Feeding People in a Crisis

Michael Winter OBE is Glanely Professor of Agricultural Change at the University of Exeter and Chair of Devon’s Local Nature Partnership.Steven Guilbert is Research Impact Fellow at the University of Exeter. Timothy Wilkinson is Research Fellow at the Centre for Rural Policy Research, University of Exeter Matt Lobley is Professor of Rural Resource Management and Director of the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter. Catherine Broomfield is Research Associate at the Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter.

• 1. Introduction2. The UK Food System3. Keeping the Supermarket Shelves Stocked4. The Role of Alternative Food Networks: Plugging Gaps or Building Back Better?5. From Eating Out to Eating In6. Food Justice: The Poverty and Health Dimension7. What Happened to Farmers and Fishers?8. Where Next for the British Food System?

“Crises help expose and unsettle previously taken-for-granted assumptions, and this book explains what the COVID-19 pandemic revealed about how the UK food system functions. A must-read for agri-food scholars.” Neil Ward, University of East Anglia