Collaboration for innovative routes to market: COVID-19 and the food system

The immediate impact of the first waves of the global COVID-19 pandemic on agricultural systems worldwide: Reflections on the COVID-19 special issue for agricultural systems

“… Prosser et al (2021) examined case studies from the Welsh agri-food system in the United Kingdom to explore the impact of the pandemic on food and drink producers and affordable food access. They emphasized the positive role of the ‘alternative food systems’ set up because of the pandemic, which worked to connect small and medium sized local producers with food processing and market access channels.…”

“…Many contributions to the Special Issue documented evidence of sources of resilience within our agricultural and agri-food systems to the pandemic. Several papers document actions contributing to agricultural system resilience capacities, such as: rapid emergence of community-based mutual aid groups ( Tittonell et al, 2021 ); COVID-19-sensitive agricultural and agri-food marketing innovations ( Prosser et al, 2021 ; Meuwissen et al, 2021 ); adaptive commodity marketing within supply chains ( Perrin and Martin, 2021 ; Snow et al, 2021 ; Marusak et al, 2021 ); problem solving following to the loss of HORECA marketing channels ( Weersink et al, 2021 ; Coopmans et al, 2021 ; Snow et al, 2021 ); and successful agri-food system policy interventions ( Zhan and Chen, 2021 ; Adhikari et al, 2021 ; Dixon et al, 2021 ). …”

“…COVID-19-sensitive agricultural and agri-food marketing innovations ( Prosser et al, 2021 ; Meuwissen et al, 2021 );…”

Potential Research of Horizontal Collaboration for Food Supply Chain

“…A food supply chain is a material, information, and financial flow from a farmer, food and drinks manufacturing, wholesaler, retailer, catering, and customer [11]. Malak [17] noted that food supply chain distribution is comprised of two components: distribution of the short supply chain and distribution of the long supply chain.…”

“…Supply chain collaboration among the stakeholder member is important to achieve the competitive advantage. Supply chain collaboration is required for supply chain members in order to reach main goal such as increase product quality, decrease total cost, decrease lead time and increase service level [9][10] [11]. In this network, the stakeholder member could take and give an information, resource allocation, decision, incentive, goals, and knowledge [12].…”