Unfreezing unspent social special-purpose funds for the Covid-19 crisis: Critical reflections from India [0.03%]
动用未使用的社会专项资金应对新冠疫情危机：来自印度的反思
Deval Desai,Shalini Randeria
Deval Desai
In India, the government launched a US$22.6 billion financial support package for the poor and marginalized as a result of Covid-19. Approximately US$ 4.2 billion (INR 310 billion) came from a vast pile of unspent social special-purpose fun...
On the susceptibility and vulnerability of agricultural value chains to COVID-19 [0.03%]
农业价值链对COVID-19的脆弱性和易损性分析
John Morton
John Morton
In the context of the major potential impacts of COVID-19 on agriculture and agricultural trade in developing countries, this Viewpoint discusses the advantages of adopting a conceptual framework previously used to discuss the impact of the...
Responding to COVID-19: Community volunteerism and coproduction in China [0.03%]
应对COVID-19：中国的社区志愿服务和共同生产
Qing Miao,Susan Schwarz,Gary Schwarz
Qing Miao
The COVID-19 pandemic created a critical need for citizen volunteers working with government to protect public health and to augment overwhelmed public services. Our research examines the crucial role of community volunteers and their effec...
Policy options for galvanizing Africa's rice sector against impacts of COVID-19 [0.03%]
政策选项以推动非洲的水稻产业应对COVID-19的影响
Arumugam Kathiresan,Tomokazu Nagai,Yusuke Haneishi
Arumugam Kathiresan
Demand for rice consumption in Africa has outstripped the current local production capacities. As a result, African markets have become heavily dependent on importation, especially from Asia. During the COVID-19 pandemic, rice production in...
What happens when the money runs out? Forest outcomes and equity concerns following Ecuador's suspension of conservation payments [0.03%]
当资金用尽时会发生什么？厄瓜多尔暂停保护付款后的森林结果和平等问题
Nicolle Etchart,José Luis Freire,Margaret B Holland et al.
Nicolle Etchart et al.
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are now a prominent policy instrument for conserving tropical forests. PES are voluntary, direct, and contractual: an ES buyer pays an ES steward for adopting conservation practices for a fixed term. A ...
COVID-19's impacts on migrant workers from Bangladesh: In search of policy intervention [0.03%]
COVID-19对孟加拉国农民工的影响：亟需政策干预
Mohammad Rezaul Karim,Mohammad Tarikul Islam,Bymokesh Talukder
Mohammad Rezaul Karim
Migrant workers play a significant role in the economy of Bangladesh, pumping approximately USD15 billion into the economy that directly contributes to the socio-economic development of Bangladesh every year. These workers and their depende...
Are responses to the pandemic inclusive? A rapid virtual audit of COVID-19 press briefings in LMICs [0.03%]
大流行的反应是否具有包容性？来自LMIC的COVID-19简报的快速虚拟审查
Jaclyn Yap,Vandana Chaudhry,Chandan Kumar Jha et al.
Jaclyn Yap et al.
Responses to the COVID-19 pandemic may leave many people behind through a variety of exclusion processes as basic information about the virus and its spread is shared with the public. We conduct a rapid virtual audit of pandemic related pre...
Beyond banning wildlife trade: COVID-19, conservation and development [0.03%]
禁止野生物贸易之外：COVID-19、保护和开发的关系
Dilys Roe,Amy Dickman,Richard Kock et al.
Dilys Roe et al.
One of the immediate responses to COVID-19 has been a call to ban wildlife trade given the suspected origin of the pandemic in a Chinese market selling and butchering wild animals. There is clearly an urgent need to tackle wildlife trade th...
Challenges to NGOs' ability to bid for funding due to the repatriation of volunteers: The case of Samoa [0.03%]
志愿者回国对非政府组织筹资能力的挑战：萨摩亚的案例
Annika Tierney,Ramona Boodoosingh
Annika Tierney
Although there are an increasing number of funding facilities accessible for non-government organisations in response to the global COVID-19 pandemic, critics suggest that it is still insufficient. Non-government organisations provide many ...
Radeef Chundakkadan,Rekha Ravindran
Radeef Chundakkadan
This study examines whether the flow of information pertaining to COVID-19 helps to contain the pandemic. We capture the information flow of the pandemic using the Google Search Volume Index for the keyword coronavirus+covid in 33 states an...