Impacts of COVID-19 responses on the political economy of African food systems : political economy analysis workshop report
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2021-06-29
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Political economy research looks at how politics and economics shape one other: how power and resources are arranged among people, states and markets within an overall economic system. Where declining public investment in food and agriculture increases private sector control, governance of the food system becomes a product of power, politics and socio-economic inequality. The research examines politics of the responses being shaped by the structures of the food system in three countries (Ghana, Tanzania, South Africa) during the COVID-19 pandemic. What is the content and nature of national regulatory responses to the pandemic and how have these changed over time?
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FOOD SYSTEMS, LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS, GOVERNANCE, GOVERNMENT ROLE, REGULATION, CORRUPTION, SOCIAL SAFETY NETS, SOCIAL REPRODUCTION, POLITICAL ECONOMY, COVID-19, WOMEN’S WORK, COUNTRY STUDIES, GHANA, TANZANIA, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA