Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains
An essential guide to the role of microeconomic incentives, macro policies, and technological change in enhancing agriculture resilience.
Climate change and the recent COVID-19 pandemic have exposed the vulnerability of global agricultural supply and value chains. There is a growing awareness of the importance of interactions within and between these supply chains for understanding the performance of agricultural markets. This book presents a collection of research studies that develop conceptual models and empirical analyses of risk resilience and vulnerability in supply chains. The chapters emphasize the roles played by microeconomic incentives, macroeconomic policies, and technological change in contributing to supply chain performance. The studies range widely, considering for example how agent-based modeling and remote sensing data can be used to assess the impact of shocks, and how recent shocks such as the COVID-19 pandemic and the African Swine fever in China affected agricultural labor markets, the supply chain for meat products, and the food retailing sector. A recurring theme is the transformation of agricultural supply chains and the volatility of food systems in response to microeconomic shocks. The chapters not only present new findings but also point to important directions for future research.
272 pages | 155 line drawings, 46 tables | 6 x 9 | © 2023
National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Economics and Business: Business--Business Economics and Management Studies, Economics--Agriculture and Natural Resources
Table of Contents
Introduction
Pol Antràs and David Zilberman
1. Symbiotic, Resilient, and Rapidly Transforming Food Supply Chains in LMICs: Supermarket and E-commerce Revolutions Helped by Wholesale and Logistics Co-pivoting
Thomas Reardon and David Zilberman
2. Global Agricultural Value Chains and Structural Transformation
Sunghun Lim
3. Exchange Rate Volatility and Global Food Supply Chains
Sandro Steinbach
4. Fertilizer and Algal Blooms: A Satellite Approach to Assessing Water Quality
Charles A. Taylor and Geoffrey Heal
5. Demand Shocks and Supply Chain Resilience: An Agent-Based Modeling Approach and Application to the Potato Supply Chain
Liang Lu, Ruby Nguyen, Md Mamunur Rahman, and Jason Winfree
6. The Performance and Future of Ag Supply Chains
A. G. Kawamura
7. Exploring Spatial Price Relationships: The Case of African Swine Fever in China
Michael Delgado, Meilin Ma, and H. Holly Wang
8. Concentration and Resilience in the US Meat Supply Chains
Meilin Ma and Jayson L. Lusk
9. Labor Dynamics and Supply Chain Disruption in Food Manufacturing
A. Ford Ramsey, Barry K. Goodwin, and Mildred M. Haley
10. Has Global Agricultural Trade Been Resilient under COVID-19? Findings from an Econometric Assessment of 2020
Shawn Arita, Jason Grant, Sharon Sydow, and Jayson Beckman
Contributors
Author Index
Subject Index