COVID‐19 impact on fruit and vegetable markets: One year later

Chenarides, Lauren; Richards, Timothy J.; Rickard, Bradley J.

doi:10.1111/cjag.12272

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“…Yet, growing evidence suggests that the Canadian and, broadly speaking, the North American food supply chains have shown a high resiliency and adaptation capacity in terms of food availability at large. Especially the bilateral trade between Canada and the US enabled the food systems in both countries to benefit from each other's redundancies ( Chenarides et al, 2021 ; Deaton and Deaton, 2020 ; Hobbs, 2020 ).…”

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Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada

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Soubry

Dove-McFalls

et al. 2022

Journal of Rural Studies

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The Covid-19 pandemic has demonstrated the vulnerability of food systems to disturbances. Advocates have promoted short food supply chains as more resilient and adaptable thanks to their embeddedness in local economic and ecological networks. As part of a broader case study on challenges facing farmers in local food supply chains in Québec, Canada, we asked farmers about the pandemic's impacts on food production and marketing in the province, including how food producers coped with these challenges. We sent an online questionnaire to 1046 farmers who distribute food through direct marketing in Québec, identified through consumer-facing online platforms. We conducted follow-up interviews with 15 of the 133 farmers that completed the questionnaire to gain a better understanding of their pandemic-related challenges and opportunities, as well as their adaptation needs and strategies. We identified four main types of challenges among farmers: workforce, food demand and supply, changes in sales outlets and marketing channels, and other operational and development issues. In turn, six key adaptation strategies helped farmers reorganize their marketing and sales, which we categorize as: redistribution, streamlining, replacement, collaboration, farm adjustment, and outlet adjustment. Most surveyed local farmers felt well-prepared to adapt to four major challenges that the Covid-19 pandemic forged or escalated, and our findings suggest that they demonstrated remarkable resilience to additional challenges posed by the pandemic. Our study therefore contributes important insights about how flexibility and redundancy among local farmers stabilized the local food system during the onset of a global pandemic. (244 words).

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Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada

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Soubry

Dove-McFalls

et al. 2022

Journal of Rural Studies

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“…The proportion of grain and edible oil rose to 14%, and aquatic products rose to 7% (see Figure 2 B). On the whole, the pandemic had a great impact on perishable agricultural products, such as vegetables, fruits, and livestock and poultry [ 41 , 42 ].…”

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Overstocked Agricultural Produce and Emergency Supply System in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses from China

Chen

Zhong

2021

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The spread of COVID-19 has affected not only public health but also agriculture, raising global concerns regarding the food system. As an immediate impact of COVID-19, farmers around the globe have had difficulties with sales, resulting in large amounts of overstocked agricultural products and food loss. This further threatens the livelihood of rural, poor farmers and impacts sustainable production. To provide a better understanding of the overstocking situation after the outbreak of the pandemic, this study depicts the distribution characteristics of overstocked agricultural products in China. After analyzing a nationwide data set collected from 3482 individuals/organizations by the Chinese Agri-products Marketing Association after the outbreak of the pandemic, we found that some of the initial prevention and control measures disrupted sales channels, and in turn, caused the farmers to suffer losses. The impact was more severe in perishable products and their production areas, as well as in poverty-stricken regions. Then, we identified China’s quick and effective actions to match the supply and demand. These findings suggest that emergency responses should coordinate the relationship between emergency actions and the necessary logistics of agricultural production. To prepare for the possibility of such shock in the future, the government should take actions to clear logistics obstacles for necessary transportation, keep enhancing the fundamental infrastructure and effective mechanism of the food supply chain, and actively include innovative techniques to build a more resilient food system.

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“…, 2021). A study in the USA shows that households bought and stored more fruit products during the pandemic (Chenarides et al. , 2021b).…”

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“…For example, limited access to a certain food product may prompt a search for an alternative, resulting in a shift towards more accessible fast foods and processed foods (Bakaloudi et al, 2021). A study in the USA shows that households bought and stored more fruit products during the pandemic (Chenarides et al, 2021b). This reduced supply in the market significantly, so certain groups had to change their diets.…”

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Does the COVID-19 pandemic change food consumption and shopping patterns? Evidence from Indonesian urban households

Toiba

Efani

Rahman

et al. 2022

IJSE

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PurposeThis study investigate changes in food consumption and shopping patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic.Design/methodology/approachThe authors collected cross-sectional data from 507 households in three Indonesian cities, i.e. Surabaya, Surakarta and Bogor, via an online survey and analysed the data using non-parametric tests: the U-Mann Whitney test, the Kruskal–Wallis test and the ordered probit model.FindingsThe results indicate that, during the pandemic, people 1) avoided eating out in a restaurant or cafeteria to reduce transmission risk and cooked at home instead; 2) stocked food products to minimise store visits; 3) chose a healthier diet including fruits and vegetables; and 4) wasted less food. These new trends could be linked to the socio-demographics, i.e. age, education, marital status and income level.Originality/valueThis research was conducted during the peak of the COVID-19 outbreak in Indonesia between July and August 2021, so the findings could inform food-related long-term policymaking and responses to a crisis.Peer reviewThe peer review history for this article is available at: https://publons.com/publon/10.1108/IJSE-11-2021-0666.

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COVID‐19 impact on fruit and vegetable markets: One year later

Cited by 20 publications

References 9 publications

Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada

Diverse adaptation strategies helped local food producers cope with initial challenges of the Covid-19 pandemic: Lessons from Québec, Canada

Overstocked Agricultural Produce and Emergency Supply System in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Responses from China

Does the COVID-19 pandemic change food consumption and shopping patterns? Evidence from Indonesian urban households

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