Digitizing Food Supply Chains: A Path to Ensuring Food Security

The COVID-19 pandemic and the conflict between Russia-Ukraine have created and shown the
vulnerabilities in global food supply chains (FSCs), showcasing their importance in securing food security
(Jagtap et al., 2022). Even before these crises, food insecurity has remained a critical global concern, with
over 820 million people facing chronic food insecurity, and 135 million suffering from food insecurity at a
crisis level (FSIN, 2020). These numbers increased during the pandemic, and the conflict between Russia-
Ukraine has further exposed the vulnerability of FSCs, with enormous numbers of livestock vanishing and
large areas of agricultural land rendered unsuitable. [Opening paragraph]