WaPo: Remote Pacific islands escaped the coronavirus this year. It devastated their economies anyway
by Adam Taylor Some Pacific island nations are leaning into their isolation as the pandemic rages, looking to family farming and even...
Adi Dovrat-Meseritz
- Nov 12, 2020
Haaretz: Hard Coronavirus Times in Israel Spur a Rise in Bartering – and the Black Market
by Adi Dovrat-Meseritz More Israelis are swapping goods and services through Facebook groups or under the counter and their resentment of...
Suzanne Bearner
- Nov 3, 2020
The Guardian: A barter way of life: Covid crisis fuels swapping of goods and skills
By Suzanne Bearner Empty shop shelves drove many people to exchange items such as toilet rolls and yeast, but some have carried on...
Inara Verzemnieks
- Oct 24, 2020
CNN: Bootstrapping Through the Pandemic
It’s been exactly four years since Shannon Benjamin planted a filing cabinet on the curb outside her house in Bay City, Michigan, and filled
Breanna de Vera
- Oct 12, 2020
HaveNeed is finalist in the dot.LA Pitch Showcase Competition
By Breanna De Vera HaveNeed is an app that empties garages, but not wallets. It's the first consumer multi-party barter platform for...
Neil Jerome Morales
- Oct 1, 2020
Reuters: Gadgets for groceries: coronavirus sparks Philippines online barter trade
By Neil Jerome Morales https://www.reuters.com/article/health-coronavirus-philippines-barter-tr-idUSKBN26N09L