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

on with Dr. Youssef Boutros-Ghali, the former Finance Minister of the Arab Republic of Egypt:

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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.