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Invited Review: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for food supply chains

PURPOSE: Some of the biggest economic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic were experienced in food supply chains, particularly in the protein sector. This article examines these protein-sector supply-chain shocks, exploring the nature and causes of the market disruptions during the pandemic, eval...

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Autores principales: Anderson, John D., Mitchell, James L., Maples, Joshua G.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8617279/
http://dx.doi.org/10.15232/aas.2021-02223
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description PURPOSE: Some of the biggest economic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic were experienced in food supply chains, particularly in the protein sector. This article examines these protein-sector supply-chain shocks, exploring the nature and causes of the market disruptions during the pandemic, evaluating the effects of these shocks from an economic perspective, and discussing potential market and policy responses that could mitigate the adverse effects of similar events in the future. SOURCES: A variety of sources contemporary to the pandemic were surveyed to document pandemic effects on meat and poultry supply chains. The implications of pandemic effects for supply chain participants were explored, drawing from sources in supply chain management, network reliability, and agricultural economics literature. SYNTHESIS: Pandemic-related disruptions to meat supply chains and the economic hardship associated with those disruptions have generated tremendous interest in improving supply chain robustness and resilience. Much of that interest focuses on encouraging local and regional processing operations, creating shorter supply chains. At the same time, commercial interests will most likely aggressively pursue further automation to mitigate the effects of labor supply disruption—their major problem during the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Local and regional processing operations are receiving a significant infusion of pandemic relief funds. Consumers are currently keenly interested in local and regional food options. At the same time, commercial operations will likely become even more efficient due to postpandemic adjustments. Thus, local and regional operations may face an even more challenging competitive environment than before the pandemic.
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spelling pubmed-86172792021-11-26 Invited Review: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic for food supply chains Anderson, John D. Mitchell, James L. Maples, Joshua G. Applied Animal Science PRODUCTION AND MANAGEMENT: Invited Review PURPOSE: Some of the biggest economic disruptions from the COVID-19 pandemic were experienced in food supply chains, particularly in the protein sector. This article examines these protein-sector supply-chain shocks, exploring the nature and causes of the market disruptions during the pandemic, evaluating the effects of these shocks from an economic perspective, and discussing potential market and policy responses that could mitigate the adverse effects of similar events in the future. SOURCES: A variety of sources contemporary to the pandemic were surveyed to document pandemic effects on meat and poultry supply chains. The implications of pandemic effects for supply chain participants were explored, drawing from sources in supply chain management, network reliability, and agricultural economics literature. SYNTHESIS: Pandemic-related disruptions to meat supply chains and the economic hardship associated with those disruptions have generated tremendous interest in improving supply chain robustness and resilience. Much of that interest focuses on encouraging local and regional processing operations, creating shorter supply chains. At the same time, commercial interests will most likely aggressively pursue further automation to mitigate the effects of labor supply disruption—their major problem during the pandemic. CONCLUSIONS AND APPLICATIONS: Local and regional processing operations are receiving a significant infusion of pandemic relief funds. Consumers are currently keenly interested in local and regional food options. At the same time, commercial operations will likely become even more efficient due to postpandemic adjustments. Thus, local and regional operations may face an even more challenging competitive environment than before the pandemic. 2021-12 2021-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC8617279/ http://dx.doi.org/10.15232/aas.2021-02223 Text en © 2021 American Registry of Professional Animal Scientists Since January 2020 Elsevier has created a COVID-19 resource centre with free information in English and Mandarin on the novel coronavirus COVID-19. The COVID-19 resource centre is hosted on Elsevier Connect, the company's public news and information website. Elsevier hereby grants permission to make all its COVID-19-related research that is available on the COVID-19 resource centre - including this research content - immediately available in PubMed Central and other publicly funded repositories, such as the WHO COVID database with rights for unrestricted research re-use and analyses in any form or by any means with acknowledgement of the original source. These permissions are granted for free by Elsevier for as long as the COVID-19 resource centre remains active.
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