@article {30104,
	title = {A systems approach to navigating food security during COVID-19Gaps, opportunities, and policy supports},
	journal = {Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development},
	volume = {10},
	year = {2021},
	pages = {211-223},
	abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted a series of concatenating problems in the global production and distribution of food. Trade barriers, seasonal labor shortages, food loss and waste, and food safety concerns combine to engender vulnerabili-ties in food systems. A variety of actors{\textemdash}from academics to policy-makers, community organizers, farmers, and homesteaders{\textemdash}are considering the undertaking of creating more resilient food sys-tems. Conventional approaches include fine-tuning existing value chains, consolidating national food distribution systems and bolstering inventory and storage. This paper highlights three alternative strategies for securing a more resilient food system, namely: (i.) leveraging underutilized, often urban, spaces for food production; (ii.) rethinking food waste as a resource; and (iii.) constructing produc-tion-distribution-waste networks, as opposed to chains. Various food systems actors have pursued these strategies for decades. Yet, we argue that the COVID-19 pandemic forces us to urgently con-sider such novel assemblages of actors, institutions, and technologies as key levers in achieving longer term food system resilience. These strategies are often centered around princi-ples of redistribution and reciprocity, and focus on smaller scales, from individual households to com-munities. We high-light examples that have emerged in the spring-summer of 2020 of household and community efforts to reconstruct a more resilient food system. We also undertake a policy analysis to sketch how government supports can facilitate the emergence of these efforts and mobilization beyond the immediate confines of the pandemic.},
	url = {https://www.foodsystemsjournal.org/index.php/fsj/article/view/962},
	author = {Glaros, A. and Alexander, C. and Koberinski ,J. and Scott, S. and Quilley, S. and Si, Z.}
}
