Immediate impact of COVID-19 pandemic on farming systems in Central America and Mexico.

ABSTRACT:

Context

The COVID-19 pandemic has affected all sectors and human activities around the World.

Objective

In this article we present a first attempt to understand the immediate impact of COVID-19 and the sanitary measures taken by governments on farming systems in Central America and Mexico (CAM).

Methods

Through a review of information generated in these initial months of the COVID-19 pandemic (webinars, blogs, electronic publications, media) and 44 interviews with key informants across the region, we have identified the main impacts felt by different types of farming systems in the region.

Results and conclusions

From corporate agricultural production systems, to small and medium scale entrepreneurs and smallholder subsistence farm households, all types of farm

SUBMITTER: Lopez-Ridaura S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9759656 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature