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Growing need, hidden hunger or supplier-induced demand: a quantitative examination of rising food bank use and insecure food access in the UK.

不断增长的需求、隐性饥饿或供应商引起的需求：对英国食品银行使用量增加和食品获取不安全的定量研究。

基本信息

批准号：
ES/N017358/1
负责人：
Rachel Loopstra
金额：
$ 20.21万
依托单位：
King's College London
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2016
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2016 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=ES%2FN017358%2F1
关键词：
Growing need hidden hunger supplier

项目摘要

Nearly unheard of five years ago, in 2014/15 the UK's largest network of food banks, the Trussell Trust, distributed over one million food parcels, over sixteen-times the number distributed in 2010/11. In light of rising food bank use, the issue of hunger is at the forefront of domestic political debate in the UK. Have welfare reforms caused rising hunger or are people just taking advantage of newly available free food? Are people really struggling to afford enough food or is this a problem of lack of food skills? These debates have revealed the limited evidence on the scope and causes of insecure access to food in the UK, impeding development of appropriate policy and practice responses.The need to understand this problem is pressing. Insecure access to food has profound impacts on social well-being and health, impacting child development and ability to learn, mental health, and nutritional intakes. Identifying whether the problem is increasing, what is driving its growth, and the level of vulnerability in the population are urgent concerns. There have been calls from government agencies and non-profit advocacy groups alike for systematic research on this problem.This study will fill these knowledge gaps and advance understanding of insecure access to food in the UK. Specifically, study aims are: 1. To develop a conceptual framework for understanding and evaluating food insecurity in the UK2. To quantitatively evaluate the change in food insecurity and its determinants through the recessionary and austerity periods in the UK and compare these trends with the rise in food bank use.First, I will bring together key debates and evidence on food bank use in the UK to map a conceptual framework for understanding insecure access to food and its drivers. Next, using data from publicly available datasets, including Understanding Society (an ESRC priority dataset), I will construct novel indicators of food insecurity to allow me to examine trends in insecure access to food through recession and implementation of welfare reform. These will then be compared with trends in food bank use, enabling me to examine the extent to which (1) there is evidence rising food bank use has exceeded rising insecure access to food, suggesting 'supplier-induced demand', or (2) there is evidence that trends in food bank use are not capturing the extent to which food insecurity has risen, suggesting there is 'hidden hunger'. Lastly, I will use data from these surveys to understand what household factors are associated with vulnerability to food insecurity, such as unemployment, loss of wages, and experience of welfare reforms.Given the importance of this work for resolving public and policy debate about rising food bank use, key study aims also include having impact in policy, practice, and academic communities in the UK. Specifically, the impact aims of this project include: 3. To contribute to a better informed public sector, civil society, and public by answering questions about the extent to which food insecurity has increased and its causes.4. To advance policies and practice recommendations aimed at addressing food insecurity.5. To enhance theoretical understanding of what food insecurity is, how it can be measured and monitored, and why it is important to do so.6. To build a collaborative research network to take forward monitoring and research on food insecurity.This project builds upon established relationships with food aid providers, policymakers, advocacy groups, and researchers, who include the Food Foundation, Oxfam GB, the Trussell Trust, and members of the Feeding Britain network. Knowledge exchange activities include establishing a stakeholder advisory group, a one-day conference for food aid providers, a policymaker roundtable, and a collaborative two-day research conference for researchers and stakeholders to share research findings and set a research agenda for food insecurity in the UK going forward.

五年前几乎闻所未闻，在2014/15年，英国最大的食品银行网络Trussell Trust分发了超过100万个食品包裹，是2010/11年分发数量的16倍。鉴于食品银行的使用量不断增加，饥饿问题已成为英国国内政治辩论的前沿。福利改革是否导致了饥饿人口的增加，或者人们只是在利用新出现的免费食物？人们真的在为买得起足够的食物而苦苦挣扎吗？还是这是缺乏食物技能的问题？这些辩论揭示了有限的证据的范围和不安全的获取食物的原因在英国，阻碍了适当的政策和实践的反应的发展。获得食物的机会不安全对社会福祉和健康产生深远影响，影响儿童的发育和学习能力、心理健康和营养摄入。查明这一问题是否在加剧，是什么推动了这一问题的加剧，以及人口的脆弱程度，是迫切需要关注的问题。政府机构和非营利倡导团体都呼吁对这一问题进行系统研究。这项研究将填补这些知识空白，并促进对英国食品不安全的理解。具体而言，研究目的是：1。制定一个概念框架，以了解和评估英国的粮食不安全2。为了定量评估英国经济衰退和财政紧缩时期粮食不安全及其决定因素的变化，并将这些趋势与粮食银行使用率的上升进行比较，首先，我将汇集英国粮食银行使用的关键辩论和证据，以绘制一个概念框架，用于理解粮食不安全及其驱动因素。接下来，我将使用来自公开数据集的数据，包括理解社会（ESRC优先数据集），构建新的粮食不安全指标，以检查通过经济衰退和实施福利改革获得粮食不安全的趋势。然后将这些与食物银行使用的趋势进行比较，使我能够检查（1）有证据表明食物银行使用的增加超过了获得食物的不安全程度，表明“制造商引起的需求”，或者（2）有证据表明食物银行使用的趋势没有反映食物不安全程度的上升，表明存在“隐藏的饥饿”。最后，我将使用这些调查的数据来了解哪些家庭因素与粮食不安全的脆弱性有关，例如失业，工资损失和福利改革的经验。鉴于这项工作对于解决有关食品银行使用率上升的公共和政策辩论的重要性，主要研究目标还包括在英国的政策，实践和学术界产生影响。具体而言，该项目的影响目标包括：3。通过回答有关粮食不安全加剧程度及其原因的问题，促进公共部门、民间社会和公众更好地了解情况。推进旨在解决粮食不安全问题的政策和实践建议。加强对什么是粮食不安全、如何衡量和监测以及为什么这样做很重要的理论理解。建立一个合作研究网络，以推进对粮食不安全的监测和研究。该项目建立在与粮食援助提供者、政策制定者、倡导团体和研究人员建立的关系基础上，这些研究人员包括粮食基金会、英国乐施会、Trussell信托基金和喂养英国网络的成员。知识交流活动包括建立利益相关者咨询小组，为期一天的粮食援助提供者会议，决策者圆桌会议，以及为期两天的研究人员和利益相关者合作研究会议，以分享研究成果，并为英国未来的粮食不安全制定研究议程。