COVID-19 Impact on Poultry Production and Distribution Networks in Bangladesh

The COVID-19 pandemic has severely affected numerous economic sectors across the world, including livestock production. This study investigates how the pandemic has impacted the poultry production and distribution network (PDN), analyses stakeholders' changing circumstances, and provides recommendations for rapid and long-term resilience. This is based on a literature review, social media monitoring, and key informant interviews (n = 36) from across the poultry sector in Bangladesh. These included key informants from breeder farms and hatcheries, pharmaceutical suppliers, feed companies, dealers, farmers, middlemen, and vendors. We show that the poultry sector was damaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, partly as a result of the lockdown and also by rumors that poultry and their products could transmit the disease. This research shows that hardly any stakeholder escaped hardship. Disrupted production and transportation, declining consumer demand and volatile markets brought huge financial difficulties, even leading to the permanent closure of many farms. We show that the extent of the damage experienced during the first months of COVID-19 was a consequence of how interconnected stakeholders and businesses are across the poultry sector. For example, a shift in consumer demand in live bird markets has ripple effects that impact the price of goods and puts pressure on traders, middlemen, farmers, and input suppliers alike. We show how this interconnectedness across all levels of the poultry industry in Bangladesh makes it fragile and that this fragility is not a consequence of COVID-19 but has been revealed by it. This warrants long-term consideration beyond the immediate concerns surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Designing a CRM Framework for online & offline sports footwear retailers

"Carácter" Revista Cientifica de la Universidad Del Pacifico ISSN 2602-8476 ◽

10.35936/caracter.v3i1.41 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 3 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Rodrigo Cueva ◽

Guillem Rufian ◽

Maria Gabriela Valdes

Keyword(s):

Environmental Changes ◽

Customer Relationship ◽

Business Strategies ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Running Shoes ◽

Brick And Mortar ◽

Key Factor ◽

On Line ◽

The Impact

The use of Customer Relationship Managers to foster customers loyalty has become one of the most common business strategies in the past years. However, CRM solutions do not fill the abundance of happily ever-after relationships that business needs, and each client’s perception is different in the buying process. Therefore, the experience must be precise, in order to extend the loyalty period of a customer as much as possible. One of the economic sectors in which CRM’s have improved this experience is retailing, where the personalized attention to the customer is a key factor. However, brick and mortar experiences are not enough to be aware in how environmental changes could affect the industry trends in the long term. A base unified theoretical framework must be taken into consideration, in order to develop an adaptable model for constructing or implementing CRMs into companies. Thanks to this approximation, the information is complemented, and the outcome will increment the quality in any Marketing/Sales initiative. The goal of this article is to explore the different factors grouped by three main domains within the impact of service quality, from a consumer’s perspective, in both on-line and off-line retailing sector. Secondly, we plan to go a step further and extract base guidelines about previous analysis for designing CRM’s solutions focused on the loyalty of the customers for a specific retailing sector and its product: Sports Running Shoes.

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Intensification of fragility: poultry production and distribution in Bangladesh and its implications for disease risk

Preventive Veterinary Medicine ◽

10.1016/j.prevetmed.2021.105367 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 105367

Author(s):

Mathew Hennessey ◽

Guillaume Fournié ◽

Md. Ahasanul Hoque ◽

Paritosh Kumar Biswas ◽

Pablo Alarcon ◽

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Keyword(s):

Disease Risk ◽

Poultry Production ◽

Production And Distribution

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Global Food Security in a Pandemic: The Case of the New Coronavirus (COVID-19)

World ◽

10.3390/world1020013 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 1 (2) ◽

pp. 171-190

Author(s):

Diosey Ramon Lugo-Morin

Keyword(s):

Food Security ◽

New Technologies ◽

Respiratory Infections ◽

Economic Sectors ◽

Global Food Security ◽

The World ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

Novel Coronavirus ◽

And Control ◽

Global Food

The world is currently experiencing a pandemic: a virus in the family Coronaviridae is causing serious respiratory infections in humans. The outbreak of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) was declared a pandemic by the WHO on 11 March 2020. The outbreak began in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, and has since spread throughout the world. Despite measures taken by governments throughout the world to contain and control the spread, economic disruption at the global level is imminent and will affect all economic sectors, particularly the food sector. In a post-pandemic scenario, the use of new technologies will be decisive in a new model of food commercialization. The production and distribution of food will be configured to make supply chains optimal and safe systems. Against this background, the present study aims to explore and analyze the implications of the COVID-19 pandemic for global food security.

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Effects of Long-Term Flow Variation on Microhydropower Energy Production in Pressure Reducing Valves in Water Distribution Networks

Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management ◽

10.1061/(asce)wr.1943-5452.0000731 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 143 (3) ◽

pp. 04016076 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Jennifer Brady ◽

John Gallagher ◽

Lucy Corcoran ◽

Paul Coughlan ◽

Aonghus McNabola

Keyword(s):

Energy Production ◽

Water Distribution ◽

Distribution Networks ◽

Water Distribution Networks ◽

Flow Variation

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The Trans-Asian Pathways of ‘Oriental Products’: Navigating the prohibition of narcotics between Turkey, China, and Japan, 1918–1938

Modern Asian Studies ◽

10.1017/s0026749x20000566 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-43

Author(s):

DANIEL-JOSEPH MACARTHUR-SEAL

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Linear Trend ◽

League Of Nations ◽

Turkish Government ◽

Medical Market ◽

Opium Production ◽

Production And Distribution ◽

Historic Significance ◽

Drug Prohibition

Abstract Patterns of opium production and distribution shifted immensely over the course of the twentieth century, with output falling by three-quarters, almost nine-tenths of which now takes place in Afghanistan. Supporters of drug prohibition trumpet the success of this long-term decline and hail the withdrawal of the four largest opium producers—India, China, Iran, and the Ottoman empire—from the non-medical market, but this seemingly linear trend conceals numerous deviations of historic significance. Among the most notable and little known is Turkey's prolonged resistance to international restrictions on the narcotics trade and the efforts of state and non-state networks to substitute Turkish opium for the diminishing supply of once-dominant Indian exports to a still opium-hungry China in the first half of the twentieth century. This article uses neglected League of Nations and Turkish government sources alongside international newspapers and diplomatic reports to demonstrate the extent of connections forged by state and non-state actors between Turkey and East Asia, expanding on recent research on trans-Asian connections in commerce and political thought.

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