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Introduction
The Food Energy Descent Action Plan (FEDAP) is an initiative in Vancouver that encourages long term visioning and planning toward a future that is both sustainable and resilient with regards to energy and food. As an action plan it is in the early stages of development and visioning.

Food Energy Inputs
According to research, “it requires 10 units of fossil fuel energy for each unit of food energy derived from the food.”  For many meat items, this ratio increases to range between 20-100 to 1. Food Energy Descent (FED) is a post-peak energy concept that aims to reduce dependence on fossil fuels and balance that ratio.

History of FEDAP
FEDAP was developed as a collaboration between Village Vancouver-Transition Towns (VVTT), The Vancouver Food Policy Council (VFPC) and the Museum of Vancouver. It was informed by Energy Descent Action Plans carried out by the Transition Movement that promotes community resiliency as a solution to issues of resource depletion. “Ross Moster, co-founder of Village Vancouver Transition Society, spoke of a need for groups to work together. “[The] challenges are so enormous that we really need to work together," with Village Vancouver approaching many different groups to rise to the task of community-based, local responses to the challenges of creating resilient food systems..

Resilience Principles
Diversity, modularity and tightness of feedback are key principles of resilience in food systems. Diversity is the spectrum of activities needed to maintain the central function and depth within each component. Modularity refers to the interconnected yet redundant aspects of a system and Feedback is about communicating the health of the system allowing for a fast enough response to crisis.