Is food security an illusion for cities? A system dynamics approach to assess disturbance in the urban food supply chain during pandemics

Shuang Song, Jenson C.L. Goh and Hugh T.W. Tan

Agricultural Systems, 2021, vol. 189, issue C

Abstract: The urban food security is vulnerable to disturbance along food supply chains because of the relatively long ‘food miles’ and cities' reliance on imported food. Urban food security may be at risk during a pandemic because of the implications of the pandemic on the multiple nodes of a food supply chain, including workforce availability, import availability and consumer demand.

Keywords: Perishable food; Hoarding behaviour; Urban farming; Food wastage (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.agsy.2020.103045

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