The situation we are going through with the COVID-19 pandemic is an unprecedented global crisis moment. It is not yet possible to make a clear conclusion about the severity, size, spread, and duration of the outbreak. However, the crisis dynamics triggered by the pandemic and pandemic started to show their effects in all areas of social life, especially health. One of the areas that are first affected by the shock wave created by the pandemic is food, which is one of the most basic needs for human life. Those who are looking for nutritional advice with food safety concerns at home, those who will be unemployed if they do not leave the house and who are concerned about eating, and those who produce all of our food, have to go to their fields and take care of their animals. The empty shelves, food orders carried by couriers, cargo deliveries, and products left in the field because they cannot be marketed ... All and more are the results of the pandemic reflected in the field of agriculture and food. It is predicted that the shocks triggered by the pandemic will lead to a multi-faceted food crisis in terms of the agri-food system where food production, supply, and consumption processes are organized. The common scene of dystopic scenarios that increase and diversify with the social mood created by the pandemic is food crises and widespread hunger. The priority of all development goals, which have been updated periodically in the last half-century, when the concept of development has become the agenda of the United Nations, is to guarantee a universal order in which no child will go hungry. In Current Sustainable Development Goals, this situation is stated as zero hunger target that nobody will be left behind. With the possible food crisis caused by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) pandemic, there may be millions of states that will be “back” shortly, especially the people in countries where food aid is already directed and in a position that is insecure in food self-sufficiency. warns and calls (FAO, 2020a). FAO states that the COVID-19 pandemic and the measures taken to combat the pandemic will create supply and demand-side shocks in the short term in agricultural production, food manufacturing, supply chain and access to food (FAO, 2020b)

Global food supply is already shrinking. There are several reasons for this contraction: Labor supply-related production restrictions due to measures taken and mobility restrictions; yield losses due to difficulties in accessing agricultural inputs; interruptions in food manufacturing; jams in the supply chain; Closing the channels where consumers access food.*1 Moreover, it is expected that the contraction in food supply will increase as the pandemic cannot be taken under control and spread (WFP, 2020). Shocks in demand are also multi-dimensional; At the first stage of the crisis, global demand rose instantaneously with stocking purchases due to panic. In other words, by envisaging many human-quarantine and social isolation practices, it has attracted future food expenditures in proportion to its income. On the other hand, the closure of catering companies was an important factor in the short-term reducing food demand. In the ongoing process, it is estimated that the demand for food will decrease further in the form of a multiplier affect with increasing unemployment, loss of income, and a decrease in purchasing power due to the economic contraction that cannot be predicted globally. These predictions are common to the dominant actors of the global agriculture and food system, but concerns differ. FAO reads this scene as an increased risk of hunger and a food crisis different from that before (FAO, 2020b). The transnational corporations and social movements of small-scale producers and workers working in the field of agriculture and food, transnational companies in the continuation of hunger, deepening the existing historical and global inequalities and making the global agri-food system vulnerable to crisis, World Trade Organization (WTO) They reveal the share of international organizations like and their lobby organizations. In contrast, they demonstrate that small producers and agro-ecology are the solutions to the problems experienced, together with examples, suggestions, and requests (IPC, 2020; IUF, 2020; Nyéléni ECA, 2020). Agriculture and food companies and their lobby organizations, although pointing to the risk of starvation in their statements, see this as a risk of global food trade disruption and shrinkage of the market volume, and they are spending their political powers with international institutions and governments to take measures to ease global trade. and Land Use Coalition, 2020) agricultural production of the pandemic that I discuss in general terms in These above and gleaning access my condition being experienced in the stock effects and medium- and long-term consequences, World's structural agricultural and food sectors and cyclical so-RUN along with thoughts, World It is necessary to consider the food crisis, famine and hunger scenarios that will be faced shortly as a warning not only as a disaster. The world is not self-sufficient in many agricultural products other than fruit and vegetables in recent years. Domestic production in various grain, cereals, and oilseed products does not meet the total needs of consumers and exporters, despite the long-term yield increase. This makes the agriculture and food system vulnerable to crises. The fact that input prices increased more than agricultural producers in recent years compared to product prices, and food inflation remained higher than the increase in real income of the majority of the social segments, which is a result of the same structural problems.

