Seven case studies included in this volume have been prepared by 15 scholars from Armenia, the Kyrgyz Republic, the Russian Federation, and Uzbekistan. The studies cover various aspects of the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on food security and nutrition. Responding to the current challenges, the authors of the case studies have examined issues such as the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the nutrition of the population and on urban food systems in Uzbekistan and Armenia; measures to ensure uninterrupted organization of school meals in Armenia amid the pandemic; viable options for transforming systems of agricultural sales, taking the case of the Semeynaya Eco-Farm in the Leningrad region as an example; measures to reinforce food chains in vegetable farming and fruit growing in Armenia; proposals for streamlining the regulation of Russian wheat exports when facing price shocks; and methods for supporting the sustainability of animal husbandry, taking the Ak-Talaa district of the Kyrgyz Republic as an example
