Abstract
Although the pandemic phenomenon is not the first of its kind in human history, the common feature of COVID-19 is its rapid impact on the global economy. The challenge for the national economy on the world stage is to maintain a continuous food supply. The scientific purpose of the study is to report, analyze and evaluate backgrounds, causes of instabilities and their effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on supply and demand side of the meat market in the United States of America, China and Russia. The practical purpose of the study is to present implemented measures and recommendations on how to return to meat market equilibrium. In the theoretical part of the study, the revised public source of information coming from well-known organizations such as: EC, FAO, OECD, and WB, are used. In the practical part of the manuscript, qualitative research on the People’s Republic of China, Russian Federation, and the United States of America, along with semi-structured in-depth interviews with experts and Ishikawa diagram are presented. The primary data come from authors’ own research and collection of multiple sources. The article indicates the use of qualitative systematic review, supported by a creation of a prototype of the issues of maintaining continuity of the food supply chain during the COVID-19 pandemic in the secondary sources, intensified by a keyword search. The results of the research are diverse and oriented toward the needs of the analyzed meat markets. In the case of the People’s Republic of China, the solution is to develop a system of subsidies and preferential rates for the use of rail transport in exports. In the case of Russia, the solution is to provide support to the meat and poultry farmers for cold storage of slaughtered animals. In the case of the USA, the solution is to develop technical and technological facilities in order to speed up the supply chain between local livestock with meat and poultry farmers. Moreover, the outcomes indicate that sustainability of the food supply chain needs well-thought-out support on agri-food supply production.
Highlights
Case study in order to gain the knowledge on good pandemic worldwide in the practices in maintaining continuity of food supply chains on different continents
Agriculture and the food sector play an important role in the Chinese economy
The COVID-19 pandemic holds a large number of different implications for food supply chains across the world
Summary
Food Supply Chains during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Food, as one of the most complicated sets of chemical elements, is the third most important thing for living [1]. According to article 2 of the Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 [2] “food means any substance or product, whether processed, partially processed or unprocessed, intended to be, or reasonably expected to be, ingested by humans. Food includes beverages, chewing gum and any substance, including water, knowingly added to food during its manufacture, preparation or handling. The purpose of consuming food is to provide the human body with essential nutrients (building blocks, energy and regulation). Foods, when taken orally, are digested in the digestive tract and the nutrients are absorbed into the body [1]
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