Resilience is often defined as the ability to withstand and recover from disruption. In food systems, this means continuously supplying sufficient, accessible, acceptable food for all. Planning equitably for resilience, however, requires adequate resourcing of communities, especially those vulnerable to disruption.
Disasters are rarely “natural,” they are the product of a disruption in the context of vulnerability to that disruption, which is usually correlated with extraction of resources or systemic under-resourcing. (Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future. (2022). Food System Resilience. Retrieved December 15, 2022, from https://clf.jhsph.edu/projects/food-system-resilience; MacKinnon, D., & Derickson, K. D. (2013). From resilience to resourcefulness. Progress in Human Geography, 37(2), 253–270. https://doi.org/10.1177/0309132512454775)
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