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Coffee to get more expensive, hard to find as COVID-19 decimates production in Colombia

April 24, 2020 Sergio Held

With COVID-19 lockdowns in place, Colombia may not have enough workers to pick coffee crops and other fruits.

COVID-19

In Argentina’s chronic economic crisis, COVID-19 may simply speed up the inevitable

April 21, 2020 Anticentric

Argentina was already on the brink of economic catastrophe before COVID-19. Things have only gotten worse.

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COVID-19: Facing challenges on many fronts, Colombia taps the military to enforce quarantines

April 3, 2020 Sergio Held

Cases of COVID-19 have snowballed in Colombia, from a single patient that brought the virus from Italy in March 6 to 1,065 cases and 17 deaths by April 1. Colombia has imposed a shelter-in-place order.  Still, many people are venturing out onto the streets, either from ignorance or necessity. Colombia

Inequality, logistics, waste leave millions hungry
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Inequality, logistics, waste leave millions hungry

February 14, 2020 Anticentric

It is unlikely the world will be able to meet its goal of eliminating hunger by 2030. Progress has been made on tackling world hunger but food insecurity started rising in 2014 (see chart here).. Hunger and undernutrition has a real impact on the global GDP. There are 7.8 billion

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