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The paper presents the results of a project to co-design and develop recommendations for food emergency planning that also promote longer term and deeper change for food and health justice, while fostering resilient communities in places in England. It sets out the conceptual and practical findings underpinning the resulting ‘call to action’ for planning beyond emergency food. This arises from a collaboration around international research on health, justice and resilience within place-based communities where, via an innovative ‘policy-impact’ project, new policy is being co-produced. The co-production involves knowledge exchange stimulated by combined findings from complementary studies, and aims for policy that goes beyond emergency modes of planning for food in places. It brings together two major international ESRC-funded studies, which looked at adaptations of young people in monetary-poor households for surviving and recovering from COVID-19 (Panex-Youth, in South Africa, Brazil, UK) and activism that can disrupt patterns of injustice (Building Back Better from Below, in Brazil, Canada, UK), with two aligned studies in London (Food Insecurity & Civil Society) and Toronto (Food Sovereignty). Critically, insights from policy stakeholders in England (Birmingham, Brighton, and London) are integrated, through a series of workshops, which enable people to deliberate, deepen, and draw out implications of findings around socio-economic inequalities, health and food so as to develop local and national recommendations together.
| Keywords | food security policy; co-production; emergency food planning |
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| Best Congress Paper Award | No |
