Food insecurity in the US during the pandemic: What can we learn from real-time data?Food InsecurityPandemicGoogle TrendsUSCARES ActStay-at-home OrdersWe study the potential effect of the declaration of the state of emergency, the beginning and end of the stay-at-home orders, and the one-off Economic Impact Padoi...
Food InsecurityvulnerabilityCOVID-19riskfearThis research examines the intersection of social vulnerability, risk, and their impact on individual food insecurity odds during the COVID-19 pandemic. Data come from a national, post-stratification weighted sample of U.S. adults (n = 10,368). Logistic...
While the overall level of food insecurity in the United States has remained stable during the COVID-19 pandemic, certain individuals and regions have fared worse than others. This study examines state-level variables affecting individual- and household-level food insecurity during the recent two yea...
During the pandemic year of 2020, food insecurity had already ticked up in the United States. Now, the inflation crisis has intensified this issue even more. It was especially families with children that suffered during Covid-19 as school lunches disappeared and they have been hardest hit again...
Using data to forecast food insecurity helped one food bank prepare for the worst. Featured Insights Where are vulnerable populations, including those who are experiencing food insecurity, located in the United States? In this interactive map from McKinsey's Center for Societal Benefit through Health...
Food insecurityis one of the factors contributing to the increase in food poverty and malnutrition in middle and low standard of living communities, which during epidemics such as COVID-19 can affect the nutritional conditions of a large population of the world. ...
“Particularly now, as the country is poised to resume more ‘normal’ life in the coming weeks and months, we face an urgent opportunity to address both food insecurity and the broader inequities across our society in new ways.”
Combatingfood insecurityis a social and economic challenge. That much became clear during the past year, when the COVID-19 pandemic skyrocketed the number of people experiencing food insecurity in the United States. Feeding America estimates that 45 million Americans (one in s...
Using these layers of data, the model was able to project multiple scenarios for the pandemic’s effect on food insecurity in the United States. To determine supply, the model used data and analytics to analyze real-time supply data within the Feeding America network, while tracking the...
Larger household size and food insecurity were associated with lower levels of food waste (Yu and Jaenicke, 2020). Consumers have the highest levels of food waste compared with other areas of the food system; therefore, the implementation and promotion of mitigation strategies should be prioritized...