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Title Assessing impacts of COVID-19 and their responses among smallholder farmers in Brazil, Madagascar and Tanzania
Full text http://edoc.hu-berlin.de/18452/27507; http://dx.doi.org/10.18452/26816
Date 2022
Author(s) Löhr, Katharina; Mugabe, Paschal; Turetta, Ana; Steinke, Jonathan; Lozano, Camilo; Bonatti, Michelle; Eufemia, Luca; Ito, Larissa Hery; Konzack, Alexandra; Kroll, Stefan; Mgeni, Charles Peter; Andrasana, Dina Ramanank'; Tadesse, Sophia; Yazdanpanah, Masoud; Sieber, Stefan
Abstract This publication is with permission of the rights owner (Sage) freely accessible. - This study investigates the impacts of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic on smallholder farmers and their coping strategies in three contrasting Low- and Middle-Income Countries. The case studies include Brazil (South region), Madagascar (Atsimo Atsinanana region), and Tanzania (Morogoro/Eastern Tanzania). These countries were chosen because i) the economies are strongly influenced by the agricultural sector; ii) their national food security is strongly affected by smallholder production, and, iii) they represent a set of contrasting government responses to COVID-19 including the denial of the pandemic. Data were collected through semi-structured household interviews in all three countries in rural areas. COVID-19 induced effects were found in all three countries, including in Brazil and Tanzania where both national governments initially neglected the existence of COVID-19 and introduced few containment measures only. Here, mobility and trade restrictions of other countries impact also on agricultural trade and production in countries in which governments took less action to COVID-19 and also people remained home and practiced social distancing even if no official government policy was issued. The findings in all three countries suggest that the COVID-19 crisis had negatively affected smallholders' agricultural production, leading to a vicious cycle of low production, low incomes, and higher food insecurity. Results of this study raise the thorny issue of how best to balance containment of pandemic and future shocks against the well-being of the vulnerable rural population in lower- and middle-income countries; especially considering also the degree of global interconnected and the potential of polices to effect people beyond the national scale. - German Leibniz Research Alliance 'Crises in a Globalized World' - Peer Reviewed
Subject(s) COVID-19; coping strategies; preventive measures; agriculture; smallholders; government policies; 630 Landwirtschaft und verwandte Bereiche; ddc:630
Language eng
Publisher Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Type of publication article; doc-type:article; publishedVersion
Format application/pdf
Rights http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Identifier 0030-7270; urn:nbn:de:kobv:11-110-18452/27507-8; 10.1177/00307270221127717; 2043-6866
Repository Berlin - Humboldt University of Berlin
Added to C-A: 2023-06-28;10:22:14