Policy Brief 55: Food in the time of coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid
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Date
2020-04-01
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Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies
Abstract
The social legitimacy of the ‘COVID-19 lockdown’, government’s regulations imposed to contain the spread of the virus, is most likely to run aground unless an urgent plan can be made to ensure that everyone in the country has access to sufficient food. And it’s not looking good.
Based on interviews, statements by various organisations and our own experience, here is our summary of the already-evident impacts of the lockdown on poor people’s access to food, and on the informal food economy – from small farmers to street vendors and spaza shops – that is so important in meeting people’s daily food needs.
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coronavirus, covid-19, ruth hall, food security, fisheries, small-scale, farming, food
Citation
Hall, R., Isaacs, M., Du Toit, A., Ramantsima, K., Mtero, F., Gumede, N., Yeni, S. and Monjane, B., 2020. Policy Brief 55: Food in the time of coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid. Belville: Institute for Poverty, Land and Agrarian Studies.