'We would rather die from Covid-19 than from hunger´ - Exploring lockdown stringencies in five African countries
| Autor: | Jakob Heni, Roseline Katusiime, Christine Bosch, Anna Seidel, Zinsou Narcisse Senon, Juliet B. Kariuki, George Graves Woode, Regina Birner, Thomas Daum, Sarah Graf, Nikola Blaschke, Denise Güttler |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Food security Ecology Public health media_common.quotation_subject COVID-19 Public policy Article Democracy Newspaper Dilemma Content analysis Political science Lockdown Africa Development economics Pandemic medicine Policy discourse Safety Risk Reliability and Quality Safety Research Food Science media_common |
| Zdroj: | Global Food Security |
| DOI: | 10.13140/rg.2.2.16865.53606 |
| Popis: | Facing COVID-19, African countries were confronted with a dilemma: enacting strict lockdowns to “flatten the curve” could potentially have large effects on food security. Given this catch-22 situation, there was widespread concern that Africa would suffer most from the pandemic. Yet, emerging evidence in early 2021 showed that COVID-19 morbidity remained low, while “biblical famines” have been avoided so far. This paper explores how five African countries maneuvered around the potentially large trade-offs between public health and food security when designing their policy responses to COVID-19 based on a content analysis of 1188 newspaper articles. The findings show that food security concerns played an important role in the public policy debate and influenced the stringency of lockdowns, especially in more democratic countries. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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