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Has COVID-19 accelerated the E-commerce of agricultural products? Evidence from sales data of E-stores in China

文献类型: 外文期刊

作者: Guo, Jianxin 1 ; Jin, Songqing 2 ; Zhao, Jichun 1 ; Wang, Hongbiao 1 ; Zhao, Fang 4 ;

作者机构: 1.Beijing Acad Agr & Forestry Sci, Inst Data Sci & Agr Econ, Beijing 100097, Peoples R China

2.Zhejiang Univ, China Acad Rural Dev CARD, Sch Publ Affairs, Hangzhou 310058, Peoples R China

3.Michigan State Univ, Dept Agr Food & Resource Econ, E Lansing, MI 48824 USA

4.BG2 BUBA AILAB GienTech Technol Co Ltd, Beijing 100192, Peoples R China

关键词: COVID-19; Agricultural products; E -commerce; Difference -in -difference; China; Resilience of the supply chain

期刊名称:FOOD POLICY ( 影响因子:6.08; 五年影响因子:7.744 )

ISSN: 0306-9192

年卷期: 2022 年 112 卷

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收录情况: SCI

摘要: We investigated the operation of e-stores specializing in food and agricultural products before and after the occurrence of COVID-19. A difference-in-difference (DID) method was employed to estimate the relationship between COVID-19 and the online sales of agricultural products using data from 164,002 food and agricultural product e-commerce stores (in short, e-stores) of two major Chinese e-commerce platforms in 120 prefectural -level or above cities. The results demonstrated that while COVID-19 and its control measures were associated with a substantial growth in the monthly sales of food and agricultural product e-stores, the growth varies considerably across store scales and with the type of food and agricultural product in which an e-store is specialized. Micro stores experienced much larger growth and played a more important role in maintaining the resilience of the supply chain of food and agricultural products than larger-scale stores; stores selling more essential food items experienced larger growth than those selling leisure food items. A mechanism analysis further revealed that the growth of online sales of agricultural products was mainly driven by changes in con-sumers' food purchase behaviors from offline channels to online channels (i.e., an increase in the number of online customer orders and price per online order) starting with the onset of COVID-19. The results of this paper underscore the importance of e-commerce in maintaining the resilience of the agri-food supply chain and call for public support of the development of micro-and small-scale e-stores to meet consumers' increasing demand for food supply from those types of stores during the pandemic period.

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