Resilience of the UK Food System in a global context - Programme Coordination

近年来，政策界、科学界、商界以及更广泛的媒体对全球和英国的粮食安全产生了浓厚的兴趣。2007/08年粮食价格危机加剧了这一问题，人们对日益不可持续的饮食模式的担忧日益加剧。这些导致了全球范围内越来越多的超重和肥胖人口，而饥饿和营养不良仍然是一个问题，即使在英国也是如此。气候和相关极端天气的变化，贸易安排的变化，以及许多农业和渔业生产系统的持续不可持续，以及与饮食变化有关的进一步压力，正在增加整个粮食系统的脆弱性。这一担忧导致人们越来越意识到，需要提高我们的粮食系统对这种压力的复原力。然而，人们的兴趣也是因为认识到需要减少粮食系统活动(从生产到消费粮食)对环境以及对健康和其他社会经济参数的负面影响。这些问题与维持支撑粮食系统的充满活力、有竞争力的农业食品企业(及其相关生计)的需要背道而驰。作为1,450万GB全球粮食安全粮食系统复原力方案的一部分，一系列研究项目正在得到资助，这些项目将共同为政策制定者和其他利益攸关方提供有关他们如何提高英国粮食系统复原力的信息。要最大限度地发挥政府间金融服务复原力方案的影响，需要三个关键组成部分：(1)相互提高认识和整合个别项目，以增加彼此的价值，并通过从不同项目中获得新的见解，确立方案的知识特性，这有助于更好地了解全面的复原力建设；(2)利益攸关方参与，并将需要与政府间金融服务机构的产出相匹配；(3)在方案内和与更广泛的社区进行交流。所有这三个阶段都将取决于有效的管理和协调，这是分三个阶段提出的：规划(2016年10月至2017年初)；交付(2017年初至2021年9月)；建设遗产(2019年10月至2021年9月)。

Recent years have seen a significant interest in global and UK food security in policy, science and business circles, and in the more general press. Heightened by the 2007/08 food price crisis this is further driven by growing concerns about increasingly unsustainable dietary patterns. These have given rise to a growing number of overweight and obese people worldwide, while hunger and under-nutrition continues to be a problem, even in the UK. Changes in climate and associated weather extremes, in trade arrangements, and the continued unsustainability of many agricultural and fisheries production systems, and further stresses related to dietary changes are increasing the vulnerability of the overall food system. This concern has led to the growing awareness of the need to increase resilience of our food system to such stresses. The interest is however also driven by recognition of the need to reduce negative outcomes of the food system activities (from producing to consuming food) for the environment, and for health and other socioeconomic parameters. These issues are set against the need to maintain vibrant, competitive agri-food enterprises (and their associated livelihoods) which underpin the food system. A set of research projects is being funded as part of the £14.5 million GFS Food System Resilience Programme which, collectively, will provide policy makers and other stakeholders with information about how they can improve the resilience of the UK food system. Three key components are required to maximize the impact of the GFS Resilience Programme: (i) mutual awareness-raising and integration of individual projects to add value to each other and establish the intellectual identity of the Programme by deriving new insights from the various projects can help to gain a better understanding of overall resilience building; (ii) stakeholder engagement and matching of needs to GFS outputs; and (iii) communications within the Programme and with broader communities. All three will depend on effective management and coordination which is proposed in three phases: Planning (October 2016-early 2017); Delivery (early 2017-September 2021); Building Legacy (October 2019-September 2021).