Research project
Improving Resilience in Supply Chains (as part of the H3 – Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People Consortium)
- Start date: 1 February 2023
- End date: 31 December 2025
- Funder: UK Research and Innovation
- Value: £600,000
- Partners and collaborators: Asda, FSA, ISEAL Alliance
- Primary investigator: Professor William Young
- Co-investigators: Prof Anne Tallontire, Dr Gulbanu Kaptan, Dr Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Dr Steffen Hirth
Improving Resilience in Supply Chains (WP6 of the H3 consortium) seeks to increase food system resilience in supply chains to economic, health and environmental shocks through collaborative research with retailers and consumers.
Impact
The project aims at transforming the consumer-retailer relationship to build a resilient and responsible food consumption system to mitigate disruptions to supply chains and enhance access to healthy diets. This will be measured by engagement and implementation of behaviour change ‘levers’ by retailers, cross-sector and international organisations and by analysis of associated environmental and health outcomes.
Publications and outputs
Hirth, S., Crastes dit Sourd, R., Kaptan, G., Tallontire, A., Young, W. (2023): “Examining food system resilience in the UK — disrupted fruit and veg supply”. In: Globalfoodleeds, Global Food and Environment Institute (GFEI), University of Leeds: https://medium.com/globalfoodleeds/examining-food-system-resilience-in-the-uk-disrupted-fruit-and-veg-supply-cea5b7659b6