Episode 10: Hunger and Covid-19 | Brazil’s Bolsonaro virus

There are almost a billion hungry people in the world. We look at how the Covid-19 pandemic is going to make this situation far worse. Also, Brazil is a scary case study of what happens when a president doesn’t take the coronavirus seriously.

1 May 2020
12 November 2014: Author Raj Patel at The New York Times Food for Tomorrow conference at the Stone Barns Center in Pocantico Hills, New York, in the United States. (Photograph by Neilson Barnard/ Getty Images for New York Times)

There are almost a billion hungry people in the world. We look at how the Covid-19 pandemic is going to make this situation far worse. Also, Brazil is a scary case study of what happens when a president doesn’t take the coronavirus seriously.

Hosted by: Njabulo Ngidi
Guests: Raj Patel, Ana Chã
Song: Stimela by Hugh Masekela
Production: The Good People at Between Productions
Editor: Charles Leonard

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