Resilience of food systems is key to ensuring food security through crisis. The COVID-19 pandemic presents an unprecedented shock that reveals varying levels of resilience of increasingly interconnected food systems across the globe. We contribute to the ongoing debate about whether increased connectivity reduces or enhances resilience in the context of rural Pacific food systems, while examining how communities have adapted to the global shocks associated with the pandemic to ensure food security. We conducted 609 interviews across 199 coastal villages from May to October 2020 in Federated States of Micronesia, Fiji, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Tuvalu to understand community-level impacts and adaptations during the first 5–10 months of the COVID-19 crisis. We found that local food production practices and food sharing conferred resilience, and that imported foods could aid or inhibit resilience. Communities in countries more reliant on imports were almost twice as likely to report food insecurity compared to those least reliant. However, in places dealing with a concurrent cyclone, local food systems were impaired, and imported foods proved critical. Our findings suggest that policy in the Pacific should bolster sustainable local food production and practices. Pacific states should avoid becoming overly reliant on food imports, while having measures in place to support food security after disasters, supplementing locally produced and preserved foods with imported foods when necessary. Developing policies that promote resilient food systems can help prepare communities for future shocks, including those anticipated with climate change.

粮食系统的韧性是确保粮食安全渡过危机的关键。COVID-19 大流行带来了前所未有的冲击，揭示了全球日益相互关联的粮食系统不同程度的恢复力。我们为正在进行的关于增加连通性是否会降低或增强太平洋农村粮食系统的复原力的辩论做出贡献，同时研究社区如何适应与大流行相关的全球冲击以确保粮食安全。2020 年 5 月至 2020 年 10 月，我们对密克罗尼西亚联邦、斐济、帕劳、巴布亚新几内亚、所罗门群岛、汤加和图瓦卢的 199 个沿海村庄进行了 609 次采访，以了解前 5-10 个月社区层面的影响和适应情况COVID-19 危机。我们发现当地的粮食生产实践和食物分享赋予了韧性，而进口食品可以帮助或抑制韧性。与最不依赖进口的国家相比，更依赖进口的国家的社区报告粮食不安全的可能性几乎是其两倍。然而，在同时发生飓风的地方，当地粮食系统受损，事实证明进口食品至关重要。我们的研究结果表明，太平洋地区的政策应该支持可持续的当地粮食生产和做法。太平洋国家应避免过度依赖粮食进口，同时采取措施支持灾后粮食安全，必要时用进口食品补充当地生产和保存的食品。制定促进有弹性的粮食系统的政策可以帮助社区为未来的冲击做好准备，