GCRF_NF228 The COVID Observatories: Monitoring the interaction of pandemics, climate risks, & food systems among the most disadvantaged communities

土著人民被认为感染COVID的风险特别高，气候风险和社会经济压力加剧了这一风险。新出现的证据表明，国家对这一大流行的应对措施正在加剧知识产权的脆弱性，而对冠状病毒感染影响知识产权的独特途径的了解极少--如果有的话--则加剧了这一脆弱性。该项目将通过记录、监测和研究COVID如何与多种压力相互作用，影响全球IP的食物系统，共同产生加强复原力的知识和能力，来解决这一知识和政策差距。我们对食品的关注反映了这样一个事实，即COVID带来的许多风险源于与食品系统的相互作用，对于IP来说，食品系统由传统和现代元素组成。这项工作将与14个国家的24个不同的土著人民合作开展，并围绕以下目标构建：记录COVID的出现并审查其迄今对粮食系统的影响；监测和审查关于COVID对粮食系统的影响的实时生活经验、反应和观察；汇编和评估COVID是如何得到正式沟通和回应的；确定、审查和促进加强复原力的干预措施；以及审查对各低中等收入国家弱势人口的可推广的见解。定性数据收集的基础是社区内的“COVID观察员”网络、决策角色和已经在研究地区的研究人员，他们将在12个月的反思性日记中记录他们的经验和观察，捕捉大流行的不同阶段，以及多种因素如何随着时间的推移相互作用来创造脆弱性和复原力。这项工作的全球范围建立在研究区域的团队成员正在进行和完成的项目的基础上，利用了在DFID、UKRI、Wellcome Trust、FAO和IDRC等资助的工作中建立的相当大的能力和网络。

Indigenous Peoples (IPs) are believed to be at particularly high risk from COVID, exacerbated by climate risks and socio-economic stresses. There is emerging evidence that national responses to the pandemic are compounding the vulnerability of IPs, exacerbated by little--if any--understanding on the unique pathways through which COVID will affect IPs. This project will address this knowledge and policy gap by documenting, monitoring, and examining how COVID is interacting with multiple stresses to affect the food systems of IPs globally, co-generating knowledge and capacity to strengthen resilience. Our focus on food reflects the fact that many of the risks posed by COVID stem from interactions with food systems, which for IPs are composed of a mix of traditional and modern elements. The work will be undertaken in collaboration with 24 distinct Indigenous peoples in 14 countries, and is structured around objectives which will: document the emergence of COVID and examine its impacts on food systems to-date; monitor and examine the real-time lived experiences, responses, and observations on COVIDs impact on food systems; compile and assess how COVID is being officially communicated and responded to; identify, examine, and promote interventions to strengthen resilience; and examine scalable insights for vulnerable populations across LMICs. Qualitative data collection is underpinned by a network of 'COVID Observers' within communities, in decision making roles, and researchers already located in the study regions, who will document their experiences and observations in reflective diaries over a 12 month period, capturing different stages of the pandemic and how multiple factors interact over time to create vulnerability and resilience. The global scope of the work builds upon ongoing and completed projects by team members in the study regions, leveraging considerable capacity and networks developed in work funded by DFID, UKRI, Wellcome Trust, FAO, and IDRC, among others.