Researchers contribute to Parliamentary reception on Resilient Food Systems
Academics from Leeds University Business School contributed to a Parliamentary event on building resilient food systems.
Dr Gülbanu Kaptan, Associate Professor in Behaviour Decision Making in the Management and Organisations Department, and Dr Romain Crastes dit Sourd, Associate Professor in the Analytics, Technology and Operations Department, alongside colleagues from the School of Earth, Environment and Sustainability, were invited to attend the “Science for Resilient Food Systems” Parliamentary Reception, hosted by Daniel Zeichner MP at the House of Commons on 21 April 2026.
The event was held on behalf of the UKRI Strategic Priorities Fund project - “Healthy Soil, Healthy Food, Healthy People.”
William Young, Gulbanu Kaptan, Elizabeth Morgan, Anne Tallontire, Steffen Hirth and Romain Crastes Dit Sourd (L-R).
At the reception, the team shared key findings on achieving long-term food supply chain resilience, highlighting that current food systems offer only short-term resilience and remain structurally unstable and unequal. Their contribution addresses an important evidence gap in policy debates, emphasising the need for novel and interdisciplinary insights into how long-term resilience can be achieved beyond short-term or siloed policy approaches.
