Africa: What Does COVID-19 Crisis Mean for Rural Development?

22 April 2020
opinion

London — The implications and consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic are playing out before us. Much of the news coverage of the to date in both the Global North and the Global South has understandably focused on the horrifying impact of the disease on urban communities, where it is clearly hitting people, and economies, hardest.

But what are the implications for people in rural areas, where just under a half of the world's population live, and where the largest concentrations of the poorest and most food insecure people are still to be found?What conclusions should we be drawing, and how will we be thinking about research and policy in the future?

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