COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue
The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19. Overall, the impacts on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by a combination of a generalized economic recession and disruptions in agri‐food supply chains. This paper provides an ove...
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| description | The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19. Overall, the impacts on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by a combination of a generalized economic recession and disruptions in agri‐food supply chains. This paper provides an overview of the contributions to this Special Issue of Agricultural Economics. The papers in this volume confirm that both income shocks and supply disruptions have affected food security and livelihoods the most where supply chains were more poorly integrated, and poverty and market informality had greater presence before COVID‐19. Yet, as the pandemic still has societies worldwide in a stranglehold, outcomes remain uncertain and reliable data are still sparsely available. This Special Issue of Agricultural Economics provides new insights of the pandemics impact on food systems, household welfare, and food security, building on both model‐based scenario analysis and new survey data. These methods have proven helpful in providing these insights amidst the unprecedented shock that the pandemic has caused to production systems and livelihoods worldwide. However, they also suffer from obvious limitations identified in this overview paper and require substantial improvement in order to understand the changes in economic behavior and functioning of food supply chains induced by the pandemic. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1422772025-02-24T06:48:40Z COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue Swinnen, Johan Vos, Rob value chains models agricultural value chains covid-19 households welfare economywide modeling food security diet poverty food systems The food system, and those who depend on it, have been strongly but unevenly affected by COVID‐19. Overall, the impacts on food systems, poverty, and nutrition have been caused by a combination of a generalized economic recession and disruptions in agri‐food supply chains. This paper provides an overview of the contributions to this Special Issue of Agricultural Economics. The papers in this volume confirm that both income shocks and supply disruptions have affected food security and livelihoods the most where supply chains were more poorly integrated, and poverty and market informality had greater presence before COVID‐19. Yet, as the pandemic still has societies worldwide in a stranglehold, outcomes remain uncertain and reliable data are still sparsely available. This Special Issue of Agricultural Economics provides new insights of the pandemics impact on food systems, household welfare, and food security, building on both model‐based scenario analysis and new survey data. These methods have proven helpful in providing these insights amidst the unprecedented shock that the pandemic has caused to production systems and livelihoods worldwide. However, they also suffer from obvious limitations identified in this overview paper and require substantial improvement in order to understand the changes in economic behavior and functioning of food supply chains induced by the pandemic. 2021-06-07 2024-05-22T12:10:15Z 2024-05-22T12:10:15Z Journal Article https://hdl.handle.net/10568/142277 en https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12624 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12626 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12629 https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12631 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abc4765 https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-resource-111920-013613 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133762_03 https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/15740862/2021/52/3 Open Access International Association of Agricultural Economists Swinnen, Johan; and Vos, Rob. 2021. COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue. Agricultural Economics 52(3): 365-374. https://doi.org/10.1111/agec.12623 |
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| title | COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue |
| title_full | COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue |
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| title_short | COVID‐19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare: Key insights from the special issue |
| title_sort | covid 19 impacts on global food systems and household welfare key insights from the special issue |
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