What is food resilience planning?
Food resilience planning involves taking actions to strengthen the resilience of food systems to the impacts of shocks and stresses. It promotes food security in the face of disruptions to food systems from climate change, geopolitical events or pandemics.
Why is it important?
Global food systems are being affected by more frequent and severe shocks that disrupt food supply chains, such as climate shocks. They are also under pressure from underlying stresses, such as biodiversity loss and high levels of food waste. These shocks and stresses contribute to rising food prices and food insecurity.
A resilient food system delivers an adequate supply of nutritious and culturally acceptable food to everyone, even during shocks to the system. Resilient food systems can adapt and transform, building longer term resilience to future shocks and stresses.
Who should do it?
Government, industry and civil society stakeholders all have a role in food resilience planning. This includes people in positions and sectors related to sustainability and climate adaptation, urban planning, emergency management, economic development, public health and waste management.
Where to start
Need to advocate for food resilience planning to colleagues?
Make the case for food resilience planning
Trying to collect data related to the local food system?
Identify vulnerabilities to shocks and map assets for resilience
Want to learn about a rights-based approach to promote food security?
Promote equitable and dignified access to adequate food
Want to incorporate food resilience planning into strategic documents?
Develop a collective vision for a resilient food system
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