Nutrition-sensitive lockdowns: conceptual framework and empirical insights from Africa during COVID-19.

Motivation: Countries facing challenges of nutrition security confront a trade-off when dealing with pandemics such as COVID-19. Implementing lockdown measures, widely used worldwide, can help "flatten the curve" (of disease), but such measures may worsen nutrition security.

Purpose: We aim to identify and justify nutrition-sensitive lockdown measures to reduce trade-offs with nutrition security.

'We would rather die from Covid-19 than from hunger' - Exploring lockdown stringencies in five African countries.

Facing COVID-19, African countries were confronted with a dilemma: enacting strict lockdowns to "flatten the curve" could potentially have large effects on food security. Given this catch-22 situation, there was widespread concern that Africa would suffer most from the pandemic. Yet, emerging evidence in early 2021 showed that COVID-19 morbidity remained low, while "biblical famines" have been avoided so far.

Novel Disease Host Resistances in the World Core Collection of .

Glasshouse and field investigations of the phenotypic expressions of resistance of a 97-member World Core Collection of subterranean clover () collected from its native Mediterranean habitat and representing approximately 80% of the total genetic diversity within the known 10,000 accessions of the species against the most important damping-off and root rot (, and ) and foliar (, , and ) pathogens were performed. An additional 28 diverse cultivars were also included. Associations of these genotypes among 18 disease parameters and 17 morphological traits, and among these disease parameters and 24 climatic and eco-geographic variables from their collection sites, were examined.