Stockpiling as resilience: Defending and contextualising extra food procurement during lockdown

Benker, Beth

Abstract

During the UK‘s lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, both food shortages and stockpiling were well-publicised events. The UK's food system has struggled and lockdown shortages are part of an ongoing trend of anxiety around the food system. Analysis of 19 interviews with people responsible for food procurement within households reveals that while shortages were often experienced for a number of weeks, stockpiling did not take the form of buying large quantities. Instead, modest extra procurement is a more appropriate description of food procurement during lockdown. This article maps six resilience strategies utilised by households in the UK during lockdown, of which extra procurement was just one.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Sep 27, 2020
• Online Publication Date: Oct 7, 2020
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2021
• Deposit Date: May 24, 2021
• Journal: Appetite
• Print ISSN: 0195-6663
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 156
• Pages: 104981
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.appet.2020.104981
• Keywords: Nutrition and Dietetics; General Psychology
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/6762720