Africa’s Food System Recovery Challenges from COVID-19 Amidst Other Key Global Challenges

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Page: 298-306

Emmanuel Ndhlovu (School of Public Management, Governance and Public Policy, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa)

The available research on COVID-19 implications and prospects for recovery often fails to rise above the impacts of the pandemic to also consider other equally problematic factors that slow down the recovery rate. One area in which research provides a narrow view is food systems. This article explores other key global challenges that stifle Africa’s food system’s quick recovery from COVID-19. Drawing from critical document analysis of secondary literature, this article found that climate change, the global energy crisis, and political factors are among the key problem factors. It concludes that these factors deserve to be prioritised because they preceded COVID-19, and therefore, their problematic role should not be subordinated to a pandemic which is already subsiding and for which vaccines have already been discovered.