How the coronavirus crisis is affecting food supply eNCA
Meat and dairy producers, as well as fruit and vegetable farmers, struggled to shift supplies from restaurants to grocery stores, creating the perception of shortages for consumers.Retailers and authorities say there are no underlying shortages and supplies of most products have been or will be replenished. Bakery and pasta firms in Europe and North America have increased production.
The logistics to get food from the field to the plate, however, are being increasingly affected and point to longer-term problems. Longer-term, lack of labour is affecting planting and harvesting and could cause shortages and rising prices for staple crops in a throwback to the food crises that shook developing nations a decade ago.With many planes grounded and ship containers hard to find after the initial coronavirus crisis in China, shipments of vegetables from Africa to Europe or fruit from South America to the United States are being disrupted.
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