Chile is in the WHO’s stage 4 of the pandemic, meaning the transmission of the virus among the community has become uncontrolled and widespread (WHO, 2009). Santiago’s metropolitan area, where nearly half of the Chilean population reside, was the seed of the infection in the country, as the middle and upper class returned from Europe…
In Iraq, including the Kurdistan region of Iraq (KRI), the current official number of people infected is 2,818 with 110 people dead. A curfew had been imposed that left no freedom to circulate other than for health workers and security forces. This is lifted to a curfew from 6 pm to 6 am with some…
by Natalia Perez On March 18th, the Canadian Federal Government introduced a travel ban that prevented all non-permanent residents from entering into the Canadian territory as part of a series of measures aimed at containing COVID-19. Agricultural sector associations and food producers starred one of the earliest and strongest responses to the travel restrictions by…
by Deniz Pelek Turkey announced its first confirmed case of COVID-19 on 11 March 2020, relatively later than many other countries. Several precautions were taken gradually for preventing the spread of the virus. Schools and universities were closed and distance education started; a travel ban was imposed to most countries where the number of COVID-19…
It is probably a good time for an agriculture-based economy like Vietnam to rethink informal cross-border trade and the export of raw agricultural products. In the case of Vietnam, producing more and exporting cheap raw products only for China – although it’s an expanding market – yet tends to be less reliable and sustainable.