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    The response to COVID-19 and its impact on food systems

    Nov 23, 2020 2 minutes
    GLOBAL INSIGHT
    by
    Dr Tinashe Kapuya

    Earlier this year, the Brookings Institution provided a disconcerting view of sub-Saharan Africa’s (SSA) circumstances, when Jennifer Blanke noted that “COVID-19 exacerbated the negative effect of locust swarms in the Horn of Africa, regional insecurity and conflict, climate-change-related droughts and flooding, all of which already collectively destroyed crops and the livelihoods of millions of African smallholder farmers”.

    With the year being largely

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