Join Abi from Propagate for an interactive workshop looking at Civil Food Resilience - and how we in the Glenkens and other communities can make local plans to address shocks that affect our food system.

We often overlook food as an essential component of resilience planning since it has become increasingly commodified. It's a basic need, yet we hardly recognise it as such. Brexit and Covid both demonstrated how quickly shocks to the systems affected food available in shops and supermarkets, but we've been quick to forget.

Since World War ll, the UK has experienced what to previous generations would have been a revolution in food. Diets, supply and tastes have changed and become more used to more plentiful, diverse and a-seasonal food. Where we buy from and what is purchased has changed. So have tastes and expectations.

At the same time, access to food has become more dependent on fewer, larger suppliers, while still being subject to the vagaries of unequal incomes and living standards.

Civil Food Resilience means the capacity of people in their daily lives to be more aware of risks to food security and supply, more skilled in reducing unnecessary risks, and more prepared to act with others to ensure all society is well fed in and after crises. It requires a process of learning, capacity-building and preparation.

Tickets free but please book using this link.