%X The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in food shortages, lockdowns, and restrictions on movement, which have completely reshaped the food system and the interaction between people and their food environment. The pandemic has highlighted that while states are struggling to handle all the impacts of the pandemic, civil society organizations have taken on an important role in filling the gaps and mitigating the shocks from the pandemic. Actions taken by civil society and the market have shown that the existing welfare structures created by states are unable to handle the impact of a pandemic when it comes to critical tasks such as food supply for vulnerable groups. %L discovery10163159 %A Catalina Turcu %A Johan Nordensvärd %A Bingqin Li %A Qian Jiwei %A Youn-hwan Byun %A Carl-Johan Sommar %A Martina Rotola %A Yiran Li %I Food for Urban Lives and Localities (FULL) %O This version is the version of record. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. %T What can we learn from civil society responses to COVID-19 food supply? %K Food, urban, community, place, COVID-19 %D 2022