Will pandemic push humans into a healthier relationship with nature?

Farmers watch a demonstration on growing local crops by Seed Savers Network-Kenya in Gilgil, Kenya, on December 2019.

Daniel Wanjama had everything ready for this year's first seed fair in the Kenyan town of Gilgil, an important event where poor farmers exchange seeds of nutritious, hardy local crops they cannot easily buy in shops or markets.

But a week before the fair Wanjama had organised for late March, the government banned gatherings in a bid to slow the spread of the novel coronavirus.