خلاصة:
The coronavirus (COVID-19) has already left its footprints over vast geography worldwide and the rest of the globe is also under a big threat to this ongoing pandemic. Its effect can be felt amongst every sector of the economic ecosystem, and one of the most severely affected components is the food sector. The impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains (FSCs), especially agriculture, has created grave concerns for food security globally. This paper presents a perspective on future FSCs and the predicted outcomes which are likely to occur post COVID-19 based on the plans, reviews of critical reports, and information made available to date. The food industry needs unprecedented safety, technology & policy-measures to shine again and to manage the supply chain operations. In this highly-connected world, technological innovations and improvisations will create more resilient and sustainable food supply chains. Further, key production and distribution challenges are also highlighted.
ملخص الجهاز:
The impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains (FSCs), especially agriculture, has created grave concerns for food security globally.
Keywords: food supply chain, COVID-19, pandemics, lockdown, agriculture 1.
A significantly reduced demand for food and beverage products also lead to supply chain disruption challenges.
The implications are quite complex in the fisheries & aquaculture sector, and data capture fishery's inability of fishing vessels to operate can create a domino effect in FSCs. The most affected food sector is going to be the aquaculture, poultry, and fishery products because of logistics issues and the pandemic’s impact on the livestock sector due to limited access to livestock fodder and slaughterhouses, and hence, a diminished sale of these types of products (Orner and Brown, 2020; Singh et al.
com Document type: Technical Note 295 Authorities are working effectively and providing essentials to needy and major victims of the epidemic in their homes and taking drastic measures to reduce the impact of the predicted economic recession as a result of COVID19 (Cappelli and Cini, 2020; Larue, 2020; Ivanov and Dolgui, 2020).
FSCs in many developing nations are not as automated and, thus, very reliant on labor for most of the supply chain operations, including planting, harvesting, food movement, etc.
Will the COVID-19 pandemic make us reconsider the relevance of short food supply chains and local productions?
Q&A: COVID-19 pandemic – impact on food and agriculture.
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