Reports & Briefings

The third in a series of briefs based on the findings of the recently published comparative book The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, this brief sets out findings relating the role of surplus food redistribution in food charity systems across Europe. The brief draws on...

The second in a series of briefs based on the findings of the recently published comparative book The Rise of Food Charity in Europe, this brief sets out findings relating to what, if any, relationship there is between the changing nature of welfare states across...

This research brief is the first in a series which set out key findings from the recently published book The Rise of Food Charity in Europe. This first brief sets out what food charity looks like across Europe. Drawing on data from seven case study countries of...

On the 11th April 2020, the Food Foundation reported the results of their commissioned YouGov survey which found that more than three million people reported going hungry in the first three weeks of the UK’s COVID-19 lockdown. This report explores what is driving...

People who are food insecure do not have enough to eat or are uncertain they will always have enough to eat because of a lack of financial resources. Some food insecure people use food banks but many do not. Most of the studies of hunger in the UK in recent years have...

The case for a standard measure of household food insecurity in the UK In 2014 in the United States of America, the wealthiest country in the world, 14% of households, comprising 48.1 million people, were ‘food insecure’, meaning they had difficulty meeting basic food...

We currently have no way of knowing how many people in the UK are too poor to eat. The UK government currently does not measure household food insecurity, also called food poverty. Food insecurity is when an individual or household has insufficient or insecure access...

The rapid rise in demand for food aid, as reflected in routine data collected on food bank usage in the Trussell Trust Foodbank Network, has raised questions about how many people face insecure access to food and experience periods of going without food.

Being food secure means being sure of your ability to secure, at all times, enough food of sufficient quality and quantity, to allow you to stay healthy and participate in society. Food insecurity is defined as: Limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally...