Food supply chains: Business resilience, innovation, and adaptation
Private sector enterprises all along food supply chains must play a central role in food system resilience and transformation; the pandemic revealed some of the sector’s weaknesses and strengths that can help to build greater resilience and reach other Sustainable Development Goals. KEY MESSAGES - T...
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| description | Private sector enterprises all along food supply chains must play a central role in food system resilience and transformation; the pandemic revealed some of the sector’s weaknesses and strengths that can help to build greater resilience and reach other Sustainable Development Goals. KEY MESSAGES - The pandemic disrupted food supply chains through government-imposed lockdowns and restrictions, affecting labor supply, input provisioning, logistics, and distribution channels, and shifting consumer demand for food. - Impacts differed by the degree of integration and modernization of food supply chains. - “Transitioning” supply chains were the most vulnerable - these chains are long but still poorly integrated, face infrastructure limitations, and are dominated by SMEs that depend heavily on hired labor. - Traditional supply chains also suffered, but less so being generally short and relying on family labor. - Modern, integrated supply chains were better positioned to adapt and innovate. Businesses that were able to “pivot” or innovate rapidly fared well, using either their own capacity or intermediaries to expand e-platforms for supply and delivery. - Ongoing trends, most notably the growth of supermarket-style retail, e-commerce, and food delivery, were accelerated by the pandemic. - Recent innovations such as e-commerce offer opportunities for SMEs in food supply chains. |
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| spelling | CGSpace1433322025-11-06T04:18:05Z Food supply chains: Business resilience, innovation, and adaptation Reardon, Thomas Vos, Rob innovation supply chains sustainable development goals shock supply balance policies covid-19 enterprises nutrition small and medium enterprises information and communication technologies quarantine diet pandemics resilience food systems Private sector enterprises all along food supply chains must play a central role in food system resilience and transformation; the pandemic revealed some of the sector’s weaknesses and strengths that can help to build greater resilience and reach other Sustainable Development Goals. KEY MESSAGES - The pandemic disrupted food supply chains through government-imposed lockdowns and restrictions, affecting labor supply, input provisioning, logistics, and distribution channels, and shifting consumer demand for food. - Impacts differed by the degree of integration and modernization of food supply chains. - “Transitioning” supply chains were the most vulnerable - these chains are long but still poorly integrated, face infrastructure limitations, and are dominated by SMEs that depend heavily on hired labor. - Traditional supply chains also suffered, but less so being generally short and relying on family labor. - Modern, integrated supply chains were better positioned to adapt and innovate. Businesses that were able to “pivot” or innovate rapidly fared well, using either their own capacity or intermediaries to expand e-platforms for supply and delivery. - Ongoing trends, most notably the growth of supermarket-style retail, e-commerce, and food delivery, were accelerated by the pandemic. - Recent innovations such as e-commerce offer opportunities for SMEs in food supply chains. 2021-04-03 2024-05-22T12:13:27Z 2024-05-22T12:13:27Z Book Chapter https://hdl.handle.net/10568/143332 en https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293991 https://doi.org/10.2499/p15738coll2.133762_30 Open Access application/pdf International Food Policy Research Institute Reardon, Thomas; and Vos, Rob. 2021. Food supply chains: Business resilience, innovation, and adaptation. In 2021 Global food report: Transforming food systems after COVID-19. Chapter 6, Pp. 64-73. Washington, DC: International Food Policy Research Institute (IFPRI). https://doi.org/10.2499/9780896293991_06. |
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| title | Food supply chains: Business resilience, innovation, and adaptation |
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