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What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system?
What does a global pandemic mean for a global food system? In the last few weeks, we have all experienced the impact that COVID-19 has had on food supplies. With supermarkets picked clean, many are wondering whether this is a short-term reaction to the crisis or a prelude to more significant shortages as global trade […]
Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil
Meat Prices Suddenly Surge As Food Processing Plants Shut Down, With 1000s Of Tons Left To Spoil As we pointed out earlier in the week, China-owned Smithfield Food’s decision to temporarily shutter the largest pork processing plant in the US, based in Sioux Falls, SD, due to a coronavirus outbreak is a much more significant even than […]
It’s Not Just Toilet Paper, Seed Shortages Spread As Locked-Down Americans Turn To Growing Their Own Food
It’s Not Just Toilet Paper, Seed Shortages Spread As Locked-Down Americans Turn To Growing Their Own Food Americans are panic hoarding plant seeds as the coronavirus outbreak confines millions to their homes, crashes the economy, and disrupts food supply chains. This has resulted in people questioning their food security. A Google search of “buy seeds” has […]
Global Food Supply Chains Beginning to Erode, Crisis Looms?
Global Food Supply Chains Beginning to Erode, Crisis Looms? As the coronavirus continues to infect more and more people, food supply chains have started to become more strained in recent days. It was announced yesterday; the world’s biggest pork producer is closing a primary U.S plant indefinitely after a coronavirus outbreak amongst employees. Smithfield Foods […]
In Praise of Short Supply Chains
In Praise of Short Supply Chains As the coronavirus pandemic affects every area of the food supply chain, the ORFC team find out how Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), box schemes and others working with shorter supply chains are responding to the sudden huge demand for their supplies. For many people farming, growing or producing food […]
Canadian Meat Industry Warns Of “Immediate And Drastic” Impact To Supply
Canadian Meat Industry Warns Of “Immediate And Drastic” Impact To Supply We have been covering the impact of coronavirus on meat processing facilities in the U.S. and now it looks as though Canada is feeling the shockwaves as well. The country’s supply chain could come under pressure as industry leaders in Canada have warned of “immediate and […]
The Self Sufficiency Surge
The Self Sufficiency Surge Gardening journalist, Kim Stoddart examines the grow your own phenomenon that has emerged as a result of fears around food security since the pandemic lockdown. In the days leading up to the restrictions (and ever since), there has been a sheer frenzy of interest in fruit and vegetable growing as people seek to […]
COVID 19 and Our Food Supply
COVID 19 and Our Food Supply Though food is still plentiful, with only temporary and localized shortages, the threat of the COVID 19 crisis to the food supply is considerable. There is no evidence thus far that the disease can be transmitted via food or packaging (though the virus apparently remains viable on plastic for […]
Coronavirus is bad: The economic fallout may be more deadly
Coronavirus is bad: The economic fallout may be more deadly The immediate impacts of the Coronavirus worldwide and in the United States is horrific but the economic fallout after this pandemic ends may be more deadly. Economic Fallout Caused By Coronavirus Will Be Far Worse But the economic fallout and resulting impact on our fragile just-in-time supply-chain […]
China Suffers Economic Double-Whammy As Current Global Demand Collapse Follows Earlier Supply Crash
China Suffers Economic Double-Whammy As Current Global Demand Collapse Follows Earlier Supply Crash As the first quarter is about to close, many Chinese factories are still operating below full capacity, have been gradually ramping up production over the last several weeks as government data suggests the country’s pandemic curve has flattened. But as Bloomberg notes, there is a serious […]
Don’t Look Now But The People Responsible For The World’s Food Supply Are Starting To Get Sick
Don’t Look Now But The People Responsible For The World’s Food Supply Are Starting To Get Sick Sanderson Farms, a large poultry manufacturer and Smithfield Foods, the world’s largest pork producer, have both reported their first couple of positive cases of coronavirus. This raises the obvious question: what happens when people critical to the world’s food […]
“Rolling Natural Disaster” – COVID-19 Supply Chain Shock Could Trigger Global Depression
“Rolling Natural Disaster” – COVID-19 Supply Chain Shock Could Trigger Global Depression Evidence of creaking global supply chains is fast emerging, at risk of triggering the next global depression amid the COVID-19 pandemic. A supply chain crisis that began earlier this year, one that we warned from the very start, has now spread across Asia to the Middle […]
COVID-19 And Global Supply Chains: Watch Out For Bullwhip Effects
COVID-19 And Global Supply Chains: Watch Out For Bullwhip Effects In an earlier piece on the COVID-19 (Wuhan Coronavirus), I talked about how supply chain disruptions seemed to be occurring in slow-motion. A recent report from the Journal of Commerce warned of an imminent shortage of shipping containers in inland U.S. locations. How could these things be connected, and are we at […]
