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Assessing resilience across the food system
Food Science and Technology ( IF 2.602 ) Pub Date : 2021-03-18 , DOI: 10.1002/fsat.3501_14.x

Maddy Diment, Saher Hasnain and John Ingram of the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford, describe a study to evaluate resilience strategies for the food systems of eight different countries by surveying the opinions of food system actors and identifying approaches to resilience highlighted in the literature.

Our food systems are increasingly complex, interconnected and subject to a wide array of shocks and stresses. Shocks include food safety scares, such as the 2017 Fipronil eggs contamination incident in Europe, geo‐political tensions between major importing/exporting nations for agricultural commodities and extreme weather events. Stresses come from natural resource degradation and changes in demography and climate.

The impacts of shocks and stresses might be severe or minor, depending on which parts of the food system are affected and to what extent, and are influenced by the responses of the affected actors and the outcomes of their activities. Not all food system actors will experience a shock or stress in the same way or to the same degree – some may benefit, while others may struggle. Nonetheless, the unprecedented systemic shock from COVID‐19 has accelerated further scientific, policy and societal interest in the need to enhance food system resilience. While increasing food system sustainability in relation to social, economic and environmental parameters remain important, there is an increasing awareness across the sector that recognising and responding to shocks and stresses is key in managing future food system activities and hence outcomes. The food system that supports our economies and brings food to our plates needs to be more resilient and practitioners and policy makers in the UK and beyond are working to establish how this can be achieved.

The unprecedented systemic shock from COVID‐19 has accelerated further scientific, policy and societal interest in the need to enhance food system resilience.

中文翻译：

评估整个食品系统的应变能力

牛津大学环境变化研究所的Maddy Diment，Saher Hasnain和John Ingram描述了一项研究，旨在通过调查粮食系统参与者的意见并确定文献中强调的抵御能力的方法来评估八个不同国家粮食系统的抵御能力策略。。

我们的食品系统越来越复杂，相互联系，并受到各种各样的冲击和压力。冲击包括食品安全恐慌，例如2017年欧洲发生的Fipronil鸡蛋污染事件，主要进出口国之间农产品贸易的地缘政治紧张局势和极端天气事件。压力来自自然资源的退化以及人口和气候的变化。

冲击和压力的影响可能是严重的，也可能是轻微的，具体取决于食物系统的哪个部分受到影响以及受影响的程度，并受受影响参与者的反应及其活动结果的影响。并非所有的食品体系参与者都会以相同的方式或程度遭受冲击或压力-有些人可能会受益，而另一些人可能会挣扎。尽管如此，COVID-19带来的前所未有的系统性冲击进一步加速了科学，政策和社会对提高食品系统适应能力的兴趣。尽管在社会，经济和环境参数方面提高粮食系统的可持续性仍然很重要，但整个部门的认识不断提高，认识到并应对冲击和压力对管理未来粮食系统的活动和结果至关重要。