Good Food Governance
Disaster Risk Planning has been awarded a small grant that has enabled the team (including both UWE and the University of Bristol as well as Bristol Food Network and Feeding Bristol) to complete an initial literature review of the existing reports on the Covid-19 lockdown response in Bristol, and an overview of Disaster Risk Reduction and Management.
We hope to bring in more funding soon so we can complete more interviews, capturing information not covered within existing literature. We also plan to run workshops discussing future preparations with key operators from the lockdown efforts.
Louise Delmage, Project Coordinator of Bristol Good Food 2030, has spoken about the project at the Future Food Symposium and Landworkers’ Alliance Land Skills Fair.
We are pleased to see that Professor Tim Lang has begun a project to convince the National Preparedness Commission to include food in their considerations.
Based on the recommendation from the Avon and Somerset Local Resilience Forum, we recommend that every household with the means to do so, has at least 2 weeks of food stored at all times. If everyone who is able does this, it will reduce the impact of the next crisis substantially, allowing emergency provision to focus on the most vulnerable households.
Food System Data is improving as we get close to finishing all the measurable indicators for the 2024 Action Plans.
