Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania

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“…The price volatility of milk can be controlled in the market with the help of the Common Agriculture Policy (Borawski et al, 2020). This is important because the dairy market is particularly sensitive to changes of the raw milk prices (Ignat and Constantin, 2020). Romanian milk producers compete with farms, not only at national level, but also at international level.…”

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Approaches on the Global Milk Value Chain. A Perspective From the Romanian Milk Market

CONSTANTIN¹,

IGNAT²,

ANDREI³

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy

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The global food value chain encompasses a component of particular importance: the milk market. What makes this component unique is that fact that milk represents an essential part in almost any diet, a key factor for the production of dairy products. The main objective undertook in this research paper was to quantify the pressure put on the global milk chain by Romania. The results highlight that the milk imported quantities represent, on average, 3.5% of the Romanian production of milk in the 2010-2019 period. Romania is a small player in terms of the pressure put on the global milk value chain, from the perspective of milk demand. The loss caused on the Romanian milk chain by the trade deficit can be ameliorated by increasing the national production capacities.

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Approaches on the Global Milk Value Chain. A Perspective From the Romanian Milk Market

CONSTANTIN¹,

IGNAT²,

ANDREI³

2022

Proceedings of the International Conference Competitiveness of Agro-Food and Environmental Economy

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“…The global agri-food system is highly competitive in contemporary economies and has become increasingly complex due to the many changes coming from the consumer demand-side, due to the intensification of complex food standards related to food safety (Nguyen and Jolly, 2020;Paun and Ivascu, 2020) and food quality (Minten et al, 2013), due to the permanent and galloping advances of technology (Zhao et al, 2019;Saurabh & Dey, 2021), and due to various changes in the structure of the system, influenced by the link dynamics along the agri-food value chainhighly sensitive during times of crisis (Arouna et al, 2020;Christiaensen et al, 2020;Ignat & Constantin, 2020).…”

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Modern forms of value creation in the global agri-food chain – Perspectives from the facebook ads market

Constantin

Radulescu

Vasić³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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Competitiveness has always been considered a vector of innovation that is centered around economic performance; constantly pushing companies to achieve better performance results. In such a modern society deeply marked by digitization, value creation has expanded its scope and it is no longer involving only harnessing customer satisfaction through the quality of the products or services marketed to customers, but it is also involving the permanent digital connection and engagement between the links of any value chain. Digital platforms, including social networks, are major sources of economic concentration where different forms of value emerge. For example, Facebook Inc. runs a business model that involves selling online media space for companies willing to pay money to have consumers of goods and services engage with the ads displayed on Facebook platforms, based on specific group targeting. Taking all of this into consideration, the scientific interest in exploring the nature of an emergent form of value along the chain is implicit. This paper brings its unique contribution to the existing literature concerning the topic of agri-food value chains by providing a niche marketing approach on a paradigm shift at the level of the nature of value generated in the chain in the case of highly digitized societies. The research objective was to bring the sustainability factor into the spotlight of the analysis concerning the paradigm shift of the nature of the value generated in the agri-food value chain. Research results show that some multinational corporations active in the Romanian agri-food sector use the Facebook Ad Market to reach consumers and call for them to engage in activities specific to building a sustainable agri-food system. Thus, by engaging in such activities, consumers feel that they contribute to the corporations’ effort in achieving sustainability. Consequently, a different form of value is generated along the chain.

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“…Regarding the actions of the players active in the agri-food industry from the Romanian private sector, the following short-term economic consequences of the COVID-19 crisis were observed: (i) the turnover value index of wholesalers of agricultural raw materials and live animals reached new peaks at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic; (ii) meat and poultry meat products registered the greatest increases of the national production price indices among all agrifood product categories; (iii) during the initial lockdown (March -April 2020), no major prices increase or decrease were observed concerning the agri-food productsnationally (referring to the average price),compared to the period before the COVID-19 outbreak (Ignat and Constantin, 2020b). In some extreme cases, Suceava County for example, the COVID-19 pandemic generated significant changes in regard to consumers purchasing behavior of fresh vegetables (Butu et al, 2020).…”

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Rising tensions along the agri-food value chains during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence based on Google Trends Data

Constantin

Pătărlăgeanu

Dinu

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence

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The global socio-economic and sanitary crisis caused by the COVID-19 pandemic has generated many different effects on the links of the global agri-food value chains regarding the production and consumption behaviors of agri-food products. Depending on the link, these effects can be positive, negative, or even a mix of both. However, all these sudden changes, beneficial or not, they result in deepening the economic tensions existing along the agri-food value chains. In this context, the aim of this research was to explore the rising tensions along the Romanian agri-food value chains during the different stages of the COVID-19 crisis in Romania, while bringing the HoReCa industry in the spotlight of this study, and, more specifically, the food service component. This paper brings contribution to the literature concerning the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic at the level of the agri-food value chains based on a statistical analysis carried out with the data available from two open access sources: Google Trends and the Romanian National Institute of Statistics. A short bibliometric analysis was also elaborated on the papers tackling the topic of the rising tensions along the agri-food value chains during the pandemic. Research results show that the Romanian HoReCa industry has been subject to various challenges emerged from the need to limit the spread of the COVID-19 disease. This has generated a lot of concern – not only from the food security perspective, but also from the perspective of the entrepreneurs active in the agri-food value chains. Food-ordering companies with homedelivery have been of high interest during the COVID-19 pandemic, as they connect two major links in the food chain: restaurants and consumers. While consumers have become more dependent than ever on digital solutions to purchase food, a lot of pressure is put on indoor restaurants.

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Short-Term Effects of COVID-19 Pandemic on Agri-Food Value Chains in Romania

Cited by 6 publications

References 7 publications

Approaches on the Global Milk Value Chain. A Perspective From the Romanian Milk Market

Approaches on the Global Milk Value Chain. A Perspective From the Romanian Milk Market

Modern forms of value creation in the global agri-food chain – Perspectives from the facebook ads market

Rising tensions along the agri-food value chains during the COVID-19 crisis: evidence based on Google Trends Data

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