Impact of COVID-19 on Food Value Chain and the Need of Ethical Safeguarding of Farmers: A Perspective from India

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the ethical implications of COVID19 on the food value chain. The paper investigates the effects of COVID19 on the food value chain through the lens of small-scale farmers in India. In framing the phenomenon within the wider scope of farmers as producers and consumers, the paper discovers that the impact of COVID-19 and related measures on small scale farmers falls under ethical scrutiny because it affects all aspects of the farmers' lives; livelihood, employment, nutrition and diet, and so on. To address such concerns, the paper examines all of the consequences and concludes that, in the aftermath of a pandemic, ethical safeguarding of small-scale farmers is essential for the food value chain's resilience.