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Saturday February 13 2021
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The article written by Chris O Ojiewo in the e-newsletter, The Conversation, titled: “Higher quality seeds can help beat Africa’s hunger pandemic” opened my eyes to the fact that Covid-19 has resulted in a new category of refugees.
Thousands of jobs in towns have been lost due to the Covid-19 pandemic and people have had to migrate to rural areas where they are trying their luck by engaging in agricultural production.
Ojiewo refers to such people as farming refugees. They will probably return to the cities and to their jobs at a later time when the pandemic is brought under control or maybe they will never.