Tuesday 5 January 2021

Collective action around common resources could help vulnerable communities

Two separate economic studies point to a grim current economic reality in South Africa. Close to 3 million jobs lost due to the COVID-19 lockdown in April were not recovered again by June 2020. Also by June, one in every two households living in shack settlements did not have enough money to buy food at the end of the month.

source https://phys.org/news/2021-01-action-common-resources-vulnerable.html