by Dudi Fatimer The pandemic has had a great host of economic repercussions, which have led to the blossoming of a number of online barter groups on social media. https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/learning-to-barter-in-the-covid-19-financial-crisis-653112 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

by Adam Taylor https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2020/12/18/coronavirus-pacific-islands-pandemic-economies/ "Some Pacific island nations are leaning into their isolation as the pandemic rages, looking to family farming and even cash-free bartering systems to survive the downturn." #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

by Adi Dovrat-Meseritz More Israelis are swapping goods and services through Facebook groups or under the counter and their resentment of the government is part of their motivation https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/business/.premium-hard-coronavirus-times-in-israel-spur-a-rise-in-bartering-and-the-black-market-1.9306848 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Neil Jerome Morales https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-philippines-barter-tr-idUSKBN26N09L #HaveNeed #Barter #BarterApp #Trade #Swap #Community #SocialImpact

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/business-54005481 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Jessica Jones Amid economic uncertainty – and a desire to connect as we distance – bartering is experiencing an unprecedented rise. Could it stick around? https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20200821-the-rise-of-bartering-in-a-changed-world #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By David Harrison Causes include higher food prices, school closings; expiration of federal jobless benefits deepens distress https://www.wsj.com/articles/more-americans-go-hungry-amid-coronavirus-pandemic-census-shows-11597570200 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By A.C. Shilton https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/smarter-living/coronavirus-how-to-trade-barter.html #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Michelle R. Davis https://www.aarp.org/home-family/friends-family/info-2020/bartering-goods-coronavirus.html #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

https://www.unaids.org/en/resources/presscentre/featurestories/2020/july/20200717_bartering_fiji #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Brittany Lyte https://www.civilbeat.org/2020/07/the-pandemic-is-transforming-how-people-in-hawaii-get-their-food/ #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

Reporting by Dala Osseiran and Alaa Kanaan, editing by Ed Osmond https://www.reuters.com/article/us-lebanon-crisis-bartering/as-lebanon-crisis-spirals-families-barter-for-food-on-facebook-idUSKBN2481T5 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

https://www.trtworld.com/video/bigger-than-five/nigeria-trade-community-uses-barter-system-to-pay-for-food/5d1c5c5bb9fa6764a9a56d64 #barter #trade #community #coronavirus #COVID #haveneed

By Steve Pratt Steve Miller, Steffi Graf and Josh Kline Los Angeles resident Josh Kline saw an opportunity to help those in need, and he decided to do something about it. Kline, an active member at the Mulholland Tennis Club, launched a website and app called have|need. Put simply in a recent note to his current investors and partners, Kline stated: “We all have things we don’t need and need things we don’t have. While millions of people have smartphones and internet access,