Following our call, Amber Wheeler from The Food Foundation helpfully shares the following:

“The way [your research question] ‘how can an organisation co-create the conditions required for food security with a local community?’ is framed, suggests that the organisation is separate from the local community.

It might help perhaps if it is framed as ‘in their community’. I have found that ‘We are all in this together’ is a more realistic and motivating stance.”

So the research question would become ‘How can an organisation co-create the conditions required for food security in their local community?’