Fritz Roka’s research while affiliated with Florida Gulf Coast University and other places

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Publications (3)


An Interview Guide for Assessing Change, Innovation, and Risk Management within the Food System in Response to COVID-19: FE1144, 8/2024
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Extension professionals were, and in many cases still are, heavily involved in assessing how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted agribusiness operations and the broader food system. This publication describes the process that a core project team of Extension professionals and researchers from the University of Florida and Florida Gulf Coast University followed to design and implement an interview guide to harmonize the collection of such information from food system businesses in Florida. We discuss benefits of this method, tools that improved efficiency during implementation, and considerations for others who might want to modify and use this interview guide in their own state or region.

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Pandemic Produce: Impacts of COVID-19 on Florida’s Fruit and Vegetable Industries

April 2023

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Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization

Florida has one of the most diverse agricultural economies in the United States, producing several dozen types of fruits and vegetables that are consumed within the state, across the country, and around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic and resulting policy responses occurred during the peak of spring harvest season for many crops in Florida, abruptly removing market demand from the food service industry and shifting consumer purchasing habits, which enabled insights into several aspects of the fruit and vegetable supply chain. This article examines how the COVID-19 pandemic impacted fruit and vegetable industries in Florida, how these industries responded to COVID-19 impacts, and how Florida’s experience compared to that of other states. Data are derived from several sources including a statewide survey that measured agricultural production losses in Florida resulting from COVID-19 in early 2020, interviews with Florida operations that provided insights into how the pandemic induced change across the food supply chain, and a survey of food supply chain operations in three regions of the United States conducted in 2021.


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... The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruptions to global supply chains and impacted agri-food production and distribution systems (Altieri and Nicholls, 2020;Court et al., 2023), highlighting the vulnerabilities of long and complex food supply systems. In response, there has been a growing interest in shorter supply chains (DuPuis et al., 2022), which are seen as being more resilient and adaptable. ...

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Innovation in isolation: diffusion of local foods purchasing and online shopping methods during the pandemic
Pandemic Produce: Impacts of COVID-19 on Florida’s Fruit and Vegetable Industries

Journal of Agricultural & Food Industrial Organization