Catch up on the Sustainable Food Places session on Civil Food Resilience and find out how local food partnerships across the UK are stepping up to the challenge of strengthening an increasingly fragile food system and preparing for emergencies, centring community assets and knowledge.
Webinar 13 May 2026 10:00 11:30
The webinar featured Sustainable Food Places food partnerships working across a range of geographies and demographic contexts, from urban centres to rural communities and economies, alongside keynote speakers at the forefront of research and living experience of disparity affecting our communities.
The panel of speakers was followed by a lively and insightful audience Q&A and panel discussion, covering topics including communicating the urgency of the work, ensuring lived and living experience shapes policy and practice, and enabling capacity for long-term planning and resilience alongside urgent work addressing food insecurity in the present moment.
Sarah Bridle, Professor of Food, Climate and Society at the University of York
Dominic Watters, PhD researcher, speaker and founder of Food is Care CIC
Vera Zakharov, Sustainable Food Places Local Action Coordinator, Sustain
Daphne Du Cros, Director of Shropshire Good Food Partnership
Ian Smith, Founder, Food Plymouth and Leo Leong, Founder, Unlocking Abilities Together
Chloe Masefield, Partnership Coordinator, Bwyd Powys Food
Q&A chaired by Chloe Smee, Sustainable Food Places Programme Manager, Soil Association
Published 13 May 2026
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