There's some interesting fact, links, and national comparisons in this Guardian opinion piece (by one of the authors of "Just in Case: 7 steps to narrow the UK civil food resilience gap") on ensuring some kind of food storage, supply or access in a time of crisis or shock. Including a mention of changes in Sweden:
Last year Sweden produced a major reorientation of its food policy and intends to build more diversity into its food system, including creating dispersed national food stores. Sweden is also passing new legislation making it a responsibility of mayors to ensure that all are fed in a crisis.
...and also of information for people in Switzerland (where the national food reserves are proposed to increase from 4 months to 12):
The Swiss Federal Office for Civil Protection reminds its citizens that they can go without food for 30 days but without water for only three. The truth is that we UK citizens live in a fantasy world – a legacy of the British empire – that someone far away will always feed us.
On a micro-supply scale, that's made me figure out how long my food and water supplies would last (with, and without, electricity and/or gas and/or water supply).
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