Leveraging digital tools for adaptive food systems in India during the COVID-19 lockdown
A look at how digital tools and technologies have been and could be used to overcome coronavirus-related challenges to agricultural supply chains. Read more...
Preparing for the ‘New Normal’ – Agriculture amid the COVID-19 pandemic
COVID-19 continues to claim lives and disrupt livelihoods around the world. While strengthening immediate relief activities Arun Balamatti recommends a few priorities Read more...
Double burden of COVID-19: Declining livelihood opportunities and aspiration failure among poor people
The COVID-19 pandemic is not only a health crisis but an economic crisis too. In particular, the anxiety and fear COVID-19 has Read more...
Stronger local food value chains can leave Eastern and Southern Africa more resilient post COVID-19
COVID-19 has seized the drylands of Eastern and Southern Africa (ESA), home to some of the world’s most vulnerable people. Mitigation efforts Read more...
Eating well: If instructions won’t work, perhaps music and dance will
Information alone does not change eating habits. Together with the Billian Music Family in Mathare, we experiment with trend-setting music. You probably place a lot Read more...
Impact of COVID-19 on women working in the domestic sector in Hyderabad
The recently extended lockdown in India, now in force until 3 May, is a necessary measure to slow the spread of COVID-19 Read more...
The coronavirus pandemic exposes a global hunger crisis as well as a health emergency
The direct consequences of a novel disease outbreak like Covid-19 are immediate and obvious: rising numbers of illnesses and deaths. But the Read more...
8 food security implications of the COVID-19 crisis
From disrupting agricultural input supply chains to carving out new crisis response roles for social media, the pandemic’s impacts on the state Read more...
Is a pandemic the time to think about genebanks?
Perhaps you think that the middle of a global pandemic is not an appropriate time to be discussing seed banks. Think again. Read more...
Seeds of rural recovery: States must consider accommodating returnee migrants in small-farming
Small and marginal farmers remain the dominant food producer and major workforce in India, and the country would rely on them to Read more...