UK government advises strengthening food supply chain resilience to shocks

The National Audit Office has found that the government has not done enough to prepare households and businesses for food shortages, even as it warns that risks to the supply chain are becoming more likely and more severe.

Defra has expanded its Food Supply Chain Resilience team and increased its focus on planning for catastrophic events that would seriously disrupt food supply, but the watchdog concluded that the department has done too little in recent years to push households, communities and industry to prepare.

reported to be preparing a campaign