The resilience of long and short food chains: a case study of flooding in Queensland, Australia

Smith, Kiah; Lawrence, Geoffrey; MacMahon, Amy; Muller, Jane; Brady, Michelle

doi:10.1007/s10460-015-9603-1

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“…They propose scale, diversity, responsiveness and cohesion as key features that support resilience. Their empirical findings confirm the relevance of these features in the immediate period following a flood event, though they suggest further research should address disaster resilience in food supply chains over longer temporal scales (Smith et al, 2016). For this thesis, a wider literature is reviewed to help further operationalise resilience in the context of agri-food supply chains facing escalating climate risks and recurrent natural disasters, and to more fully conceptualise its social and actor-level dimensions.…”

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“…Empirical studies have focused on UK or US-based consumer goods manufacturing and retailing companies with global-scale supply chains (Juttner and Maklan, 2011, Pettit et al, 2010, Sheffi and Rice, 2005, while Johnson et al (2013) considered infrastructure reconstruction supply chains. Food supply chains have received limited attention -though recent floods in Australia have catalysed investigation of food supply chain resilience following natural disasters (Smith et al, 2016).…”

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“…Empirical research has largely focused on the re-establishment of food supply in developing nations immediately following disaster events (Gregory et al, 2005, Horner and Downs, 2010, Pettit and Beresford, 2005. Two recent studies, however, have examined the performance of long and short food supply chains following natural disasters in 2011 in Queensland and New South Wales and the implications for food security and community vulnerability (SinghPeterson and Lawrence, 2015, Smith and Lawrence, 2014, Smith et al, 2016. Cities with a high reliance on supermarkets were found to face significant food security challenges, whereas in cities where both longer and shorter food supply chains operated, short food chains were less impacted by floods (Smith et al, 2016).…”

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“…Two recent studies, however, have examined the performance of long and short food supply chains following natural disasters in 2011 in Queensland and New South Wales and the implications for food security and community vulnerability (SinghPeterson and Lawrence, 2015, Smith and Lawrence, 2014, Smith et al, 2016. Cities with a high reliance on supermarkets were found to face significant food security challenges, whereas in cities where both longer and shorter food supply chains operated, short food chains were less impacted by floods (Smith et al, 2016). The national reach and market power of supermarket supply chains, however, facilitated rapid access to alternate suppliers and the capacity to use alternate (and longer) transport routes to minimise disruptions to supply of food (Singh-Petersen and , Smith et al, 2016.…”

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“…Cities with a high reliance on supermarkets were found to face significant food security challenges, whereas in cities where both longer and shorter food supply chains operated, short food chains were less impacted by floods (Smith et al, 2016). The national reach and market power of supermarket supply chains, however, facilitated rapid access to alternate suppliers and the capacity to use alternate (and longer) transport routes to minimise disruptions to supply of food (Singh-Petersen and , Smith et al, 2016.…”

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Cultivating climate change resilience in agri-food systems: responses to natural disasters and emerging climate risks in Queensland’s fresh produce supply chains

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Over the last decade, Australia has experienced several severe natural disasters which have caused significant disruptions to its agri-food supply chains. Global climate change is driving an increase in the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events that can lead to natural disasters. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warns that climate change -and extreme weather events, in particular -pose significant threats to food security. While much food security research focusses on developing nations, contemporary, supermarket-based food systems have a number of characteristics that make them highly vulnerable to disruptions from extreme weather events. The experience of recent disasters and projections of on-going climate change suggest that Australia's food systems are facing escalating climate risks to which they must adapt.This thesis considers how the agri-food supply chains that underpin Australia's food system are enabled or constrained to cope with emerging climate risks and, in particular, to a more rapid recurrence of damaging weather events. In this thesis, supply chains are The results of the study demonstrate that the impacts of recent natural disasters were unevenly distributed within the supply chain. Upstream segments of the chain (that is, business involved in vegetable production, packing and transport) experienced more significant impacts and longer recovery periods than downstream segments (such as wholesalers and retailers). The study finds that this is strongly linked to an uneven distribution of vulnerability to risks in the chain which, combined with the rapid recurrence of disaster events, has weakened the fresh produce supply system.ii The study provides important insights into perceptions, and social constructions, of recent weather events and climate risks amongst actors within fresh produce supply chainsaddressing a significant gap in the literature. The results suggest that a shared narrative about Australia's highly variable climate strongly influences a collective construction amongst supply chain actors which normalises and attenuates climate risk. The study finds, however, that recent extreme weather events have unsettled this dominant construct. Perceptions of future climate risks amongst supply chain actors were varied.Those strongly influenced by the climate variability narrative did not expect future risks to be much different from those experienced in the past. A smaller number of research participants, however, were concerned that climate risks may be escalating and that this may require changes to how those risks were managed.The study found two strongly contrasting approaches to the governance of climate risk in fresh produce supply chains. The findings demonstrate that, typically, climate risks are governed in highly individualised ways but that the emergence of new supply chain intermediaries is facilitating a more collective approach to climate risk governance in some chains. The research also shows that recent recurrent floods have catalysed...

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The Global Food System is Not Broken but Its Resilience is Threatened

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Daguet

Dury

2023

Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy

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The global food system is not broken. Apart from specific contexts, access to food has never been so easy as it is today. The global food system has been resilient and able to adapt during the twentieth century to many shocks and stressors such as an unprecedented population growth. The huge increase in production has exceeded the demographic growth. Together with the expansion of trade, they have been key in ensuring food system resilience of most countries, including those with limited resources. Yet, a profound transformation is needed for the following reasons: (i) food is today the major problem in public health, (ii) the economics of food chains fuel inequalities, and (iii) food systems are responsible for major environmental and climatic damage. Numerous calls for engaging in such a transformation highlight the need for a paradigm shift. However, despite such shared observations and alerts, no “great transformation” is taking place, for different reasons, including conflicts of interest. Resilience of food systems in the twenty-first century can thus be considered a property that is constrained by past transformation. Resilience depends on the ability to change the very drivers that made food systems resilient in the twentieth century.

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A Literature Review on Risk Sources and Resilience Factors in Agri-Food Supply Chains

Zhao

Liu

López

2017

IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology

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The resilience of long and short food chains: a case study of flooding in Queensland, Australia

Cited by 87 publications

References 46 publications

Cultivating climate change resilience in agri-food systems: responses to natural disasters and emerging climate risks in Queensland’s fresh produce supply chains

Cultivating climate change resilience in agri-food systems: responses to natural disasters and emerging climate risks in Queensland’s fresh produce supply chains

The Global Food System is Not Broken but Its Resilience is Threatened

A Literature Review on Risk Sources and Resilience Factors in Agri-Food Supply Chains

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