Food system resilience: concepts, issues, and challenges

Zurek, Monika; Ingram, John; Sanderson Bellamy, Angelina; Goold, Conor; Lyon, Christopher; Alexander, Peter; Barnes, Andrew; Bebber, Daniel P.; Breeze, Tom D.; Bruce, Ann; Collins, Lisa M.; Davies, Jessica; Doherty, Bob; Ensor, Jonathan; Franco, Sofia C.; Gatto, Andrea; Hess, Tim; Lamprinopoulou, Chrysa; Liu, Lingxuan; Merkle, Magnus; Norton, Lisa ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1622-0281; Oliver, Tom; Ollerton, Jeff; Potts, Simon; Reed, Mark S.; Sutcliffe, Chloe; Withers, Paul J.A.. 2022 Food system resilience: concepts, issues, and challenges. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47 (1). 511-534. 10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744

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Abstract/Summary

Food system resilience has multiple dimensions. We draw on food system and resilience concepts and review resilience framings of different communities. We present four questions to frame food system resilience (Resilience of what? Resilience to what? Resilience from whose perspective? Resilience for how long?) and three approaches to enhancing resilience (robustness, recovery, and reorientation—the three “Rs”). We focus on enhancing resilience of food system outcomes and argue this will require food system actors adapting their activities, noting that activities do not change spontaneously but in response to a change in drivers: an opportunity or a threat. However, operationalizing resilience enhancement involves normative choices and will result in decisions having to be negotiated about trade-offs among food system outcomes for different stakeholders. New approaches to including different food system actors’ perceptions and goals are needed to build food systems that are better positioned to address challenges of the future.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744
UKCEH and CEH Sections/Science Areas:	Soils and Land Use (Science Area 2017-)
ISSN:	1543-5938
Additional Information. Not used in RCUK Gateway to Research.:	Open Access paper - full text available via Official URL link.
NORA Subject Terms:	Ecology and Environment Agriculture and Soil Science
Date made live:	13 Nov 2023 14:45 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/536226

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