Between market and alternatives: household food resilience in uncertain times (FoodRes)

Environmental degradation, the pandemic and growing food prices highlighted the vulnerability and unsustainability of the current food system. Its resilience can be enhanced by developing closer links with informal sources of food. The recent research shifted the interpretation of food self-provisioning (FSP) from a coping strategy to a sought-after alternative with a transformation enabling potential. However, the research on the conventional (market) and informal ways of food provisioning has developed as separate domains. The project extends the research on food alternatives to relations between both systems, looking at both from the perspective of resilience. The aim is to find out about the volume and valorisations of food brought to
households from a diversity of sources (purchase, FSP, sharing). Key sources of data are focus groups, interviews and survey. The results, offering novel understanding of households’ food resilience, will shape international debates about social resilience and the relationship between conventional and informal food systems.