Roots of chicha download6/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Paradoxically, it’s proving harder to persuade the local hotel sector – the country draws much of its revenue from tourism – to source its fish domestically. Closer to our times, Cabo Verde’s seafood sector acts as a social safety net and export earner. They were queuing for food aid when a wall collapsed on top of them. On that February day, thousands of Cabo Verdeans had gathered at the welfare office in the capital, Praia. Collective memory is still scarred by the pre-independence Desastre da Assistência, or Welfare Disaster, which struck as famine loomed in 1949. Just over half a million people live on nine scattered islands a drought or a pandemic such as COVID-19 can quickly tip households into poverty and threaten access to food. In one generation, Cabo Verde has leapt from least developed to middle-income country status.
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