About this Research Topic
COVID-19 directly influenced the world in many ways. However, its impact on reducing the global poor’s ability to be resilient in the face of climate change may be one of its longest-lasting impacts. The COVID-19 crisis has potentially set back international development (such as the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)) efforts by decades, and with the advent of new challenges due to climate change, resources for development may be stretched thin at multiple levels for decades to come.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential for the easy exchange of research for development (R4D), innovations, and indigenous knowledge, that ultimately may improve access to, and uptake of, these materials for target audiences, such that they will have the conceptual tools needed to be resilient in the face of climate change.
We welcome articles that deal with these aforementioned issues within the context of ICT tools, frameworks, and uses, both within theoretical and pragmatic contexts. The goal of this Research Topic is to respond, in the context of ICT, to the following questions:
• How does food justice examine questions of access to healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food, as well as ownership and control of land, credit, knowledge, technology, etc., and COVID-19?
• How do local and global social movements, civil society organizations, and agrarian networks challenge neoliberalism for failing to provide food security?
• How do institutions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, education, and household dynamics contribute to patterns of food production and consumption, and how has COVID-19 shifted these institutions?
Suggested themes for this Research Topic that focus on information and communication technologies (ICT), resilience, climate change, and effects of COVID-19 include:
-Sustainable development goals;
-Legacies of colonialism and neoliberalism;
-Human rights, equity, and social justice;
-Old and new digitalization;
-Climate action, environment, resource efficiency, and agriculture;
-Food security, sustainable agriculture, and climate change;
-Gender relations;
-Corporate social responsibility;
-COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the livelihoods and food security of rural communities;
-Resilience of rural livelihoods to the COVID-19 crisis;
-Indigenous approaches to sustainable development research.
Information and communication technologies (ICTs) have the potential for the easy exchange of research for development (R4D), innovations, and indigenous knowledge, that ultimately may improve access to, and uptake of, these materials for target audiences, such that they will have the conceptual tools needed to be resilient in the face of climate change.
We welcome articles that deal with these aforementioned issues within the context of ICT tools, frameworks, and uses, both within theoretical and pragmatic contexts. The goal of this Research Topic is to respond, in the context of ICT, to the following questions:
• How does food justice examine questions of access to healthy, nutritious, culturally appropriate food, as well as ownership and control of land, credit, knowledge, technology, etc., and COVID-19?
• How do local and global social movements, civil society organizations, and agrarian networks challenge neoliberalism for failing to provide food security?
• How do institutions such as gender, race and ethnicity, social class, education, and household dynamics contribute to patterns of food production and consumption, and how has COVID-19 shifted these institutions?
Suggested themes for this Research Topic that focus on information and communication technologies (ICT), resilience, climate change, and effects of COVID-19 include:
-Sustainable development goals;
-Legacies of colonialism and neoliberalism;
-Human rights, equity, and social justice;
-Old and new digitalization;
-Climate action, environment, resource efficiency, and agriculture;
-Food security, sustainable agriculture, and climate change;
-Gender relations;
-Corporate social responsibility;
-COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on the livelihoods and food security of rural communities;
-Resilience of rural livelihoods to the COVID-19 crisis;
-Indigenous approaches to sustainable development research.
Keywords: Covid 19, ICTs, food security, SDGs, social justice, agrarian networks, institutions, information and communication technologies, rural livelihoods
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