The Covid pandemic, cultivation and livelihoods in South Africa’s Eastern Cape

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Figure 1. Most commonly experienced effects of Covid-19.

Table 1. Responses regarding if the Covid-19 pandemic impacted opinions about cultivation grouped in emerging themes.

Emerging themes level 1	The pandemic did not impact engagement in/ perspective on cultivation (96 responses)			The pandemic impacted engagement in/ perspective on cultivation (8 responses)
Emerging themes level 2	We are not cultivating for material reasons unrelated to Covid (46 responses)	We love cultivation and this perspective has not changed because of Covid (32 responses)	Neutral or mixed answers (e.g., we love cultivation but we are materially constrained and it is not due to Covid) (18 responses)	Covid increased material constraints and made it more difficult to cultivate (7)	Covid made us think more positively about cultivation (1)
Material (M) or ideational (I) response	M	I	M + I	M	I