Leveraging on agri-food sector for post-COVID revival of Lankan economy (Sunday Times) 

Sunday Times (Sri Lanka) published an op-ed by Jeevika Weerahewa and Senior Research Fellow Devesh Roy on the complexity of what the impact on Sri Lanka’s economy might be during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.  The authors suggest a number of ways to prepare and alleviate some of the hardships. “Imports might be constrained for some time; Sri Lanka should use the crisis-driven opportunity to mitigate the constraints on domestic availability wherever applicable—ensuring raw materials (seeds, fertilizers, pesticides, packaging materials, etc.).” Republished in FT (Sri Lanka), The Sunday Morning (Sri Lanka)