Open Access‘We are constantly overdrawn, despite not spending money on anything other than bills and food’: a mixed-methods, participatory study of food and food insecurity in the context of income inequality
Author(s) -
Katie Pybus,
Maddy Power,
Kate E. Pickett
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
the journal of poverty and social justice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1759-8281
pISSN - 1759-8273
DOI - 10.1332/175982720x15998354133521
Subject(s) - food insecurity , poverty , context (archaeology) , socioeconomic status , food security , economics , citizen journalism , inequality , business , public economics , economic growth , socioeconomics , agriculture , geography , sociology , political science , population , mathematical analysis , demography , mathematics , archaeology , law
This article reports on a participatory, mixed-methods study, of the causes and lived experiences of food insecurity in the context of an unequal city in England. Among families with young children, we find that income and housing tenure are strongly associated with food insecurity and food bank use, and these impacts extend to higher socioeconomic status groups. Higher costs of food, housing and transport associated with life in an unequal context, meant that food formed part of a series of competing pressures on household budgets. We urge future food insecurity research to focus further on these broader socioeconomic drivers of poverty.