Covid-19. Crisis, Agrarian Issues, Rural Livelihoods: An Agrarian Questions Resource
Covid-19 and economic lockdowns have led to crisis conditions in agriculture and for rural populations across the globe as supply chains are disrupted, crops are left to rot and seasonal migrant work in agriculture and beyond abruptly have disappeared. There will be winners and losers as supply chains restructure and demand stay high for certain products in some parts of the world. The effects will be felt for years to come.
Since the onset of the crisis scholars and activists have sought to map and analyse the developments, also from rural and agrarian perspectives.
Agrarian Questions are joining these efforts by providing this resource: a continuously updated compilation of weblinks to studies, blog posts and webinars on how the pandemic is impacting rural and agrarian populations and regions across the world.
Africa (General)
Social Reproduction during the Pandemic: Women, Food, Labour & Time in Three African Countries (Webinar), May 06, 2021. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZpp_cF97hY
Briefing note on “Covid-19 and African food security”, August 12, 2020. PLAAS https://www.plaas.org.za/briefing-note-on-covid-19-and-african-food-security/
How COVID-19 is impacting and changing East Africa’s agri-food systems, August 07, 2020. Giulia Nicolini, IIED https://www.iied.org/how-covid-19-impacting-changing-east-africas-agri-food-systems
Choc waves: how coronavirus shook the cocoa market, July 30, 2020. Emiko Terazono and Neil Munshi https://www.ft.com/content/37aa0ac8-e879-4dc2-b751-3eb862b12276
African land rights in the time of the coronavirus (Webinar), May 28, 2020. PLAAS with others https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4T6z4DegQ
A pandemic-driven food crisis in Africa can be prevented, April 19, 2020. Cedric Habiyaremye https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/pandemic-driven-food-crisis-africa-prevented-200419164618759.html
Africa’s Huge Locust Swarms Are Growing at the Worst Time, April 16, 2020. Matt Simon https://www.wired.com/story/africas-huge-locust-swarms-are-growing-at-the-worst-time/
Argentina
Covid-19 and the marginalisation of indigenous groups in Argentina, March 2021. Benjamin Haas, Tobias Mönch and Lara Cervi https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396821996214
Informe ampliado: efectos socioeconómicos y culturales de la pandemia COVID-19 y del aislamiento social, preventivo y obligatorio en los Pueblos Indígenas en Argentina, Various authors. June 2020 https://drive.google.com/file/d/16QgXpoBn2EHtg8KcqaSCR3WBzjuyAxkf/view
Lockdown affecting agribusiness and local food producers differently in Argentina. Challenges and opportunities for food sovereignty, April 28, 2020. Andrea P. Sarosa Varrotti https://casasouth.org/argentina-pandemic-food-agriculture/
Brazil
Brazil: Indigenous People Demand Land Demarcation Against COVID, September 18, 2020. https://www.telesurenglish.net/news/brazil-indigenous-people-demand-land-demarcation-against-covid–20200918-0021.html
The Brazilian Amazon in Times of COVID-19: from crisis to transformation?, July 03, 2020. , and https://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S1414-753X2020000100910&tlng=en
Disaster looms for indigenous Amazon tribes as COVID-19 cases multiply, June 12, 2020. Scott Wallace https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/2020/06/disaster-looms-indigenous-amazon-tribes-covid-19-cases-multiply/
Pandemics and the specter of hunger in Brazil: a multidimensional crisis and a negationist president, April 30, 2020.
The dangers of legalising public land theft in Brazil : agribusiness, deforestation, and the melting pot of future pandemics, April 30, 2020. GRAIN https://grain.org/e/6454
Burkina Faso
Could Covid-19 Worsen Food Insecurity in Burkina Faso?, October 26, 2020. P.R. Zidouemba, S.R. Kinda & I.M. Ouedraogo https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00324-6
China
Agriculture, Food and Nutrition Security Under Covid-19: Lessons from China, June 2020. Shenggen Fan http://ras.org.in/agriculture_food_and_nutrition_security_under_covid_19
Local food systems and COVID-19: A look into China’s responses, April 08, 2020. Shulang Fei and Jia Ni http://www.fao.org/in-action/food-for-cities-programme/news/detail/en/c/1270350/
Chinese livestock farms struggle under COVID-19 restrictions, March 26, 2020.
