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#Examine narratives to end policy deadlock, boost agricultural development in Africa, economists say

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“#Examine narratives to end policy deadlock, boost agricultural development in Africa, economists say” Economists argue that a dichotomy between either state-led or market-led approaches to boost food production leads to political deadlock that hinders alternative solutions. Credit: CIAT/G.Smith The COVID-19 pandemic presents an opportunity to transform food systems and achieve sustainable development. But the lively…

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#Policy options for resilience-enhancing farm demographics

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“#Policy options for resilience-enhancing farm demographics” Credit: SURE-Farm European agriculture as well as the wider economy face substantial demographic changes in the upcoming decades. The baby boomer generation will retire within the next 10 to 15 years and the cohorts of the young generations, which will enter the labor market in the next decades, are…

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#Rethinking the boundaries between economic life and coronavirus death

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“#Rethinking the boundaries between economic life and coronavirus death” by Carolyn Prouse, Beverley Mullings, Dairon Luis Morejon Perez, Shannon Clarke, The Conversation </p><div> <div> <div data-src=”https://scx2.b-cdn.net/gfx/news/hires/2020/capitalism.jpg” data-sub-html=”Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain” data-thumb=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/tmb/2020/capitalism.jpg”> <figure><img alt=”capitalism” height=”480″ src=”https://scx1.b-cdn.net/csz/news/800/2020/capitalism.jpg” title=”Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain” width=”800″></img><figcaption> Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain </figcaption></figure></div> As governments around the world begin to reopen their borders,…

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#COVID-19 leaving some Americans sick and hungry

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“#COVID-19 leaving some Americans sick and hungry” The COVID-19 pandemic is not just making Americans sick, it’s leaving many hungry as well, and experts who gathered for a Harvard Chan School forum on the problem said that legislation to relieve the pandemic’s economic burden may be able to help. Sara Bleich, professor of public health…

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#Coronavirus: It is morally indefensible for a nation to keep life-saving drugs for itself

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“#Coronavirus: It is morally indefensible for a nation to keep life-saving drugs for itself” The world eagerly awaits new vaccines and drugs to combat COVID-19. To deal with a global pandemic, the production of new treatments needs to be scaled up towards supplying the whole world—and as quickly as possible. Borderless open and collaborative science…

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#Number of Australians facing housing stress doubles

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“#Number of Australians facing housing stress doubles” Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain The number of Australians who couldn’t pay their rent or mortgage on time has more than doubled due to COVID-19, new data from The Australian National University (ANU) shows. The survey of more than 3,200 people shows the proportion of Australians not being able…

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#Racial wealth gap drives disparate responses to income shocks

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“#Racial wealth gap drives disparate responses to income shocks” Credit: Shutterstock.com How do different types of households respond to economic volatility? A recent paper by University of Chicago economists shows that income shocks—sudden but temporary reductions in income—affect Black and Hispanic households more strongly than their white counterparts, as a result of the persistent racial…

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#Politics driving personal economic decisions amid COVID-19

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“#Politics driving personal economic decisions amid COVID-19” Tony Cookson, associate professor at CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business. Credit: University of Colorado at Boulder In a normal election year, politics are often driven by economics. But as COVID-19 spurred record job losses and stock market sell-offs, Tony Cookson—an associate professor at CU Boulder’s Leeds School…

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#100 days of coronavirus has sent shock waves through the food system

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“#100 days of coronavirus has sent shock waves through the food system” Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain The COVID-19 lockdown has exposed a large number of problems in the food system. Whether it was the panic buying or workers in meat-packing plants testing positive for the virus, serious concerns have been raised about the resilience of…