Falling income in agricultural production, increased financialization and insufficient institutional and economic support of the public increased rural poverty. Agricultural producers have to cut off from production under these conditions, or they can continue production only by borrowing. Increased indebtedness in agriculture, as another structural problem, makes the system even more fragile. All current tangible results of these structural problems and s life forms on manufactured products, production scale is, to realize the scale and geography, but vary according to production basin-your common insecurity for agricultural producers, instability, and futurelessness feeling against the crisis. World too, on a global scale will deepen with pandemic enters a period of economic recession with a fragile economic structure. The food crisis, whose duration and consequences cannot be estimated, covers structural problems and food security risks in agricultural production. The measures taken by the central government to combat the epidemic from the day the pandemic was announced and the financial policies that it has implemented to alleviate the economic effects of the epidemic include partial measures in the field of agriculture and food. However, the isolation and quarantine practices implemented to control the epidemic ignore the concrete conditions of rural life and agricultural production. Some of the measures announced to promote agricultural production have not yet been clarified, with some suggestions and implementation conditions that were brought up before the epidemic. In terms of facilitating access to food, it can be said that the central government does not cooperate with local governments by cooperating. Contrary to this, concrete steps are needed to overcome the uncertainty faced by the producers under current conditions and to reduce public anxiety regarding food security and safety. A democratic and transparent agricultural food policy is one of the factors that will eliminate the uncertainties faced by the producers when starting the planting season and will not cause the public to run to the markets and bakeries with the prohibition of curfew. It is possible to overcome the problems that the Kov-id-19 pandemic will create in the field of food and agriculture, by planning production in the short term, solving the problems in the food supply chain from the field to the table and ensuring that everyone has access to healthy, nutritious and healthy food. Therefore, it is imperative to make public policy changes that will result in short, medium, and long terms at local, national, and global levels.

In this respect, without wasting time;
● A participatory and democratic Agriculture and Food Board with the necessary powers should be established, and an emergency action plan on agriculture, food, and nutrition should be prepared within this framework. The board should include representatives of the relevant Ministry, local government representatives, participants from organizations representing all parties in the food supply chain, representatives of the professional organizations and consumer organizations in the field of health, agriculture, food.
● The central government should immediately explain the precautionary package for the agricultural sector, taking into account the opinions and recommendations of the Agriculture and Food Board
● Coordination and cooperation should be ensured among all relevant actors, leaving political conflicts aside. About the identification and solution of local problems, the central agriculture and food committee should be established in a democratic nature, which will work simultaneously and in coordination and have the necessary powers in practice.
● Full information, transparency, and effective supervision should be taken as basis in the preparation and implementation processes of the policies to be implemented.

With the establishment of the Agriculture and Food Boards in the centers and localities, the emergency action plan, which should be put into practice, should be two main areas of intervention in the short term: the public's access to fresh, healthy, nutritious and affordable food and supporting agricultural production.*2

Recommendations on food access
● Problems related to food access should be addressed, taking into account the priority of epidemic control and community health risks. In the food supply chain, a communication and coordination method, in which the problems arising due to the epidemic in all processes from production to consumption and the measures taken, are compiled locally and transferred to the central board. Such a method can ensure that the problems in the food supply chain are resolved quickly. A healthy and balanced nutrition program should be established by the Agriculture and Food Board, the issues that should be taken into consideration by the individuals regarding food safety should be determined and widely shared with the public. A program should be created in which the basic products identified in these lists are made accessible, price controls for these products should be implemented and coordination with all actors in the supply chain should be checked to ensure that these products are affordable and accessible to all segments of the society. The food supply of social segments should be urgently provided. Food access channels should be created for social segments that have difficulty in accessing sufficient and healthy food physically or economically due to measures taken within the scope of the epidemic, mobility constraints, or due to economic opportunities. Mukhtarships should act in coordination with municipalities and non-governmental organizations working in this field to identify families and individuals in need and deliver food. It should be aimed to direct and expand the applications that facilitate access to food, such as soup kitchens, food tents, food packages, and milk distribution programs organized by local and non-governmental organizations, to the places where the need is intense with a common planning program.

Fresh vegetables and fruits in locals, especially in areas with high urban populations, under the supervision and control of the local administration, in the city centers, where the citizens can make small-scale productions from the city or its surroundings, inappropriate conditions, at the peasant market or at the food sales points where the citizen will be easy to reach. It is essential to organize the operation necessary for the sale. Products that cannot be sold in the markets should be bought by the municipalities and delivered to the consumers in need within the scope of food distribution programs.