Planters, plagued: Covid-19 is making it harder to grow food in China, March 14, 2020. Zhaoquanying https://www.economist.com/china/2020/03/14/covid-19-is-making-it-harder-to-grow-food-in-china
The coronavirus will delay agricultural export surges promised in trade deal with China, March 13, 2020. Wendong Zhang and Tao Xiong https://theconversation.com/the-coronavirus-will-delay-agricultural-export-surges-promised-in-trade-deal-with-china-132227
Colombia
Coronavirus and the Colombian Countryside, May 05, 2020. Alex Diamond https://nacla.org/news/2020/05/05/coronavirus-and-colombian-countryside-espanol
Ecuador
Court forces Ecuador government to protect Indigenous Waorani during COVID-19, June 26, 2020. Kimberley Brown https://news.mongabay.com/2020/06/court-forces-ecuador-government-to-protect-indigenous-waorani-during-covid-19/
De Quienes Nos Alimentan: La Pandemia y los Derechos Campesinos en Ecuador, May 2020. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1UGIHA18Lx5FupTVrpgGLjVnNtTUXivYY/view
Ethiopia
Emerging Medium-Scale Tenant Farming, Gig Economies, and the COVID-19 Disruption: The Case of Commercial Vegetable Clusters in Ethiopia, October 21, 2020. B. Minten, B. Mohammed & S. Tamru https://doi.org/10.1057/s41287-020-00315-7
European Union (General)
Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on apple orchards in Europe, May 2020. Kévin Tougerron and Thierry Hance https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2021.103097
Under Force Majeure: Pastoralists and Covid-19 in Mediterranean Europe, May 08, 2020. Michele Nori https://pastres.org/2020/05/08/under-force-majeure-pastoralists-and-covid-19-in-mediterranean-europe/
Without rights for farm workers, EU’s food supplies are at risk, April 7, 2020. Giulia Lagana https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/rights-workers-eu-food-supplies-risk-200407070604903.html
Germany
[Thou shalt] Honour the asparagus!: Romanian Agricultural Labour in Germany during the COVID-19 Season, May 11, 2020. Manuela Boatca https://www.theleftberlin.com/post/thou-shalt-honour-the-asparagus
Ghana
The ravages of COVID-19 measures in Ghana for women in the food system, February 19, 2021. Akosua Keseboa Darkwah https://www.plaas.org.za/the-ravages-of-covid-19-measures-in-ghana/
Global
Rural populations face heightened COVID-19 risks, May 12, 2021. https://www.ifpri.org/blog/rural-populations-face-heightened-covid-19-risks
This food crisis is different: COVID-19 and the fragility of the neoliberal food security order, October 11, 2020. Jennifer Clapp and William Moseley https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2020.1823838
Covid-19 has exposed the world’s fragile, complex food supply chains, September 24, 2020. Wendell Steavenson https://www.ft.com/content/65ad7504-b7de-4df4-8747-f669a2e541fe
Contemporary pathogens and the capitalistworld food system, September 23, 2020. Haroon Akram-Lodhi https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1834361
COVID-19 exacerbates existing inequities in the agri-food labour force, August 31, 2020. Sarah Berger Richardson https://policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/august-2020/covid-19-exacerbates-existing-inequities-in-the-agri-food-labour-force/
From biomedical to politico-economic crisis: the food system in times of Covid-19, August 05, 2020. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2020.1794843
Is COVID-19 causing a global food crisis? (Podcast), July 10, 2020. Chris Smith, Maximo Torero, Shailaja Fennell https://www.thenakedscientists.com/podcasts/short/covid-19-causing-global-food-crisis
Growing back stronger: Choosing resilient food systems in the wake of Covid-19, July 02, 2020. Jan Douwe van der Ploeg https://www.tni.org/en/foodsystems
Agroecology and the reconstruction of a post-COVID-19 agriculture, July 02, 2020. Miguel A. Altieri and Clara I. Nicholls https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03066150.2020.1782891
Covid-19 and the World Food System, 2020. A. Haroom Akram-Lodhi. https://www.ppesydney.net/content/uploads/2020/06/5_Akram-Lodhi.pdf
Coronavirus could have a devastating impact on land rights, but it doesn’t have to, June 17, 2020. Pubudini Wickramaratne https://views-voices.oxfam.org.uk/2020/06/coronavirus-could-have-a-devastating-impact-on-land-rights-but-it-doesnt-have-to/
Covid-19 and food systems: relational geographies, food insecurity and relocalisation, June 10, 2020. Damien Maye https://blog.geographydirections.com/2020/06/10/covid-19-and-food-systems-relational-geographies-food-insecurity-and-relocalisation/
Coronavirus y deterioro ecológico: Lo que no se dice, June 2020. Yolanda Cristina Massieu Trigo http://www.forumenlinea.com/index.php/36-revistas/forum-en-linea-381/1180-coronavirus-ydeterioro-
Farmers on the Frontline: Resilience and food security in a post-coronavirus world (Web Seminar), May 28, 2020. IFAD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYWCUsqyA54&feature=emb_title
Balancing the Pandemic, Biodiversity and Farming (Podcast), May 25, 2020. IFAD https://www.ifad.org/en/web/latest/podcast/asset/41929459
Covid-19 and agriculture: the coming contradictory hunger pandemic, May 11, 2020. Felix Anderl https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/covid-19-and-agriculture-coming-contradictory-hunger-pandemic/
