If disaster strikes, will there be enough to eat? Britain should be prepared – but it isn’t | Tim Lang

Reviewing the state of UK civil food resilience for a National Preparedness Commission report.

I found that there is, in fact, scant preparedness going on and little attention given to involving the public.

The official government resilience framework has three sound principles: first , take a “whole of society” approach; second , prevention is better than the cure; and third , build a shared understanding of the risks.

For individuals juggling financial demands, food is the flexible item in their budget.

Tim Lang is professor emeritus of food policy at the Centre for Food Policy , City St George’s, University of London .

The Fair Food Futures Project has been asking communities in Bradford and Tower Hamlets to assess what emergency food systems they have by mapping community food assets’.