Feeding People in a Crisis: The UK Food System and the Covid-19 Pandemic

by Michael Winter, Timothy Wilkinson, Steven Guilbert

Available open access digitally under CC-BY-NC-ND licence.

'Panic buying' at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic generated enduring media images of empty supermarket shelves and calls for food rationing. The fragility of the Just-in-Time food system was seemingly exposed yet, as the pandemic progressed in the UK, there were remarkably few food shortages. This book reveals the changing patterns of food provision in the UK during that period,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1529247284
• ISBN13: 9781529247282
• Release Date: January 2025
• Publisher: Bristol University Press
• Length: 192 Pages