Spoiled Milk, Rotten Vegetables and a Very Broken Food System, May 08, 2020. Jennifer Clapp https://www.nytimes.com/2020/05/08/opinion/coronavirus-global-food-supply.html
Covid-19’s Third Shock Wave: The Global Food Crisis, May 01, 2020. Michael T. Klare https://www.thenation.com/article/society/coronavirus-global-food-crisis/
‘Never Let a Good Crisis Go to Waste’:The Covid-19 Pandemic and the Opportunity for Food Sovereignty, April 2020. Walden Bello https://focusweb.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/Covid19-Pandemic-Bello.pdf
COVID-19 and the Crisis in Food Systems (Special Report in English, Spanish and French), April 2020. iPES Food http://www.ipes-food.org/pages/covid19
COVID-19 and the food and agriculture sector: Issues and policy responses, April 29, 2020. OECD http://www.oecd.org/coronavirus/policy-responses/covid-19-and-the-food-and-agriculture-sector-issues-and-policy-responses-a23f764b/
Untangling famine from pandemic means untangling food from capital, April 28, 2020. Stian Rice https://booktimist.com/2020/04/28/untangling-famine-from-pandemic-means-untangling-food-from-capital/
The solution to food insecurity is food sovereignty, April 25, 2020. Jeongyeol Kim and Pramesh Pokharel https://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/opinion/solution-food-insecurity-food-sovereignty-200425143803134.html
The Corporate Food System Is Making the Coronavirus Crisis Worse, April 22, 2020. Walden Bello https://fpif.org/the-corporate-food-system-is-making-the-coronavirus-crisis-worse/
COVID-19 and the impact on agriculture and food security, April 20, 2020. ILO https://www.ilo.org/sector/Resources/publications/WCMS_742023/lang–en/index.htm
COVID-19 and food insecurity: what is the role of international cooperation?, April 18, 2020. Thiago Lima, Atos Dias, Igor Palma, Igor Palma & Lucas Amorim http://www.agrariansouth.org/2020/04/18/covid-19-and-food-insecurity-what-is-the-role-of-international-cooperation/
Recipe for Disaster – Globalised food systems, inequality and COVID-19 (Webinar), April 15, 2020. Transnational Institute https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9A6WkeqPss
COVID-19 and food security in vulnerable countries, April 14, 2020. Pamela Coke Hamilton https://unctad.org/en/pages/newsdetails.aspx?OriginalVersionID=2331
COVID-19 reminds us that our food production model might kill us, March 24, 2020. Mariel Aguilar-Støen https://www.sum.uio.no/forskning/blogg/terra-nullius/covid-19-reminds-us-that-our-food-production-might-kill-us.html
COVID-19: Several members of La Via Campesina highlight the vulnerability of peasants and workers, March 18, 2020. La Via Campesina https://viacampesina.org/en/covid-19-several-members-of-la-via-campesina-highlight-the-vulnerability-of-peasants-and-workers/
India
Rural Women and the Pandemic (Podcast), May 04, 2021. S. Niyati and Foundation for Agrarian Studies http://fas.org.in/young-scholars-corner-2/
The COVID-19 Induced Disruptions across Groundnut Value Chain: Empirical Evidence from South India, February 05, 2021. Ravi Nandi et al https://doi.org/10.3390/su13041707
How COVID-19 has amplified woes of Bihar’s maize farmers, October 26, 2020. Pushya Mitra https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/india/how-covid-19-has-amplified-woes-of-bihars-maize-farmers-6015291.html
The “invisible” among the marginalised: Do gender and intersectionality matter in the Covid-19 response?, August 2020. Manisha Dutta, Drishti Agarwal and M Sivakami https://ijme.in/articles/the-invisible-among-the-marginalised-do-gender-and-intersectionality-matter-in-the-covid-19-response/?galley=pdf
The Coronavirus Lockdown Has Been a War on India’s Informal Labour, August 22, 2020. Harsh Mander and Amitanshu Verma https://thewire.in/labour/coronavirus-lockdown-informal-labour
Punjab: Land struggle in the time of pandemic, July 31, 2020. Gaurav Bansal https://frontline.thehindu.com/the-nation/punjab-land-struggle-in-the-time-of-pandemic/article32024163.ece?homepage=true
Lockdown in India: Exodus as an expression of grievance, July 15, 2020. Manish Maskara https://www.compas.ox.ac.uk/2020/lockdown-in-india-exodus-as-an-expression-of-grievance/
Five issues hidden behind the exodus of India’s migrant labour under the Covid-19 lockdown, July 14, 2020. Alpa Shah and Jens Lerche https://blog.geographydirections.com/2020/07/14/five-issues-hidden-behind-the-exodus-of-indias-migrant-labour-under-the-covid-19-lockdown/
The Panchshil Buddha Vihar Group: Dalit migrant life and group solidarity during the pandemic, July 13, 2020. Ajeet Kumar Pankaj https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/01609513.2020.1793054
The Threats to Tribal Life and Livelihood Amid the Pandemic in India, July 12, 2020. The New Leam https://www.thenewleam.com/2020/05/the-threats-to-tribal-life-and-livelihood-amid-the-pandemic-in-india/
Reset rural job policies, recognise women’s work, July 04, 2020. Madhura Swaminathan https://www.thehindu.com/opinion/lead/reset-rural-job-policies-recognise-womens-work/article31984168.ece
India’s fisheries: Past, present, and future, July 02, 2020. Mahima Jaini https://idronline.org/indias-fisheries-past-present-and-future/
COVID-19 Livelihoods Survey: Compilation of findings, June 2020. Centre for Sustainable Employment, Azim Premji University https://cse.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Compilation-of-findings-APU-COVID-19-Livelihoods-Survey_Final.pdf
