In the event of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, with limiting movement of goods, personal freedoms restrictions of consumers and causing border closure in several countries, short food supply chains and local food production can play a relevant and essential role to guarantee the availability of food. For more information, please read this very interesting article of Alessio Cappelli and Enrico Cini (University of Florence, Italy):
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0924224420304027