Pre-Covid, few policy-makers and decision-makers had taken food security seriously. Even fewer were aware of the fragility of the food system, or how powerless local authorities would be to mitigate the effects of food insecurity for so many.
The quotation above is from section 3.1 of our Submission in response to the EFRA Commons Select Committee Call for Evidence: Covid and food supply of 22nd May 2020, accepted on 5th June.