Food supply chains and resilience to shocks: Evidence from India’s COVID-19 lockdown

Gupta, N. and Shaw, A. and Vemireddy, V. (2025) Food supply chains and resilience to shocks: Evidence from India’s COVID-19 lockdown. [Publications (Pre-joining)]

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Abstract

We study the disruption of food supply to households and reduced farm-to-market arrivals in India's food supply chain during the COVID-19 lockdown. We focus on the relationship between logistics quality (and performance) and the intensity of disruptions across India's states. We find four policy-relevant findings: (1) Food consumption expenditure was higher in states with better logistics quality; (2) These states recovered more quickly from farm-to-market disruptions with higher agricultural market arrivals in the later phases of the lockdown; (3) Rural food supply chains turned out to be as vulnerable as urban ones; and (4) Expenditure on cereals and pulses faced large reductions.

Item Type:	Publications (Pre-joining)
Authors:	Gupta, N. and Shaw, A. and Vemireddy, V.
Document Language:	Language English
Subjects:	Technology > Medicine & health Technology > Management & public relations Technology > General Management > Executive management > Crisis management
Divisions:	Azim Premji University - Bengaluru > School of Arts and Sciences
Full Text Status:	Public
URI:	http://publications.azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/id/eprint/6447
Publisher URL:	https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/20405804

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