Resilient food supply chains

Access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food gives people food security, and helps them maintain healthy, active lives.

Access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food gives people food security, and helps them maintain healthy, active lives.

On a global scale, achieving food security must also promote sustainable development. The achievement of resilient global food security is at the heart of economic growth, resource demand, environmental sustainability and public health.

Our goal is to adapt food supply systems to make them more resilient in order to deliver better nutrition while improving public health, reducing environmental impacts and sustaining economies.

The challenge is to integrate our understanding of food supply networks from food production and supply through to consumption and nutrition, and to identify and apply innovative practices to adapt the UK’s food supply network.

This theme is led by Prof Peter Martin in Manchester.