Social Policy, COVID-19 and Impoverished Migrants: Challenges and Prospects in Locked Down India, June 26, 2020. Sohini Sengupta and Manish K. Jha https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/2516602620933715
Covid-19 and the Rural Non-Farm Sector, June 2020. RAS Editorial http://ras.org.in/covid_19_and_the_rural_non_farm_sector
Impact of Covid-19 on Indian Villages, June 2020. Tapas Singh Modak, Sandipan Baksi and Deepak Johnson http://www.ras.org.in/impact_of_covid_19_on_indian_villages
Covid-19, Food Insecurity and the Need for Government Action, June 2020. RAS Editorial http://www.ras.org.in/covid_19_food_insecurity_and_the_needfor_government_action
COVID-19: Dominant-caste panchayats in Punjab pass resolutions to reduce labour wages, June 28, 2020. Jatinder Kaur Tur https://caravanmagazine.in/labour/covid19-dominant-caste-panchayats-in-punjab-pass-resolutions-to-reduce-labour-wages
How Kachchh’s Nomadic Pastoralists Are Dealing With COVID-19’s Challenges, June 28, 2020. Natasha Maru https://science.thewire.in/environment/rabari-kachchh-nomadic-pastoralists-livestock-lockdown-movement-restriction/
Fifty Days of Lockdown in India: A View from Two Villages in Tamil Nadu, June 19, 2020. Grace Carswell, Geert De Neve and S Yuvaraj https://www.epw.in/engage/article/fifty-days-lockdown-india-view-two-villages-tamil
India’s Employment and Migration Crisis in the wake of COVID-19, June 16, 2020. Amit Basole with Aditya Ray http://fass.open.ac.uk/school-social-sciences-global-studies-geography/news/indias-employment-and-migration-crisis-wake
How a bunch of Mumbai’s fishers kept their businesses afloat amid coronavirus lockdown, Himanshu Nitnaware. June 14, 2020 https://scroll.in/article/964307/how-a-bunch-of-mumbais-fishers-kept-their-businesses-afloat-amid-coronavirus-lockdown
COVID-19 Spells doom for an already shrinking Rural Female Workforce, June 03, 2020. Khabar Lahariya https://khabarlahariya.org/covid-19-spells-doom-for-an-already-shrinking-rural-female-workforce/
Way-Forward: COVID-19 and Indian Agriculture (Webinar). June 01, 2020. https://www.facebook.com/watch/live/?v=3118548698203007&ref=watch_permalink
MGNREGS and the Pandemic Crisis: Reflections from Tripura, May 26, 2020. Ranjini Basu and Tapas Singh Modak http://fas.org.in/blog/mgnregs-and-the-pandemic-crisis-reflections-from-tripura/
COVID-19 Lockdown: The Public Distribution of Foodgrain, May 24, 2020. Vikas Rawal and Manish Kumar https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/24/covid-19-lockdown-and-the-pds/
“Diarrhea, Dehydration, Hunger, Exhaustion”: India’s Rural Poor Suffer Most Under Lockdown, May 22, 2020. P. Sainath for Democracy Now https://www.democracynow.org/2020/5/22/p_sainath_rural_india_coronavirus_neoliberal
COVID-19 Lockdown: The Crisis of Rural Employment, May 20, 2020. Vikas Rawal and Manish Kumar https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/20/the-crisis-of-rural-employment/
COVID-19 Lockdown: Impact on Agriculture, May 20, 2020. Vikas Rawal and Manish Kumar https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/20/impact-on-indian-agriculture/
Choking the Lifeline of the Rural Economy: MGNREGS during the COVID-19 Lockdown, May 2020. Manish Kumar https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/05/12/mgnregs-during-the-covid-19-lockdown/
In Banda- Men may not work but women’s unpaid work has spiked up, May 14, 2020. Khabar Lahariya https://khabarlahariya.org/in-banda-men-may-not-work-but-womens-unpaid-work-has-spiked-up/
Migrant Agricultural Workers in India and the COVID-19 lockdown, May 07, 2020. Ranjini Basu https://focusweb.org/migrant-agricultural-workers-in-india-and-the-covid-19-lockdown/
What If Migrant Workers Don’t Return? Jean Drèze Explains Crisis, May 08, 2020. https://www.thequint.com/news/india/jean-dreze-video-interview-corona-pandemic-impact-migrant-workers-livelihoods-economic-crisis
COVID-19’s Disruption of India’s Transformed Food Supply Chains, May 02, 2020. Thomas Reardon, Ashok Mishra, Chandra S R Nuthalapati, Marc F Bellemare, David Zilberman https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/18/commentary/covid-19s-disruption-indias-transformed-food.html
Environment Vs Economy: An Approach That Exposes India To COVID-19-Like Infections, May 02, 2020. Tish Sanghera, Disha Shetty https://www.indiaspend.com/environment-vs-economy-indias-flawed-logic-that-exposes-it-to-covid-19-like-infections/
Migrant Labour in the Shadow of the Pandemic (Webinar), May 02, 2020. Ravi Srivastava for Institute for Human Development and Indian Society of Labour Economics https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y5MOaqN9SY
Covid-19 Pandemic: Impact on Agriculture (Web Lecture), May 02, 2020. Abhijit Sen for Society for Social and Economic Research https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTqURK2RdzE
Rural Distress, May 08, 2020. Project on Agrarian Relations in India, Foundation for Agrarian Studies https://frontline.thehindu.com/cover-story/article31404299.ece?homepage=true
Unlocking the Urban: Reimagining Migrant Lives in Cities Post- COVID 19 (Webinar), April 30, 2020. Aajeevika Bureau http://bit.ly/unlockingtheurbanpanel
