by Vishwas Satgar In the political chorus of South Africa’s rainbow nation we have often heard the refrain ‘we did not know apartheid was so bad’ or ‘we did not know apartheid had such an impact on black people’. This kind of brazen denialism is a...
Communiqué by IPES-Food, April 2020 The COVID-19 health crisis has brought on an economic crisis, and is rapidly exacerbating an ongoing food security and nutrition crisis. In a matter of weeks, COVID-19 has laid bare the underlying risks, fragilities, and inequities in global food systems, and...
by Ralph Hamann As the COVID-19 crisis unfolds, the focus of business leaders and others has been on immediate responses and short-term time horizons. This is for good reason. Yet there are initial signs of how the crisis may be shaping longer-term assumptions about business and its context. The spread...
PMBEJD tracks food prices in supermarkets that target the low-income market in Pietermaritzburg. We will continue keeping an eye on these stores during the Covid-19 pandemic and will track prices more frequently. In this media statement we cover the following: Initial price spikes in the household food...
London, 23 March 2020 Lawrence Haddad, Jess Fanzo, Steve Godfrey, Corinna Hawkes, Saul Morris and Lynnette Neufeld With the spread of COVID-19 we find ourselves plunged into a global health crisis. By most accounts we are only at the early stages of the pandemic so it...