The COVID-19 pandemic is one of the most challenging crises the world has faced in recent decades. This volume provides a collection of awarded and short-listed essays on the pandemic’s impacts on food business education and food value chains. The essays were written by students and graduates of the Master of Science programme in International Food Business and Consumer Studies (IFBC). Each essay provides unique refl ections on how students and food professionals have been affected in terms of their education, business or jobs and personal life.