Topic: Food Security
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Valkyrie: Fresh healthy food is harder to find and very expensive
We usually prepare nsima with meat for our meals because this is our staple food. Because of COVID-19, we have failed to keep enough food in our family due to financial hardships. The food we eat is less varied because we don’t have enough money to buy balanced food and the price of food is very now.
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Storm: Rising food prices during the pandemic
The prices of many essential goods have gone up. Meat, cooking oil and sugar have gone up. This has affected my life a lot, though I have never been forced to skip meals because of it. I have just reduced my consumption of chicken and red meat and I have increased the number of alternative
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Spiderman: Being self-sufficient helped us during COVID-19
Because of the COVID-19 pandemic food prices have risen unprecedently to the disadvantage of many, for example, legumes have gone up by 30-40%. We have reduced meat (beef and liver) to match our income. Luckily, we do not buy maize as we make sure we have enough stock in our home. In most of every
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Shuri: Skipping meals to make ends meet
Food prices have risen and what we eat has changed since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, it has affected us a lot, we are no longer having 3 meals a day, we are skipping lunch and we are no longer having snacks as well. My diet is less diverse. We are only able to buy
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Okoye: Making the most out of what we have
As an unemployed person, things were hard before COVID-19 so I can’t say the pandemic affected my lifestyle. Our diet wasn’t that diverse before COVID-19 so it hasn’t changed my family’s food security, though the price of things like cooking oil keeps increasing day in and day out. We may not have a good number of types
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Luke Cage: How COVID-19 changed what I eat
Since the outbreak of the pandemic, my family and I have been unable to farm the way we normally would. This has led to low food production for me and my family. In addition to that, the price of food at the market for staple goods is high due to the reduction in the importation
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Iron Man: COVID-19 driving food prices up
COVID -19 has impacted me and my family. Before COVID -19 it was my first priority to have enough food at home but now it’s not easy to have enough food at home because things are very expensive. If you want to have enough food at home you need to struggle. Before COVID-19 I was
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Gamora: Reflecting on how COVID-19 has changed what I eat
May 1st is celebrated as International Workers’ Day in most countries around the world and it is a holiday day. This holiday is most commonly associated as a commemoration of the achievement of the Labour movement. Here in Malawi, we celebrate on this day as well. There are public speeches, special events, and trade union
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Falcon: How COVID-19 has impacted my food security
COVID-19 has impacted a lot in terms of food security as compared to HIV pandemic. COVID-19 has limited families in terms of hustles we can make to earn more in a day due to some restrictive guidelines on the ground for operationalization of day-to-day endeavours. Due to COVID-19, sometimes if you fail to comply with
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Black Panther: Food Security during the COVID-19 Pandemic
In my small village in Kasungu our health has changed, and it is not as it was before because of COVID-19. This is happening because we are not eating well-balanced food like meat and chicken because we cannot afford to have them because there are expensive. These days we only eat meat once a week,