Post-Pandemic Crisis: Global Leadership and Our New Food Emergency

The current global pandemic has demonstrated that food availability (production) and food accessibility (price and inflation) are two major systemic flaws in the global agriculture food supply chain (AFSC) on the food chain supply that has severely impacted the marginalized poor in India as well as the middle/lower classes in the USA. The pandemic has also exposed the dearth of crisis global leader (CGL) competencies. The massive amounts of food loss and waste in both case countries have created food deserts, an epidemic of hunger/food insecurity, and a huge carbon footprint. The AFSC has both upstream and downstream factors that have added to poverty and food scarcity by increasing prices, further creating widespread food insecurity for the masses. Government intervention (lack of) has added a burden to provide a solution to this severe and immediate food shortage problem. Although food systems are deteriorating worldwide, innovation such as blockchain technology, inculcating competency skillsets for our future global leaders, a systematic approach to improving local organic farming, and the involvement of nonprofit organizations at all state levels is needed to regulate this massive break in the food supply system in both developing and developed nations.