agribusiness
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In Paraguay, COVID-19 exposes the problems of land concentration: food imports and the limits of policies for peasant support
The government of Paraguay adopted preventive sanitary measures on March 10th, prohibiting activities that gather many people, and, later, on March 28th, adopted stronger measures for isolation. On March 13th, the government announced an increase in the value of the cash transfer programs to the vulnerable and senior population (Tekoporã and Adulto Mayor). There were…
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Lockdown affecting agribusiness and local food producers differently in Argentina. Challenges and opportunities for food sovereignty.
In the whole Argentine territory, a quarantine was declared by the recently elected Peronist government in the early stages of contagion itself, on 19 March. Unlike other Latin American countries, there was less hesitation in implementing this measure to control the spread of the virus, even at the cost of other concerns such as economic…