Journal
SOCIAL POLICY AND SOCIETY
Volume 14, Issue 3, Pages 417-428Publisher
CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1017/S1474746415000032
Keywords
UK; food poverty; food policy; food aid; food banks
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- EPSRC [EP/K003585/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/K003585/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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In the United Kingdom many households are seeing their food security suffer through rising food and fuel prices, economic recession and welfare reform. Household budgeting priorities by necessity tend to be towards expenditures whose default consequences are severe; food budgets are where people can and do make economies. People manage variously on minimal diets, food gifts and charitable support, but the consequences in terms of social wellbeing and nutritional health, while potentially severe, are hidden and individually embodied rather than monitored and addressed by society. This article discusses the potential consequences of these shifts in household food provisioning under conditions of increasing austerity. The challenges posed for social policy are explored, particularly in relation to changes in welfare provision, the increasingly prominent role of the voluntary and community sector and potential devolution of responsibilities to local levels.
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