COVID-19 impact: Miguel Gómez on food supply chains

Miguel Gómez, a Cornell University expert on food markets and supply chains, says food supply chains must become more flexible so that goods can be more easily directed to either supermarkets or food service establishments. Current inflexibility has resulted in milk and produce being discarded rather than distributed to the food banks that desperately need it. “So far, these two supply chains have worked completely independently,” he says.

Gómez is an associate professor at the Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management and a faculty fellow of the Cornell AtkinsonCenter for Sustainability. His research focuses on supply chain competitiveness and sustainability, and on such concepts as demand response, buyer-seller negotiations, and market power.

[cedroroyal]

Thank you Prof. This is really important now that global food security is at stake in terms of production and distribution

[KatY-vylz]

Translation, go find your local farmer/CSA (community sponsored agriculture) and buy directly from them.

[hdb]

We deserve to starve. Decades reckless blatant environment health eroding industry and consumer greed has resulted in what we exactly have now. There is also something vile and wrong where farmers constantly struggle with generational debt to feed the ungrateful, lazy, arrogant and ignorant. Congratulations, job well done!