by Rachel Loopstra | 15 September 2020 | Uncategorized
In partnership with the Food Foundation, we have published a new research brief examining rates of food insecurity among working-age adults over the COVID-19 crisis by their employment status. The report examines how rates of food insecurity compared between...
by Rachel Loopstra | 14 April 2020 | Uncategorized
Today, with the Food Foundation, we’ve published a preliminary analysis of vulnerability to food insecurity since the COVID-19 lockdown in the UK. This analysis uses data from a YouGov survey commissioned by the Food Foundation and collected over 7-9 April 2020. It...
by Rachel Loopstra | 29 November 2019 | Uncategorized
The Trussell Trust reported a 13% rise in instances of people receiving food parcels fin 2018… but how much bigger is the problem of household food insecurity in the UK? Today, The Trussell Trust released their annual count of the number of times that people received...
by Rachel Loopstra | 1 May 2019 | Uncategorized
One of the major developments for research and policy on UK household food insecurity in the past months has been the news that household food insecurity will be measured on the Family Resources Survey going forward. And no time has been wasted: with new data being...
by Rachel Loopstra | 1 March 2018 | Uncategorized
The content below presents a briefing of a recently published paper which analysed the risks of food insecurity between 2004 and 2016 in a population-based study of UK adults. * Background People who are food insecure do not have enough to eat or are uncertain they...
