Place-based preparedness in practice

Place-based food economies are an opportunity to redesign food systems, from the bottom up, in ways that distribute profit and power more fairly throughout the value chain. They are also essential if we are to create a truly defensible nation with distributed resilience and communities that can thrive in spite of an attack on the centre. But what do place-based food economies look like - how do they help towns and villages too prepare for crisis - and how can we use these different visions of food societies to reach out to under-represented groups. ffinlo Costain is joined by:* Daphne Du Cros, Coordinator and Co-Director of the Shropshire Good Food Partnership, and author of the report, Civil Food Resilience in Practice* Jenny Ekelund, the Chief Executive of Good Food Oxfordshire* Dominic Watters, a council estate single dad and PhD Researcher at the University of Southampton.This is the latest in a series of programmes drawing on conversations that took place at the UK's Conference on Food & National Security, which was co-produced by Ark and Farm Gate. Our sponsors were Howden, Savills and Saffery - and our founding patron was Marian Boswall.