Need to address the local scale
The scale matters. The resilience of Agriculture and Food systems looks very different if we compare household, community or national level, as the socio-economic and political and cultural-historic realities are very different according to the perspective taken.
I miss the local level, as being situated between the community and national level. This local scale, including local governments (communes), indigenous peoples and cultures, local authorities and leadership, concrete agroecological settings, knowledgeable private sector knowing the concrete business opportunities, local markets and its (untapped) potentials, infrastructures and particularly concrete agency with concrete and interlinked actors (both individual and collective) could be the most relevant scale if it comes to resilience building (but also when dealing with developing potentials and increasing system performance related to food systems).
This missing perspective looking at the local scale as defined here (between communities and national scale) is one of the weakest points in the current global food system. Whenever shocks happen, they are always local (and only sometimes national and beyond). The lack of local perspectives, plans and budgets are may be the biggest gap in the current portfolio of country adaptation / resilience policies.
I plead to reconsider the local level understood as including communities, local governments and landscape-agroecological context including local culture, history and agency.
Gian Linard Nicolay