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How Rice Fights Pandemics: Nature-Crop-Human Interactions Shaped COVID-19 Outcomes
2022-12-15
Abstract excerpt
Wealthy nations led health preparedness rankings in 2019, yet many poor nations controlled COVID-19 better. We argue that a history of rice farming explains why some societies did better. We outline how traditional rice farming led to tight social norms and low-mobility social networks. These social structures helped coordinate societies against COVID-19. Study 1 compares rice- and wheat-farming prefectures within...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 616b0b19-6393-5ee5-8f4a-b1fd8ac59f20
- DOI
- 10.2139/ssrn.4169630