The first mini-Barefoot Guide
​In the new Agroecology Series

​Surviving COVID-19:  ​
​The Neglected Remedy
by the Natural Food Barefoot Guide ​
​Writer’s Collective

​How best can people across Africa deal with COVID-19? How can those in densely populated urban areas or in remote rural villages best survive COVID-19 if they get infected?

This mini-Barefoot Guide provides answers that lie in front of our eyes and in our fields and local markets.  You will find out in these pages what COVID-19 really is, why food is the best medicine and what foods to avoid.

You will also discover how to obtain and prepare the food to maintain its medicinal value including information on local and indigenous plants and traditional preparations filled with the best nutrients. We celebrate our healthy traditional African diets based on this marvelous gift from nature, validated and supported by modern scientific knowledge.
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​French version coming soon
​This mini-Barefoot Guide has been produced by ​The Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA), a broad-based alliance of different civil society actors that are part of the struggle for food sovereignty and agroecology in Africa.
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