Food security and Canada's agricultural system challenged by COVID‐19

By B. Deaton. Canadian Journal of Agricultural Economics-Revue Canadienne D'Agroeconomie, 2020

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Abstract The effect of COVID‐19 on Canadian food security is examined from two different perspectives. COVID‐19 creates a unique “income shock” that is expected to increase the prevalence of household food insecurity. This food insecurity can be measured by utilizing the Canadian Community Health Survey (CCHS). More fundamentally, COVID‐19 heightens household concern about the capacity of the Canadian food system to ensure food availability. Despite surges in demand and supply chain disruptions, we currently do not observe broad, rapid appreciation in food prices. This suggests that there is an adequate supply of food for the near term. There is less certainty over intermediate and longer time periods because so many factors are in flux, particularly the rate of increases in sicknesses and deaths across the country and globally. Data on these health factors and elements of the food supply chain are needed to predict beyond a short time frame. In this regard, we discuss three ongoing considerations—ease of capital flows, international exchange, and maintaining transportation—that will help ensure food availability in the longer run.

Subfields: General Health Professions

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COVID-19 pandemic related supply chain studies: A systematic review (2021, unknown): “For example, a number of studies of both COVID-19 pandemic and other epidemics suggest restructuring of logistics and supply chains by using techniques such as nearshoring, re-shoring, and back-shoring (Deaton & Deaton, 2020; van Barneveld et al., 2020).”
A case study on strategies to deal with the impacts of COVID-19 pandemic in the food and beverage industry (2020, background): “For example, Deaton and Deaton (2020) investigated the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on food security in the context of Canada’s agricultural system.”