Risks in Agricultural Supply Chains

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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.

Pol Antràs is the Robert G. Ory Professor of Economics at Harvard University. David Zilberman is distinguished professor and chair of agriculture and resource economics at the University of California, Berkeley. Preface
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
 

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