Barker, M. and Russell, J. orcid.org/0000-0002-4174-7210 (2020) Feeding the food insecure in Britain : learning from the 2020 COVID-19 crisis. Food Security, 12 (4). pp. 865-870. ISSN 1876-4517
Abstract
The lockdown in Britain has rendered a large proportion of the population economically vulnerable and has at least quadrupled demand for emergency food relief. This paper looks critically at response to the crisis from the government and the voluntary sector with respect to provision of emergency food. In doing so, it has exposed gaps in understanding of the vagaries of the food supply for certain population groups and systemic weaknesses in the current system of emergency food aid. We make recommendations for healthier governmental capacity to react to a food security crisis, better relationships between the government and the voluntary sector, and further research into the dietary constraints of the precariate. Importantly, the social system needs to be responsive to short-term changes in people’s income if people are not to fall into food insecurity.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2020 The Authors. This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
Keywords: | COVID-19; Precarious working; Food banks; Charitable food; Food poverty; Food aid |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Professional Services (Sheffield) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 03 Aug 2020 13:16 |
Last Modified: | 21 Jan 2022 11:02 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer Nature |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/s12571-020-01080-5 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:163981 |
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