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Food Charity: Solidarity, vulnerability and the impact of Covid-19
The global Covid-19 pandemic is affecting countries across the world. In this context, along with the enormous health challenges it brings, we are also facing significant economic and social impacts. Early indications are that crisis has already had a dramatic impact...
The COVID-19 crisis is worsening food insecurity in the UK
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...
Our hopes for ENUF
“Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much”. Helen Keller The growing body of research on food poverty in the UK is, I suspect, underpinned by both horror at its existence and an appetite for change. Some researchers seek to represent the experiences of...
How big is the problem of food insecurity in the UK?
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...
Food insecurity measurement on the Family Resources Survey
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...
What gets measured gets mended
This is a blog post by Courtney Scott of the Food Foundation - reproduced here with permission. TODAY in parliament, Emma Lewell-Buck MP will be giving a first reading of the Ten Minute Rule Bill on the measurement of household food insecurity. The Bill is asking the...
Vulnerability to food insecurity in the UK 2004-2016
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...
Welcome to ENUF
As the body of research on household food insecurity in the UK grows, we’ve identified a need for a resource that provides up-to-date facts and figures on this critical issue. As interventions are being designed and policy asks are being formulated, it is critical that research informs this work.