Bartering of agricultural produce becomes valuable in rural areas during a pandemic

Small-scale farmers, farm workers and dwellers and even micro-food producers in the township
backyard gardens play an important role not only in terms of combatting household food insecurity,
but also in terms of making fresh, nutritious and organic produce accessible in their respective
communities. The value of producing own fresh produce in the time of a pandemic is highlighted in
our story on food coping mechanisms of small-scale farmers and micro-food producers, in the time
of Covid-19. Here the focus is on bartering as an alternative strategy to exchange and acquire food
commodities.

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