Food system resilience: Concepts, issues and challenges

Monika  Zurek; John Ingram; Angelina Sanderson Bellamy; Conor Goold; Christopher Lyon; Peter Alexander; Andrew Barnes; Daniel P. Bebber; Tom D. Breeze; Ann Bruce; Lisa M. Collins; Jessica Davies; Bob Doherty; Jonathan Ensor; Sofia C. Franco; Andrea Gatto; Tim Hess; Chrysa Lamprinopoulou; Lingxuan Liu; Magnus Merkle; Lisa Norton; Tom Oliver; Jeff Ollerton; Simon Potts; Mark S. Reed; Chloe Sutcliffe; Paul J. A.  Withers

doi:10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744

Food system resilience: Concepts, issues and challenges

Monika Zurek^*, John Ingram, Angelina Sanderson Bellamy, Conor Goold, Christopher Lyon, Peter Alexander, Andrew Barnes, Daniel P. Bebber, Tom D. Breeze, Ann Bruce, Lisa M. Collins, Jessica Davies, Bob Doherty, Jonathan Ensor, Sofia C. Franco, Andrea Gatto, Tim Hess, Chrysa Lamprinopoulou, Lingxuan Liu, Magnus MerkleLisa Norton, Tom Oliver, Jeff Ollerton, Simon Potts, Mark S. Reed, Chloe Sutcliffe, Paul J. A. Withers

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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? to what? from who’s perspective? and over what time period?), 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, operationalising 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.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	511-534
Number of pages	28
Journal	Annual Review of Environment and Resources
Volume	47
Early online date	20 Sept 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022

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adaptation
robustness
recovery
reorientation
social-ecological systems
transformation

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Zurek, M., Ingram, J., Bellamy, A. S., Goold, C., Lyon, C., Alexander, P., Barnes, A., Bebber, D. P., Breeze, T. D., Bruce, A., Collins, L. M., Davies, J., Doherty, B., Ensor, J., Franco, S. C., Gatto, A., Hess, T., Lamprinopoulou, C., Liu, L., ... Withers, P. J. A. (2022). Food system resilience: Concepts, issues and challenges. Annual Review of Environment and Resources, 47, 511-534. https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112320-050744

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