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Hello Tractor, about the pandemic’s impacts on small-scale farming and the burgeoning ‘agri-sharing’ economy in Africa.

hington University School of Business (GWSB) are proud to welcome the third cohort of IFC-Milken Institute Fellows, the Class

ks and financial hardships, with uncertain prospects of when they will be able to return home.

ers. The impacts on food security—and farming livelihoods—could be severe and long-lasting. , The confirmation of the first COVID-19 case in Kenya on March 12, 2020, set off a series of events that put the livelihoods of smallholder farmers at risk and also increased food insecurity throughout the country., During the production stage, COVID-19 restrictions cut off access to agricultural inputs and sowed confusion among farmers , One of the first ways the pandemic affected smallholders was that restrictions on movement obstructed access to important farming inputs, including seeds.