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The emergency food safety net is reinventing itself – in REAL TIME.  Amid closures of nutrition support sites like schools, rising unemployment, cutbacks on public transit systems, record level demand, supply chain issues, and other massive challenges to food access and distribution, the sector is rethinking everything and rapidly shifting gears, with local actors leading the way. What are the most promising innovations in emergency food access and distribution, and what can our region do to help promote, build and sustain them, both during the pandemic and beyond?