COVID19 Pandemic Voices from Margins Webinar Series (Webinars), various dates. Praxis: Institute for Participatory Practices http://www.praxisindia.org/covid19.php
Covid-19: The road back home, April 29, 2020. Arthik Anusandhan Kendra, Praxis-Institute for Participatory Practices https://www.indiawaterportal.org/articles/covid-19-road-back-home
The Jean Dreze Interview: Keeping migrant workers from returning home will deepen COVID-19 financial crisis, April 29, 2020. Jean Drèze and GS Vasu https://www.newindianexpress.com/nation/2020/apr/28/the-jean-dreze-interview-keeping-migrant-workers-from-returning-home-will-deepen-covid-19-financial–2136066.html
COVID-19 and women agricultural labourers: Field realities from Tamil Nadu, April 29, 2020. Pratheepa and Rengalakshmi https://tigr2ess.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/news/covid-19-and-women-agricultural-labourers-field-realities-tamil-nadu
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Addressing the Food Crisis in India (Podcast), April 2020. Centre for Policy Research https://www.cprindia.org/news/coronavirus-pandemic-addressing-food-crisis-india
Agricultural Supply Chains during the COVID-19 Lockdown, April 2020. Vikas Rawal and Ankur Verma https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/04/22/agricultural-supply-chains-during-the-covid-19-lockdown/
Farmers and Workers amidst the Pandemic (Web Lecture), April 20, 2020. R. Ramakumar for Progressive Students’ Forum-TISS https://www.facebook.com/PSFTISS/videos/232764391303696/
Bitter Harvest: Farmers suffer under the coronavirus lockdown, April 17, 2020. Ramandeep Singh Mann https://caravanmagazine.in/agriculture/farmers-suffer-under-the-coronavirus-lockdown
When the Invisible Disappeared: Migrant Labour in Agriculture in the Pandemic, April 14, 2020. R. Ramakumar http://fas.org.in/blog/when-the-invisible-disappeared-migrant-labour-in-agriculture-in-the-pandemic/
The Covid-19 Crisis in India. Chronicle of a Tragedy Foretold, April 13, 2020. Mathieu Ferry, Govindan Venkatasubramanian, Isabelle Guérin & Marine Al Dahdah https://booksandideas.net/The-Covid-19-Crisis-in-India.html
India’s Food System in the Time of COVID-19, April 11, 2020. Abhishek, Vaibhav Bhamoriya, Puneet Gupta, Manu Kaushik, Avinash Kishore, Ritesh Kumar, Abhishek Sharma and Shilp Verma https://www.epw.in/journal/2020/15/commentary/indias-food-system-time-covid-19.html
Broken supply chains: COVID-19 lockdown is having a devastating effect on livelihoods in rural India, April 05, 2020. Ravi Nandi and S. Nedumaran https://tigr2ess.globalfood.cam.ac.uk/news/broken-supply-chains-covid-19-lockdown-having-devastating-effect-livelihoods-rural-india
Borders of an Epidemic: COVID 19 and Migrant Workers (e-book), April 2020. Ranabir Samaddar (Ed). http://www.mcrg.ac.in/RLS_Migration_2020/COVID-19.pdf
India’s Villages during the COVID-19 Pandemic. A webpage of reports compiled by Vikas Rawal, Manish Kumar and Jesim Pais; the Society for Social and Economic Research (SSER) https://coronapolicyimpact.org/2020/04/07/indias-villages-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
The Covid-19 Pandemic and Indian Agriculture: A Note, March 30 2020 . R. Ramakumar http://fas.org.in/blog/covid19-and-indian-agriculture/
India’s coronavirus lockdown will hit women and migrant workers hardest, March 26, 2020. Nitya Rao https://theconversation.com/indias-coronavirus-lockdown-will-hit-women-and-migrant-workers-hardest-134689
Farming and its Crisis: The troubled world of agriculture, various dates. People’s Archive of Rural India https://ruralindiaonline.org/stories/categories/farming-and-its-crisis/
Indonesia
Indonesia, COVID and Deglobalisation of Food Systems, July 15, 2020. Indra Lubis https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GQusFLivVg
Indonesia’s agro nationalism in the pandemic, June 04, 2020. Colum Graham https://www.newmandala.org/indonesias-agro-nationalism-in-the-pandemic/
Indigenous communities, land rights and Covid-19, June 04, 2020. Andre Barahamin https://theecologist.org/2020/jun/04/indigenous-communities-land-rights-and-covid-19
Italy
Missing farm workers in pandemic times: Is it really “the virus’s fault”? The view from Italy, May 15, 2020. Irene Peano http://www.criticatac.ro/lefteast/missing-farm-workers-in-pandemic-times-is-it-really-the-virus-fault-the-view-from-italy%ef%bb%bf/
Italy’s coronavirus farmworker shortage fuels debate on illegal migration, April 13, 2020. Hannah Roberts https://www.politico.eu/article/italy-seasonal-migrant-farm-workers-coronavirus-covid-19/
As Italy buckles under the coronavirus pandemic, small food producers try to carry on, April 03, 2020. Giulia Simula https://pastres.org/2020/04/03/as-italy-buckles-under-the-coronavirus-pandemic-small-food-producers-try-to-carry-on/
Jordan
Herding in a confined spring: Pastoralists in Jordan during the COVID-19 pandemic, May 15, 2020. Mathilde Gingembre and Anas Amarneh https://pastres.org/2020/05/15/herding-in-confined-spring-pastoralists-in-jordan-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
Kenya
How are Kenyan pastoralists coping in the time of COVID-19?, July 03, 2020. Rahma Hassan https://pastres.org/2020/07/03/how-are-kenyan-pastoralists-coping-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
Why COVID-19 is another blow for Kenya’s food security, April 20, 2020.
