Abstract:
As a new agitator of Supply Chain disruptions, COVID-19 global pandemic has significantly
triggered an extraordinary series of shocks on food supply chains worldwide including bottlenecks
in farm labor, processing, transportation, and logistics, as well as the significant swings in customer
demand. Many of these strains are the consequences of policies enacted to prevent spreading the
virus. The food industry is one of the important sectors in each economy. While the consequences
of COVID-19 are still being felt, past experience has shown the necessity of a well-organized and
foreseeable global trade environment in ensuring that food reaches people in need. In order to
avoid the impending global food crisis, it's critical to examine how COVID-19 has impacted food
supply networks and to discover the potential remedies. Hence, the main objectives of this
literature analysis are to examine the nature of COVID-19's induced food supply chain disruptions
in worldwide and to highlight strategies needed to mitigate the adverse effects of pandemic on
the food supply chains as well as to enhance the resilience of worldwide food supply chains. This
scrutiny has been conducted using a comprehensive and systematic review of literature published
in relation to the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains and this study included the content of
30 articles which were selected as per the Prisma approach. In reviewing the selected literature,
steps of thematic analysis are considered to derive the major findings. The COVID-19 pandemic
necessitated the adoption of emergency-preparedness procedures and the development of food
supply chain contractual transactions across the worldwide nations. Without reverting to the
previous state of food supply chains, novel experience resultant from COVID-19 emphasized the
importance of building a smart food value chain with the involvement of all value adding
stakeholders in order to ensure the resilience amidst and beyond the crisis.
