Nordensvärd, Johan;
Rotolo, Martina;
Sommar, Carl-Johan;
Li, Yiran;
Turcu, Catalina;
Li, Bingqin;
Byun, Young-hwan;
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(2023)
Technological and social adaptation to COVID-19 :
Food for Vulnerable Urban
Groups in Six Global Cities.
(Linköping studies in Social Policy
2022:1
).
Linköping University Electronic Press: Linköping, Sweden.
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Abstract
This report outlines the results from the research project Food for Urban Life and Localities (FULL) funded by Formas (2020-02864). The research set out to learn how COVID-19 response strategies in six cities (Stockholm, London, Wuhan, Singapore, Sydney, and Seoul) have facilitated access to food for vulnerable groups and how new food supply solutions have emerged through social and technological innovations. This report presents the case of each city in turn and pauses on the role of community-based organisations, ad- hoc community initiatives and municipalities during the COVID-19 pandemic. The report provides a detailed discussion of local or community-level responses in cities that aim to provide access to food through social and/or technological innovations. The lessons learned are important for the Swedish context in the case of similar events that challenge local access to food. The research collected data through qualitative and quantitative methods, and also made use of the breadth of online data sources in response to COVID-19 restrictions on free movement and travelling. The overall finding is that in situations such as the COVID-19 pandemic, local access to food is extremely challenging and cannot be addressed by existing welfare or state arrangements only;civil society organisations and voluntary community organizations (VCOs) step in to fill the gap in public provision; and the stricter the lockdown, the more dependent on civil society response urban areas and communities were.
| Type: | Report |
|---|---|
| Title: | Technological and social adaptation to COVID-19 : Food for Vulnerable Urban Groups in Six Global Cities |
| ISBN-13: | 978-91-8075-057-8 |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.3384/9789180750578 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.3384/9789180750578 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/deed.en. |
| Keywords: | Cities; food; vulnerability; COVID-19; civil society; public policy |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > The Bartlett School of Planning |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10186575 |
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