Latin America (General)
Observatorio COVID-19 en América Latina y el Caribe: Impacto económico y social. United Nations-CEPAL https://www.cepal.org/es/temas/covid-19
Health and the economy: a convergence needed to address COVID-19 and retake the path of sustainable development in Latin America and the Caribbean, July 30, 2020. ECLAC-PAHO https://repositorio.cepal.org/bitstream/handle/11362/45841/4/S2000461_en.pdf
Preventing the COVID-19 crisis from becoming a food crisis: Urgent measures against hunger in Latin America and the Caribbean, June 2020. CEPAL, ECLAC https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/45726-preventing-covid-19-crisis-becoming-food-crisis-urgent-measures-against-hunger
COVID-19 hace visibles economías campesinas, May 15, 2020. https://www.landportal.info/es/blog-post/2020/05/covid-19-hace-visibles-econom%C3%ADas-campesinas
Nuevo informe de la FAO advierte del impacto del COVID-19 en la seguridad alimentaria de América Latina y el Caribe, April 27, 2020. FAO Regional Office for Latin America and the Caribbean http://www.fao.org/americas/noticias/ver/en/c/1272991/
Madagascar
Facing COVID-19 in the highlands of Madagascar: How are the rural households and women coping?, July 03, 2020. AfricaRice https://www.cgiar.org/news-events/news/facing-covid-19-in-the-highlands-of-madagascar-how-are-the-rural-households-and-women-coping/
Mexico
Resisting in the mountains in Mexico: using territory and self-determination to resist COVID-19, May 05, 2020.
Mozambique
The four immediate impacts of Covid-19 regulations on the Mozambican farmers, April 17, 2020. Phillan Zamchiya, Clemente Ntauazi and Boaventura Monjane https://www.plaas.org.za/the-four-immediate-impacts-of-covid-19-regulations-on-the-mozambican-farmers/
Nepal
COVID-19 impacts on agriculture and food systems in Nepal: Implications for SDGs, January 2021. Jagannath Adhikari, Jagadish Timsina, Sarba Raj Khadka, Yamuna Ghale, Hemant Ojha https://doi.org/10.1016/j.agsy.2020.102990
Netherlands
The impact of corona on the Dutch agricultural sectors, December 14, 2020. Petra Berkhout https://www.wur.nl/en/Research-Results/Research-Institutes/Economic-Research/show-wecr/The-impact-of-corona-on-the-Dutch-agricultural-sectors.htm
Where Have 140 Million Dutch Tulips Gone? Crushed by the Coronavirus, April 12, 2020. Nina Siegal https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/12/world/europe/netherlands-tulips-coronavirus.html
Pakistan
Is Pakistan headed for a hunger pandemic?, February 22, 2021. Mehreen Naushaad https://www.geo.tv/latest/336301-is-pakistan-headed-for-a-hunger-pandemic
COVID-19 Impact on Farm Households in Punjab, Pakistan: Analysis of Data from a Cross-Sectional Survey, August 2020. ADB Briefs https://www.adb.org/sites/default/files/publication/624751/covid-19-farm-households-punjab-pakistan.pdf
Pakistan trout farms at risk of financial ruin after pandemic, August 04, 2020. Adeel Saeed https://www.thethirdpole.net/2020/08/04/pakistan-trout-farms-at-risk-of-financial-ruin-after-pandemic/
Roots of Food Crisis in Pakistan, May 14, 2020. Hashim Bin Rashid and Mohsin Abdali https://pakleftreview.com/2020/05/14/the-roots-of-the-food-crisis-in-pakistan-covid-lockdown-the-failing-food-system-and-a-path-to-food-sovereignty/
Restraining COVID-19 impact on agriculture in Pakistan, May 03, 2020. Ghulam Abbas Shah https://pakobserver.net/restraining-covid-19-impact-on-agriculture-in-pakistan/
How will COVID-19 affect Pakistan farmers, food system?, May 01, 2020. Sana Jamal https://gulfnews.com/world/asia/pakistan/how-will-covid-19-affect-pakistan-farmers-food-system-1.71196910
Palestine
National agrifood systemsand COVID–19in PalestineEffects, policy responses, and long–term implications, October 2020. FAO http://www.fao.org/3/cb1340en/CB1340EN.pdf
Agriculture in Gaza: impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on a sector already suffering from Israeli occupation, September 22, 2020. Palestinian Hydrology Group and Real World Radio https://rwr.fm/interviews/agriculture-in-gaza-impacts-of-the-covid-19-pandemic-on-a-sector-already-suffering-from-israeli-occupation/
Seeds of resistance: Palestinian farmers fight against annexation and pandemic, July 17, 2020. Salena Fay Tramel https://issblog.nl/2020/07/17/seeds-of-resistance-palestinian-farmers-fight-against-annexation-and-pandemic/
Peru
Pobres y Perú rural, los más golpeados por la crisis, June 06, 2020. David Pereda https://larepublica.pe/sociedad/2020/06/06/coronavirus-en-peru-cuarentena-pobres-y-peru-rural-los-mas-golpeados-por-la-crisis-covid-19/
Agro y coronavirus: Las medidas del gobierno para el mundo rural en tiempos de pandemia, May 2020. La revista agraria https://larevistagraria.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/lra-189-web-compressed.pdf
Agro y coronavirus, May 05, 2020. Fernando Eguren https://landportal.org/es/blog-post/2020/04/agro-y-coronavirus
Philippines
