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Survey: covid effects on agricultural-food supply chain

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On 14 July 2020 the JRC launched a survey in all 24 EU official languages to monitor the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic on the EU’s agricultural-food supply chain - from farm to fork.

Survey target were companies and businesses (including small enterprises and farmers) active in the production, distribution, processing, wholesale or retail stages of the agri-food supply chain.

The aim was to investigate the resilience, constraints and responses of operators to COVID-19, all along the chain.

Questions covered both the lockdown and easing of lockdown measures, exploring operators’ experiences, thoughts on future prospects and the measures they need to support their activities.

Responses were helpful to provide relevant evidence to EU policymaking. The COVID-19 crisis is putting a significant strain on the EU’s agri-food supply chain.

Measures introduced to slow down the spread of the pandemic - such as quarantine, increased border controls and the shutdown of the economy – imply profound effect on supply chain operators.

The survey was closed on 15 January 2021. This dashboard illustrates the survey's results

Contributors

Celso Jesús Gorrín González; Federica Di Marcantonio; Gloria Solano Hermosilla; Pavel Ciaian; Saulius Tamošiūnas

How to cite

European Commission, Joint Research Centre (2026): Survey: covid effects on agricultural-food supply chain. [Dataset] doi: 10.2905/JRC.K928DGR PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/2a04fc6e-f795-47fb-89d8-4d00fab3b025

Keywords

agri-food supply chaincovid-19farm to forksurvey

Data access

Food chain disruptions due to COVID19
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2. Survey for organisations that support or represent the interest of the businesses in the agri-food chain
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No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • EU Survey

1. Survey for businesses/companies in the agri-food chain
HTML

HTML is the standard markup language used to create web pages and its elements form the building blocks of all websites.

Use conditions
European Commission reuse notice

According to the European Commission reuse notice, reuse is authorised, provided the source is acknowledged. The reuse policy of the European Commission is implemented by the Decision of 12 December 2011. The general principle of reuse can be subject to conditions which may be specified in individual copyright notices. Therefore users are advised to refer to the copyright notices of the individual websites maintained under Europa and of the individual documents. Reuse is not applicable to documents subject to intellectual property rights of third parties.

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No limitations

Anybody can directly and anonymously access the data, without being required to register or authenticate.

  • EU Survey

Temporal coverage

From date To date
2020-01-01 2021-01-01

Additional information

Published by
European Commission, Joint Research Centre
Contact email
Pavel.CIAIAN (at) ec.europa.eu
Update frequency
unknown

The event occurs with unknown regularity.

Language(s)
English

English is a member of the West Germanic group of the Germanic languages. It is an official language of almost 60 sovereign states and is now a global lingua franca.It is the third-most-common native language in the world and it is widely learned as a second language.

Data theme(s)
Agriculture, fisheries, forestry and food

dataset theme covering the domains of agriculture which involves the cultivation of plants and livestock; fisheries which focuses on the harvesting of fish from wild or farmed sources; forestry which relates to the management and conservation of forests and woodlands; and food which includes substances that provide nutritional support to organisms

Geographical name(s)
Europe
Issued date
2020-07-14
Created date
02 Mar 2026 17:07
Modified date
29 Mar 2021 00:00
Landing page
https://datam.jrc.ec.europa.eu/ 
Dataset identifier
http://data.europa.eu/89h/2a04fc6e-f795-47fb-89d8-4d00fab3b025
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