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Food Security. Food Security Risk Index. http://maplecroft.com/about/news/food_security.html. History of the Food Security Measurement Project. Definitions of Food Security Before 2006. Nutrition Security. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Food Security
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Extreme Risk –red
High risk – orange
Medium risk – yellow
Low risk – green
No Data – gray http://maplecroft.com/about/news/food_security.html
Food Security Risk Index
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History of the Food Security Measurement Project1990 NMRR Act recommends a standardized mechanism for defining
and obtaining data on the prevalence of food insecurity
1992 USDA staff review existing research
1994 USDA and DHHS sponsor conference on Food Security Measurement and Research
1995 Current Population Survey of US Census Bureau includes Food Security Measurement scale
1996-present Annual Surveys, ERS assumes leadership, others encouraged to use FSMS
2006 Release of IOM report, “Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure.”
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Definitions of Food Security Before 2006
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Nutrition Security
• The provision of an environment that encourages and motivates society to make food choices consistent with short and long term good health.
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Food Security
• Assess by all people at all times to sufficient food for an active and healthy life. Food security includes at a minimum: the ready availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods, and an assured ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways.
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Household Food Insecurity
• A household had limited or uncertain availability of food, or limited or uncertain ability to acquire acceptable foods in socially acceptable ways (i.e., without resorting to emergency food supplies, scavenging, stealing, or other unusual coping strategies).
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Hunger
• The uneasy or painful sensation caused by a lack of food.
• Involuntary hunger that results from not being able to afford enough food
• The recurrent and involuntary lack of access to food
• May produce malnutrition over time.
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“Food Insecurity and Hunger in the United States: An Assessment of the Measure.”
(IOM 2006)
• Recommended that USDA continue to measure and monitor food insecurity regularly in a household survey
• Affirmed the appropriateness of the general methodology currently used to measure food insecurity
• Suggested several ways in which the methodology might be refined (contingent on confirmatory research). Research on these issues is currently underway at ERS
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Changes in Definitions – IOM 2006
• “Food insecurity—a household-level economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
• “Hunger is an individual-level physiological condition that may result from food insecurity - should refer to a potential consequence of food insecurity that, because of prolonged, involuntary lack of food, results in discomfort, illness, weakness, or pain that goes beyond the usual uneasy sensation."
• To measure hunger in this sense would require collection of more detailed and extensive information on physiological experiences of individual household members than could be accomplished effectively in the context of the CPS.
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2006, New Definitions
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8.6 million children lived in food-insecure households in which children, along with adults, were food insecure. However, children are usually protected from substantial reductions in food intake even in households with very low food security. In 2011, 845,000 children (1.1 percent of the Nation's children) lived in households with very low food security among children.
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1999
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Food insecurity with hunger/aka very low food security
Years US WA WA Rank
1996-98 3.7% 4.7% 4
1997-98 3.1% 4.7% 2
1998-00 3.3% 5.0% 2
1999-01 3.1% 4.6% 2
2000-02 3.5% 4.4% 5
2001-03 3.5% 3.9% 10
2002-04 3.9% 4.3% 11
2003-05 3.8% 3.9% 30
2005-07 4.0% 3.5% 34
2006-08 5.7% 4.3% 29 (4 tied)
2007-2009 5.2% 5.8% 12
2008-10 5.6% 6.1% 11 (3 tied)
2009-2011 5.6% 6.2% 14 (1 tie)
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State-Level Predictors of Food Insecurity and Hunger Among Households With
Children, 2005
• Used hierarchical modeling to identify contextual dimensions of food insecurity: – Availability and accessibility of federal
nutrition assistance programs– Policies affecting wellbeing of low income
families– States economic and social characteristics
http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/CCR13/
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Important Protective Factors
• Food stamps and summer meals programs
• Tax policies that support low income families
• Job opportunities/strong labor market• “Robust” relationship between median rent
and food insecurity• Residential stability and social capital
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It’s not just poverty…
• Some states have high rates of food insecurity, but lower rates of poor families and families headed by a single adult.
• Propose concept of “excess food insecurity” to determine which states may benefit from strengthening the food security infrastructure.
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Why did Washington’s rates improve in 2000s?
• Increased participation in federal programs• Between 2001 and 2004 there was a 59%
increase in food stamp participation.• In 2002 56% of eligible families received food
stamps; in 2005 68% received food stamps.• WA state legislature increased funding for
school lunch, breakfast and summer meals