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Abstract
Disasters such as COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war are drawing attention to the provisioning of food during crises. The main concern has been quickly establishing a stable food supply. However, climate change and public health concerns are shifting attention to the critical gap in identifying the minimal considerations that would adequately address ecological disaster food provisioning. A meta-ethnography of 16 disasters in 12 different countries is employed to identify the activities and their supporting strategies that provide benefits to existing actors within food networks. Analysis suggests that public health, resilience, and sustainability stand to benefit from the identified practices. A conceptual model of an ecologically embedded minimum viable ecosystem for disaster food provisioning is proposed. Exemplar applications are provided for Tigray, Gaza, and Ukraine. The findings may be applied to disaster settings for the development of policy for culturally sensitive, equitable, and nutritious food provisioning strategies.
Highlights
This research investigates ecologically embedded disaster food provisioning for improved regional sustainability, resilience, and public health
Ecological safety, and agri-food supply chain viability under conditions of war is beginning to be contemplated in terms of a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system (Kopishynska et al 2023), there is a lack of a conceptual understanding for operationalization
We argue that ecological embeddedness remains an afterthought when it comes to crisis food provisioning (e.g., Cattivelli and Rusciano 2020) despite global concerns related to public health and environmental issues
Summary
This research investigates ecologically embedded disaster food provisioning for improved regional sustainability, resilience, and public health. Ecological safety, and agri-food supply chain viability under conditions of war is beginning to be contemplated in terms of a cloud-based enterprise resource planning system (Kopishynska et al 2023), there is a lack of a conceptual understanding for operationalization. This research conceptualizes MVE in the context of foraging theory to extend its application to food supply chains and provide a novel perspective on disaster food provisioning. A meta-ethnographic synthesis is conducted to inform conceptual understanding of food provisioning (Britten et al 2002; Sattar et al 2021) This approach is adopted because meta-ethnographies offer the potential for theoretical innovation (Urrieta and Noblit 2018). The case-studybased meta-ethnography collects rare and globally diverse instances of disaster food insecurity impacts at community level to reveal effective strategies for equitable food provisioning that support sustainability and resilience.
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