Debating Ideas is a new section that aims to reflect the values and editorial ethos of the African Arguments book series, publishing engaged, often radical, scholarship, original and activist writing from within the African continent and beyond. It will offer debates and engagements, contexts and controversies, and reviews and responses flowing from the African Arguments books.
The Covid-19 pandemic has transformed or intensified 'remote' forms of working. Like for much of the world's population, the mobility of aid workers has become restricted and so have the possibilities of distributing material or in-kind aid. At the same time, humanitarian crises and the need for aid will increase; including not only for health care, but also ongoing and new needs for food and economic assistance. Covid-19, as well as measures to control it, will affect access to food, work, markets as well as the production and supply of food. Restricted mobility, closure of borders, and loss of labour due to illness or death will all impact on livelihoods, food security and nutrition.
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