Agricultural Reviews

  • Year: 2024
  • Volume: 45
  • Issue: 1

Agri-food Systems Amidst COVID-19: A Review

1Department of Food Business Management and Entrepreneurship Development, National Institute of Food Technology Entrepreneurship and Management, Sonepat-131 028, Haryana, India

Abstract

COVID-19 has threatened agri-food sector in countless ways. Various intellectuals fear that if it prevails for long, it might lead to shortage of agricultural inputs coupled with labor shortages, stressed supply chains, price hikes and food insecurity. This paper adds to the existing literature in the agri-business domain through unraveling the imbroglio of similar challenges and shedding light on the practical solutions which shall ultimately pave path for better agricultural systems. It further illustrates how important it is for the governments to bat for the emerging opportunities and score for the robust, efficient and resilient future with the help of QDA software Atlas.ti.

Keywords

Agri-food sector, COVID-19, Opportunities, Problems, QDA, Solutions