Comparative resilience of US and EU meat processing to the Covid19 pandemic

Abstract

Despite the similarities in the drop and recovery patterns of US and EU meat production during the Covid19 pandemic, the literature in the two continents assessed their respective meat processing industries' resilience differently - resilient in the EU and non-resilient in the US but offered no resilience metrics in support of their assessments. We cast the differing transatlantic views in the context of the economic resilience literature and operationalize several metrics for cattle, pig, and chicken slaughter. We find the US less resilient than the EU in cattle and pig slaughter. Resilience in chicken slaughter depends on which metric is used. We discuss

Published in

Food Policy
2023, volume: 119, article number: 102517
Publisher: ELSEVIER SCI LTD

SLU Authors

• Gren, Ing-Marie

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

• Andersson, Hans

  • Department of Economics, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
    

UKÄ Subject classification

Economics
Food Science

Publication identifier

• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.foodpol.2023.102517

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https://res.slu.se/id/publ/126392