Civil Eats recently highlighted how the North Coast Emergency Food System Partnership is bridging disaster response and local food systems—ensuring food from nearby farms reaches vulnerable communities after disasters like fires, floods, and earthquakes.

In this context, resilience scholar Daniel Aldrich underscores a critical insight: beyond government and market mechanisms, community must serve as the third foundational pillar in emergency response. His metaphor of a “triangle” reframes how we think about disaster infrastructure, placing local relationships and knowledge alongside institutional systems.

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