After the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared a novel coronavirus, ‘Covid-19’, a pandemic on the 11th of March 2020, a sprawling path of destruction soon followed. Government-imposed mandatory lockdowns restricting the movement of millions to isolate and limit cases ultimately saving the lives of many but concurrently gave rise to a severe increase in poor, unemployed and food-insecure people, exposing the vulnerabilities of global systems, disrupting global supply chains and the core sustaining pillars of modern world economies, causing the global economy to contract at a rate not seen since World War II (FAO, 2021).