Food system shocks: what’s needed for civil food resilience?

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My talk will:
* Summarise what shocks face the food system – some well-known, some less so.

* Outline official positions on resilience, and ask whether it’s being delivered for food.

* Show that, despite being a Critical National Infrastructure, food lacks full attention.

* Explore the gaps between what’s being done and what could be done.

* Propose we need a systemic approach to how to feed people in crises.

* Stress public engagement is a key to national resilience planning, as is social cohesion.

* Argue the resilience agenda gives urgency to current debates about food and farming.

* Ask what you can contribute to civil food resilience.