As a result of the emergency, there was an increasing trend for the supply of conservable products (pasta, rice, canned fish, canned tomatoes, etc.) to create home stocks and a penalization of highly perishable products, replacing them with those with longer conservation times (oranges, apples, potatoes and carrots rather than strawberries, salads and asparagus) and the tendency to replace fresh products with frozen ones ( Richards & Rickard, 2020 ; ISMEA, 2020a ; ISMEA, 2020b :; ISMEA, 2020c ).
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China and the Switzerland were the only countries analyzed to have achieved a positive trend in the months of March, April and May 2020, both for agricultural products and for drinks, food and tobacco (+23% and +18 respectively).