Sink or swim? : how Covid-19 and the responses to it have affected small-scale fishers
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2021
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This policy brief reports findings from research investigating the impacts of Covid-19 regulations and mitigation measures on small-scale fishers in the Western Cape, South Africa. It provides specific and doable recommendations. Lockdown regulations have highlighted the lack of resilience among small-scale producers and traders within the complex national food system. A more localised food system should be supported and prioritised with the assistance of the state. The informal sector of small-scale food producers, processors, and traders increasingly came to depend on buyers in the formal sector: big fishing companies and supermarket chains who could also afford to buy them out.
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LOCAL FOOD SYSTEMS, FOOD SECURITY, COVID-19, REGULATION, SMALLHOLDERS, ARTISANAL FISHERIES, FISHING, POLITICAL ECONOMY, RURAL ECONOMY, INFORMAL SECTOR, FOOD PRODUCTION, SOUTH AFRICA, SOUTH OF SAHARA