Dr Tracy Ledger’s work on food security provided insights towards this revelatory article by PLAAS on the state of access to food in the time of the Corona virus.
“Around the world, images of empty supermarket shelves have galvanised panic that soon there may simply not be enough food available because COVID-19 lockdowns have disrupted commercial supply chains. This is not the primary danger in South Africa. The spectre we face is full supermarket shelves and people outside unable to access them.”