The struggle for land and food in the locked-down Philippines, June 03, 2020. Elena L. Pasquini http://www.degreesoflatitude.com/slider/in-the-locked-down-philippines-land-agroecology-and-the-struggle-for-life/
Tanzania
Food traders’ perspectives on the COVID-19 disruption in Tanzania, March 12, 2021. Luitfred Kissoly https://www.plaas.org.za/food-traders-perspectives-on-the-covid-19-disruption-in-tanzania/
South Africa
Fattening the curve–The bio-politics of food, livelihoods and Covid-19 (Webinar), July 02, 2020. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk8qtr1MqEM
Job creation and land reform in a post-covid SA, June 03, 2020. PLAAS https://www.plaas.org.za/job-creation-and-land-reform-in-a-post-covid-sa/
Democratising South Africa’s food system in and beyond the crisis (Webinar), May 21, 2020. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DjDw5PsBso
Covid-19’s effect on South African farm workers (Webinar), May 07, 2020. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQYZfwyiY_k
Covid-19: Impact on small-scale fisheries in South Africa and beyond (Webinar), April 30, 2020. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyK_pMPcl8A
Covid-19: What’s happening in our informal economy? (Webinar), April 21, 2020. PLAAS https://www.plaas.org.za/plaas-webinar-covid-19-whats-happening-in-our-informal-economy/
Covid-19: A perspective from rural South Africa (Webinar), April 16, 2020. PLAAS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqUtUq800Uw
Covid-19: The impact on small-scale fishers—A perspective from Ocean View, April 07, 2020. Charles America, Joseph Ginindza and Moenieba Isaacs https://www.plaas.org.za/covid-19-the-impact-on-small-scale-fishers-a-perspective-from-ocean-view/
Food in the time of the coronavirus: Why we should be very, very afraid, April 1, 2020. PLAAS https://www.plaas.org.za/food-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus-why-we-should-be-very-very-afraid/
South Asia (General)
COVID-19 and South Asia: Journeying with Migrant Labour (Web Seminar), May 27, 2020. Warwick Interdisciplinary Research Centre for International Development https://bit.ly/3gET6Nl
United Kingdom
Pandemics, food (in)security, and leaving the EU: What does the Covid-19 pandemic tell us about food insecurity and Brexit, 2021. Ronald Ranta and Hilda Mulrooney https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssaho.2021.100125
Farms count cost of homegrown workforce, Judith Evans. June 14, 2020 https://www.ft.com/content/860d8651-455b-4012-8f60-8b1ba7afca32
Food Inequality, Covid-19 and the Community Restaurant, May 23, 2020. Benjamin Selwyn https://socialistproject.ca/2020/05/food-inequality-covid19-community-restaurant/#more
COVID-19 is a reminder of how deeply the UK’s food security is dependent on the EU, May 21, 2020. Tony Heron https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/brexit/2020/05/21/covid-19-is-a-stark-reminder-of-how-deeply-the-uks-food-security-is-dependent-on-the-eu/
United States of America
Impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on rural America, January 2021.
Meatpacking Plant Closures Create Continued Economic Hardships for Hog Farmers, 2020. https://foodtank.com/news/2020/07/meatpacking-plant-closures-create-continued-economic-hardships-for-hog-farmers/
The Food Supply Chain Is Not Yet in Danger — but the Workers Who Keep Us Fed Are, April 24, 2020. Murtaza Hussain https://theintercept.com/2020/04/24/coronavirus-food-supply-chain/
COVID-19 sweeping through US immigrant farmworker and meatpacker ranks, April 23, 2020. Danica Jorden https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/covid-19-sweeping-through-us-immigrant-farmworker-and-meatpacker-ranks/
‘If one of us gets sick, we all get sick’: the food workers on the coronavirus front line, April 17, 2020. Mya Frazier https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/17/chicken-factory-tyson-arkansas-food-workers-coronavirus
How coronavirus threatens the seasonal farmworkers at the heart of the American food supply, April 03, 2020. Michael Haedicke https://theconversation.com/how-coronavirus-threatens-the-seasonal-farmworkers-at-the-heart-of-the-american-food-supply-135252
Coronavirus Hits Already Frail U.S. Farm Economy, March 21, 2020. Jacob Bunge, Kirk Maltais and Jesse Newman https://www.wsj.com/articles/coronavirus-hits-already-frail-u-s-farm-economy-11584783001
Zimbabwe
COVID-19 and the Peasantry: Some Reflections from Zimbabwe, April 15, 2020. Edmore Mwandiringana and Fadzai Chipato https://peasantscorners.org/2020/04/15/covid-19-and-the-peasantry-some-reflections-from-zimbabwe/
Zimbabwe’s Covid-19 lockdown: Ensuring the right to food for the poor, April 14, 2020. Phillan Zamchiya, Dewa Mavhinga, Thando Gwinji, Arnold Chamunogwa and Claris Madhuku https://www.plaas.org.za/zimbabwes-covid-19-lockdown-ensuring-the-right-to-food-for-the-poor/
Some resources on wider political economy issues:
Hidden Abodes in Plain Sight: the Social Reproduction of Households and Labor in the COVID-19 Pandemic, March 2021.
