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Economic thoughts on COVID‐19 for Canadian food processors
Author(s) -
Hailu Getu
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
canadian journal of agricultural economics/revue canadienne d'agroeconomie
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.505
H-Index - 37
eISSN - 1744-7976
pISSN - 0008-3976
DOI - 10.1111/cjag.12241
Subject(s) - covid-19 , food processing , government (linguistics) , pandemic , food supply , economic impact analysis , business , economics , agricultural economics , microeconomics , political science , virology , medicine , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty) , linguistics , philosophy , disease , pathology , law
In this paper, I explore the potential effects of the COVID‐19 pandemic on Canadian food processors. First, COVID‐19 may have an impact on food processing economic activities because of supply and demand shocks. Second, the impact of COVID‐19 on food processing may depend on the type of products and the size of the processors. The effects of measures taken by the government to flatten the epidemiological curve on the economic activities of the food processing sector are uncertain.