The 2008 food crisis has reinvigorated food security as a key concept for agricultural and food policies at national and international level. Initially designed for international development policies, food security is now embraced by developed countries themselves, as scarcity, shortages and prices spikes become key features of their own environment. Taking the case of UK, this contribution addresses the growing importance of food security as an attempt to globally reshape food systems. This reshaping leads actors involved to rethink the whole set of constraints but also to reprioritize the relevant features of food systems. Not only does the new food security agenda help re-legitimating productionism, but it also conveys ways of articulating production issues with market, environment and nutrition issues. As a consequence, food security can be analyzed as a tool to re-rank competing agrifood priorities.
