Inside Covid-19's Impact on the Food World

Grocery stores overrun. Restaurants forced to close their doors. Farmers dumping unsold produce by the tons. The food world has been hit hard by Covid-19. What lasting effects will this year’s disruptions have? How are industry players helping one another and working to make the food supply chain more resilient?

Chef José Andrés joins food correspondent Kim Severson to discuss the state of the restaurant industry, and how his charitable organization, World Central Kitchen, is putting restaurant workers back to work by preparing meals for more than 400 communities in need.

Then we’ll go behind the scenes to explore the ways food is grown, prepared and distributed globally, as Times On Tech writer Shira Ovide sits down with Sara Menker, founder and C.E.O. of agribusiness tech innovator Gro Intelligence; and Greg Lehmkuhl, president and C.E.O. of cold storage giant Lineage Logistics. They’ll discuss the lessons from this unprecedented year, and explore how data, A.I. and robotics is helping make the entire food supply chain safer and more efficient.

Presented by Deloitte

[pastorofreality]

I have a degree in Food Science and have 25 years of experience working for some of the nation's largest food processing companies, 7 1/2 years experience working for the USDA Food Safety Inspection Service and now I am working in the retail sector.
Here are two comments:
1. You failed to mention or discuss the most important pandemic related change to the food supply chains.
2. Based on my personal experience, I would have answered the questions with very different conclusions than the panel came up with.
But, you were correct about the spike in sales of home freezers and refrigerators. They are still selling very well.

[jangjihye]

then, they are a lot of sea food, fresh meat, cucumber and banana milk.
which place there are different distribution of food system, but there is generic modification food supply chain, america.
people want to live longer and want to eat better, quality time, and fair price. <3
starving make people do violence and shake local city food. Action to give solution to problem, poverty comes when we are cold. Need to think nephews and newcomers.