COVID-19 and crises of capitalism: intensifying inequalities and global responses, March 2021. Sara Stevano, Tobias Franz,
Essential for what? A global social reproduction view on the re-organisation of work during the COVID-19 pandemic, November 2020. Sara Stevano, Rosimina Ali and Merle Jamieson https://doi.org/10.1080/02255189.2020.1834362
Covid-19 and The Myth of Convergence: The West, the Rest and the urgent need for fiscal space in the Remainder, November 05, 2020. Pritish Behuria https://developingeconomics.org/2020/11/05/covid-19-and-the-myth-of-convergence-the-west-the-rest-and-the-urgent-need-for-fiscal-space-in-the-remainder/
Alerta Global: Políticas, movimientos sociales y futuros en disputa en tiempos de pandemia, 2020. Breno Bringel and Geoffrey Pleyers (editors) http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/clacso/se/20200826014541/Alerta-global.pdf
Global capitalism post-pandemic, August 2020. William I. Robinson https://doi.org/10.1177/0306396820951999
The Pandemic is a battlefield. Social movements in the COVID-19 lockdown, August 06, 2020. Geoffrey Pleyers https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17448689.2020.1794398
Covid-19 and feminism in the Global South: Challenges, initiatives and dilemmas, July 15, 2020. Nadje Al-Ali https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/1350506820943617?journalCode=ejwa
Opus Magnum: How the Pandemic is Changing the World, July 06, 2020. Göran Therborn https://thesiseleven.com/2020/07/06/opus-magnum-how-the-pandemic-is-changing-the-world/
Covid-19 crisis: normality was the problem, June 15, 2020. Ilan Bizberg https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/democraciaabierta/crisis-covid-19-la-normalidad-era-el-problema-en/
Capitalist Catastrophism, June 17, 2020. Kai Heron https://roarmag.org/magazine/capitalist-catastrophism/
The COVID-19 crisis and the concept of class, June 2020. Arjun Sengupta https://doingsociology2020.blogspot.com/2020/06/the-covid-19-crisis-and-concept-of-class.html
Bottlenecks, Choke Points, and Supply Chains (Webinar), May 23, 2020. Red May TV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RWuitn4GpD4
La vida después dela covid-19, June-July 2020. http://revistas.ibero.mx/ibero/
The End of Emerging Markets?, May 03, 2020. James Crabtree https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/05/03/emerging-markets-coronavirus-pandemic-economic-fallout/
COVID-19 and Circuits of Capital, May 01, 2020.
COVID-19 en América Latina: El futuro es hoy, April 30, 2020. Rodrigo Yáñez, RIMISP https://webnueva.rimisp.org/noticia/covid-19-en-america-latina-el-futuro-es-hoy/
Measuring the impact of COVID-19 with a view to reactivation, April 2020. Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean https://www.cepal.org/en/publications/45477-measuring-impact-covid-19-view-reactivation
A crisis like no other: social reproduction and the regeneration of capitalist life during the COVID-19 pandemic, April 20, 2020. Alessandra Mezzadri https://developingeconomics.org/2020/04/20/a-crisis-like-no-other-social-reproduction-and-the-regeneration-of-capitalist-life-during-the-covid-19-pandemic/
The Pandemic and the Global Economy, April 20, 2020. Jayati Ghosh https://www.dissentmagazine.org/online_articles/the-pandemic-and-the-global-economy
Covid-19 and economic development in Latin America, April 16, 2020. Tobias Franz https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/latamcaribbean/2020/04/16/covid-19-and-economic-development-in-latin-america/
Latin America’s left spots comeback opportunity in coronavirus fallout, April 15, 2020. Michael Stott and Jude Webber https://www.ft.com/content/9559b05e-ed82-40af-9870-5a296d37704e
Could Pandemic Lead to Famine?, April 15, 2020. Martin Ravallion https://www.project-syndicate.org/commentary/covid19-lockdowns-threaten-famine-in-poor-countries-by-martin-ravallion-2020-04?referral=f10b8c
Rethinking Social Reproduction in the Time of Covid-19, April 15, 2020. Kavita Dattani https://antipodeonline.org/2020/04/15/rethinking-social-reproduction-in-the-time-of-covid-19/
How “Just-in-Time” Capitalism Spread COVID-19: Trade Routes, Transmission and International Solidarity, April 08, 2020. Kim Moody https://spectrejournal.com/how-just-in-time-capitalism-spread-covid-19/#sdendnote1anc
Out of the Ruins and Rubble: Covid-19 and the fightback in Africa, April 07, 2020. Heike Becker, Femi Aborisade and Issa Shivji https://roape.net/2020/04/07/out-of-the-ruins-and-rubble-covid-19-and-the-fightback-in-africa/
Covid-19 and the Developmental State, April 07, 2020. James Copestake and Fariba Alamgir http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/cds/2020/04/07/covid-19-and-the-developmental-state/
Pulverized: Capitalism, Africa and Covid-19, March 31, 2020. Leo Zeilig and Hannah Cross https://roape.net/2020/03/31/pulverized-capitalism-africa-and-the-covid-19-crisis/
This is a Global Pandemic – Let’s Treat it as Such, March 27, 2020. Adam Hanieh https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/4623-this-is-a-global-pandemic-let-s-treat-it-as-such
