Policy Brief December 2022 Food for Urban Lives and Locality (FULL) / Johan Nordensvärd, Carl-Johan Sommar, Catalina Turcu, Martina Rotolo, Li Bingqin, Li Yiran, Jiwei Qian, Byun Youn-Hwan.

• What can we learn from civil society responsesto COVID-19 food supply? The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in food shortages, lockdowns, and restrictions onmovement, which have completely reshaped the food system and the interaction betweenpeople and their food environment. The pandemic has highlighted that while states arestruggling to handle all the impacts of the pandemic, civil society organizations have taken onan important role in filling the gaps and mitigating the shocks from the pandemic. Actionstaken by civil society and the market have shown that the existing welfare structures createdby states are unable to handle the impact of a pandemic when it comes to critical tasks suchas food supply for vulnerable groups. 

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