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Webinar: Civil Food Resilience in practice

WebinarWednesday 13 May 2026 • 10:0011:30

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.

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About the webinar

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.

Webinar notes, links and more

Civil Food Resilience in Practice Report

Speakers

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

  • Slides included in main presentation

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


Sustainable Food Places: Network bringing together over 100 local food partnerships.

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