People: Public Trust and Consumer Advocacy

Posted Date: April 13, 2021

With the massive exodus from large urban centres to suburbs, small towns and rural areas, caused by the COVID-19 crisis, the arrrival of new urban neighbors with different sets of values, norms and little knowledge and understanding of the actual farming realities can have an impact on the social fabric of the host communities.

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Management: Market Disruptions

Posted Date: April 13, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has shown how food supply chain could be disrupted quickly at a large scale, especially in the meat industry but also for dairy and produce. This physical disruption of the supply chain also led to a volatile price environment. More generally, the world is becoming more volatile and riskier with the increasing probability of events having large-scale impacts. Many of these global risks have the potential to profoundly disrupt agriculture and food supply chains: climate change and weather events, epizootics and pandemics. The increased risk of large-scale disruption will certainly lead to changes in how food supply chains are structured and governed.

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