The current international scenario with the war in Ukraine will have potential impacts on agri-food systems across the world. This scenario will change the balance of power among actors in the agri-food sector. High margins of uncertainty are common across supply chains in the face of uncontrolled increases in raw material prices and an uncertain guarantee of supply. This uncertainty is compounded by rising energy prices, putting the entire agrifood supply chain, which is highly energy-intensive, in crisis. In addition, the current war scenario could impact the demand for agricultural and food products by changing consumers' purchasing habits.
Increasing the resilience of agri-food systems may need to become a priority for many national economic systems. In this scenario, the routes to achieve resilient agrifood systems are numerous and include reducing agriculture's dependence on energy, energy-intensive imports and raw material imports. Resilience also requires diversified import sources and market outlets through sound multilateral and bilateral trade policy.
In this context, many questions become topical such as:
- What impact will rising food prices have on consumer demand?
- What impact will the increase in energy and raw material prices for the food industry have?
- What impact will there be on the dynamics of the energy transition to renewable energy sources?
- What strategies will companies in the agricultural sector adopt to cope with the crisis?
- How will international trade scenarios for agricultural products change?
- What will be the most appropriate policy strategies to cope with these scenarios?
This Research Topic will attempt to provide answers to these questions for the use of the academic community, policymakers and the general public. This Research Topic welcomes studies that take interdisciplinary approaches, covering economic items associated with the analysis of demand and offer curves. Studies addressing the implications of this recent scenario on policy, regulation and public perception are also welcome. Interdisciplinary studies that identify constraints, thresholds and opportunities for enhancing levels of sustainability and resilience of the supply chains are particularly welcome, as are studies that balance potential positive and/or negative impacts of different pathways of agro-industrial development across scales of space and time.
The current international scenario with the war in Ukraine will have potential impacts on agri-food systems across the world. This scenario will change the balance of power among actors in the agri-food sector. High margins of uncertainty are common across supply chains in the face of uncontrolled increases in raw material prices and an uncertain guarantee of supply. This uncertainty is compounded by rising energy prices, putting the entire agrifood supply chain, which is highly energy-intensive, in crisis. In addition, the current war scenario could impact the demand for agricultural and food products by changing consumers' purchasing habits.
Increasing the resilience of agri-food systems may need to become a priority for many national economic systems. In this scenario, the routes to achieve resilient agrifood systems are numerous and include reducing agriculture's dependence on energy, energy-intensive imports and raw material imports. Resilience also requires diversified import sources and market outlets through sound multilateral and bilateral trade policy.
In this context, many questions become topical such as:
- What impact will rising food prices have on consumer demand?
- What impact will the increase in energy and raw material prices for the food industry have?
- What impact will there be on the dynamics of the energy transition to renewable energy sources?
- What strategies will companies in the agricultural sector adopt to cope with the crisis?
- How will international trade scenarios for agricultural products change?
- What will be the most appropriate policy strategies to cope with these scenarios?
This Research Topic will attempt to provide answers to these questions for the use of the academic community, policymakers and the general public. This Research Topic welcomes studies that take interdisciplinary approaches, covering economic items associated with the analysis of demand and offer curves. Studies addressing the implications of this recent scenario on policy, regulation and public perception are also welcome. Interdisciplinary studies that identify constraints, thresholds and opportunities for enhancing levels of sustainability and resilience of the supply chains are particularly welcome, as are studies that balance potential positive and/or negative impacts of different pathways of agro-industrial development across scales of space and time.