SFP Civic Food Resilience policy asks

The UK's food system is fragile and heavily dependent on global supply chains and centralised, just-in-time infrastructure.  Our communities are not easily able to access healthy, affordable food today, let alone prepared for the food supply shocks that climate, geopolitical and cyber threats are making more likely. Resilience cannot be run from the centre alone – it is delivered locally and strengthened through relationships in place.

The Sustainable Food Places network and food partnerships are the proven vehicle for this food system resilience, but they need Government to act on four fronts:

• Give resilience bodies a remit for food – including food in the official risk registers that local areas plan around.
• Fund and recognise food partnerships – multi-year funding and a formal role in local planning.
• Use public sector food buying and local infrastructure as levers to strengthen supply chains.
• Lock it in through a Good Food Bill – a statutory duty that turns this from good practice into standard practice.

Read our full Civic Food Resilience Policy Briefing