This note assesses the impacts of COVID-19 on the processing sector of Myanmar’s agri-food system.
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Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - November 2020 survey round
This policy note presents results from five rounds of a telephone survey with food vendors conducted in different rural and urban zones of the country, focusing on results from the last round completed.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Rice millers - September 2020 survey round
This is the third policy note in a series presenting the results from rounds of telephone surveys with rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon.
This is the second policy note in a series presenting the results from telephone surveys with approximately 400 rice millers in three important rice-growing regions of Myanmar: Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon.
Monitoring the impacts of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Food vendors - June and July 2020 survey round
It is feared that the COVID-19 pandemic will lead to widespread increases in global poverty and food insecurity and that these negative impacts will concentrate on the most vulnerable segments of the population (Swinnen and McDermott 2020).
To understand how Myanmar’s rice value chain has been affected by the COVID-19 crisis, a series of phone interviews are being conducted with rice millers from Ayeyarwady, Bago, and Yangon.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - Late June 2020 survey round
Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain, forming important links between farms and food processors, exporters, commodity exchange centers, and urban food markets.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Yangon peri-urban poultry farmers - Early July 2020 survey round
Some temporarily closed broiler farms reopened their businesses in early July to meet the recent increasing demand for chicken, but other temporarily closed farms shut down permanently.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Yangon peri-urban poultry farmers – late-June 2020 survey round
With increasing demand for chicken, the reopening rate of broiler farms in June has overtaken closures. Their challenges have switched from the demand side to the supply side due to a shortage of day-old-chicks.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Agricultural commodity traders - May 2020 survey round
Crop traders comprise the mid-stream of Myanmar’s food supply chain. They form important links between farms and food processors, exporters, and other downstream actors.
Monitoring the impact of COVID-19 in Myanmar: Yangon peri-urban poultry farmers - Early June 2020 survey round
Between 2010 and 2015, consumption in Myanmar of chicken and eggs increased by 72 percent and 40 percent, respectively.