, Environmental Resource Economics, and Reviews in Fisheries Science Aquaculture. The majority of papers were in the field of environmental sciences and ecology. However, the research has limitations. For example, only WOS (Web of Science) was used as the core source. “PubMed, Google Scholar, and grey literature were excluded from the list of scholarly databases, with only Web of Science (including Science Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts Humanities Citation Index) and Scopus deemed scholarly. Another restriction was the inclusion of only articles in English. The study concluded that the impact of COVID-19 and climate change on global food security fell under the umbrella of environmental ecology. A comprehensive literature review may examine and explain current trends and accessible research articles for future mitigation measures.

Keywords

Border closure, Extreme weather, Global warming, Greenhouse gas emissions, Home confinement, Lockdown