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-...
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 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...
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 se...
Between 2005 and 2020, the number of children facing simultaneous water and food insecurity in the United States more than doubled. Additionally, Black and Hispanic children were several times more likely than white children to experience food and water
The food security survey asked one adult respondent per household questions about experiences and behaviors that indicate food insecurity, such as being unable to afford balanced meals, cutting the size of meals because of too little money for food, or being hungry because of too little money...
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. ...
The complex causality structure in the US food environment reveals that policy variables cannot be treated independently of their rich causal structure. Government agencies responsible for designing policies for food assistance, poverty alleviation, combating food insecurity and obesity need to consider the...
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...
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