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For households that rely on remittances to put food on the table,
a drop in income can be catastrophic. National lockdowns and physi-
cal distancing measures in the absence of government sponsored
income-support programs mean that individuals have no way of
seeking alternate sources of income to make up for lost wages abroad.
Disruptions to the agri-food workforce are thus having multiple rip-
ple effects across the world, including worsening a global food crisis.
A Need for Compassion in Post-Pandemic Food Systems
In April, the International Panel of Experts on Sustainable Food
Systems on COVID-19 (IPES-Food), released a report with a series of
recommendations to respond to the current food system crisis and to
âturn the existing seeds of change into the foundation of a new food
system.â23 What should a post-pandemic food system look like? Food
system governance scholars argue that a just food system must be a
democratic one.24 It must also be a compassionate one.
Our shared humanity must be at the heart of our responses to
COVID-19 and efforts to rebuild post-pandemic food systems. Here,
we can look to the South African concept of Ubuntu for guidance.
Nobel Peace Prize Winner and Archbishop Desmond Tutu describes
Ubuntu as a philosophy of interdependence: âmy humanity is caught
up and is inextricably bound up in yours.â25 Tutu believed that
Ubuntu could be a force to facilitate reconciliation in Apartheid and
post-Apartheid South Africa. His message, that we can only survive
together, is equally instructive for food system governance. We are
theguardian.com/global-development/2020/apr/22/world-bank-warns-of-col-
lapse-in-money-sent-home-by-migrant-workers>; âHow is COVID-19 Affecting
Remittances Flows into Emerging Markets?â (30 April 2020), online: OxfordÂ
Business Group <https://oxfordbusinessgroup.com/news/how-covid-19-affecting-
remittance-flows-emerging-markets>; Karl Lester M Yap & Siegfrid Alegado,
âWorld Bank Forecasts Philippine Remittances to Drop 13% in 2020â,
Bloomberg News Wire (24 April 2020), online: <bnnbloomberg.ca/world-bank-
forecasts-philippine-remittances-to-drop-13-in-2020-1.1426277>.
23. âCOVID-19 and the Crisis in Food Systems: Symptoms, Causes, and Potential
Solutionsâ (April 2020), online (pdf): International Panel Experts on Sustainable FoodÂ
Systems <http://www.ipes-food.org/_img/upload/files/COVID-19_CommuniqueEN.
pdf>.
24. See e.g. Ludivine Petetitin, âThe COVID-19 Crisis: An Opportunity to Integrate
Food Democracy into Post Pandemic Food Systemsâ [April 2020] European J
Risk Regulation, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/err.2020.40.
25. Desmond Tutu, âForwardâ in Dana Gluckstein, ed, Dignity:Â
InÂ
HonorÂ
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of Indigenous Peoples (Brooklyn, NY: PowerHouse Books, 2010).
VULNERABLE
The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Titel
- VULNERABLE
- Untertitel
- The Law, Policy and Ethics of COVID-19
- Autoren
- Vanessa MacDonnell
- Jane Philpott
- Sophie Thériault
- Sridhar Venkatapuram
- Verlag
- Ottawa Press
- Datum
- 2020
- Sprache
- englisch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
- ISBN
- 9780776636429
- Abmessungen
- 15.2 x 22.8 cm
- Seiten
- 648
- Kategorien
- Coronavirus
- International