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World Service,16 May 2020,49 mins

How do you feed a world in lockdown?

Business Weekly

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We’ll be looking at the pressures on the global food supply chain in this episode of Business Weekly. As many choose to buy more locally produced food we’ll ask whether new habits will stick. Two renowned economists tell us that any governments handing out virus related bailouts must learn the lessons from the financial crisis of 2008 and impose tighter conditions. ABBA’s Bjorn Ulvaeus speaks to us about life in Sweden during the pandemic and gives us his thoughts on countrywoman Greta Thunberg. Plus has the coronavirus changed the workplace as we know it forever? Lucy Burton presents (Image: Woman staring at empty supermarket shelves, Getty Images)

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