Suggestions to strengthen agricultural production The following scenarios should be created and analyzed by applying to the information of scientists and local boards with a perspective where citizens' access to fresh, healthy and sufficient food and self-sufficiency perspective are prioritized by the Agriculture and Food Board:

● The current agricultural production situation and epidemic should be made. impacts on agricultural production and food supply

● The effects of possible dynamics associated with the epidemic in the global agriculture and food trade on agriculture and food product markets Based on these analyzes and due diligence reports prepared by local boards and considering the structural problems of agricultural production, the production caused by epidemic and restrictions a production planning that takes into account the related problems should be made. Strategies should be prepared in the short, medium, and long term by considering different scenarios and shared with the public. In line with product reports, urgent production plans should be made at the scale of the agricultural basin for products with self-sufficiency risk. Export restrictions should be applied temporarily for these products. Arrangements should be made in the area of customs and logistics for export-oriented products that do not pose a risk to self-sufficiency, and export supports should be implemented by the new situation. Lands suitable for agricultural production, but not used for agricultural purposes, lands that belong to the treasury but are suitable for agricultural production are identified. - social need, supporting and sustaining the small producer and should be opened to production by considering the principles of ecological agriculture. All supports that have not been paid during the 2019 production season agricultural support payments that have been decided during the budget negotiations should be paid. All supports planned for 2020 must be paid in advance.*3

Farmers' loan debts to Some Banks, Agricultural Credit Cooperatives, and private banks, taxes, insurance, and similar payments should be postponed at least one year after the outbreak without interest.*4 Public supports and organizations needed to provide inputs such as fertilizer should be urgently implemented; The different tax practices applied to the inputs should be reset for a certain period of time. The fall in global oil prices should be reflected in pump prices. For this purpose, VAT and SCT applied on diesel should be reset for use in agricultural production. Electricity debts for agricultural and irrigation purposes should be erased and included in the scope of electricity support. A “Continue to Production” Fund should be created from the central budget for the agricultural sector. This fund should be directed to the relevant public institutions and used in areas such as direct input supply and distribution, direct product purchase, price control, credit and loss compensation*5 under appropriate conditions. The fund's budget allocation in these areas should be balanced, taking into account existing inequalities between agricultural holdings and regions, and reducing the inequalities, prioritizing products that are featured in healthy nutrition recommendations, and low self-sufficiency. In order to make payments to agricultural cooperatives whose cash flow is impaired due to market disruptions, funds should be allocated for fund-based agricultural organizations and / or interest-free loans from public banks under favorable conditions. Travel, shelter, nutrition, worker health and safety and sal -Minimum working conditions should be determined by considering anti-violence measures. In order to realize these conditions in production centers, a public and non-governmental partnership implementation and supervision system should be established.

Instead of a result, by adding the pandemic uncertainties to the existing problems related to agricultural production, yield loss in production, marketing problems, and price movements against the producer can accelerate the tendency to break from the production that has already been experienced for a long time. In this period, these measures proposed to motivate producers to produce should not be considered as measures that would save the day only, to ensure food security in the long term and to create a self-sufficient, sustainable, crisis-resistant agriculture-food system and to guarantee a safe rural life. it should be considered vital policies. The main reason why food concerns and related demands stand out with the COVID-19 pandemic is the fragile nature of the already existing food system. Once again, it has become apparent that the agri-food system can suffer severe injuries even in the face of short-term shocks, with its structure not dependent on ecology, dependent on external inputs, and based on long supply networks. In order not to face a devastation scenario in every crisis, participatory planning based on a process that involves different actors involves different scales and levels, takes into account regional and flood and cultural differences, open to international information sharing and collaboration. A public-based agricultural food policy is vital, based on the process. Only in this way was it possible to build an agriculture model that was resilient, sustainable, and that all segments of the society could benefit equally.

*1 It points to a risk that cannot be ignored for agricultural production and food supply, which is pointed out by the studies evaluating the social effects of the epidemic as a class assessment. As for all families, the outbreaks of agricultural purposes and laborers are higher than those who can stay at home to get sick and lose their lives.

*2 This report has been compiled from the statements of producers and professional organizations, experts, as well as sequential measures for increasing agricultural production and the use of access to food. Links to these explanations are included in the bibliography.

*3 Special records should be created for producers who do not register in the Farmer Registration System for various reasons so that they can benefit from the supports.

*4 Following the emergency, work has started for a debt relief program to be prepared with a participatory method for the settlement of agricultural sector debts.

*5 Compensatory measures implemented regionally during natural disasters should be implemented on an international scale. Local boards should carry out product-based regional damage assessment studies with the function of damage assessment commission. In the epidemic period, the products that are not in the harvesting period due to disruptions in the supply system and demand shock should be purchased and processed by direct purchase method, if possible, and offered for consumption.