About: How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty

Facets (new session)
Description
Metadata
Settings
- owl:sameAs
- Inference Rule:

About: How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty Goto Sponge NotDistinct Permalink

An Entity of Type : schema:ScholarlyArticle, within Data Space : covidontheweb.inria.fr associated with source document(s)

Attributes	Values
type	Academic Article research paper schema:ScholarlyArticle
isDefinedBy	Covid-on-the-Web dataset
title	How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty
Creator	Doherty, Bob Holt, Diane London, King Pickett, Kate Power, Madeleine »more»
source	PMC
abstract	This article draws upon our perspective as academic-practitioners working in the fields of food insecurity, food systems, and inequality to comment, in the early stages of the pandemic and associated lockdown, on the empirical and ethical implications of COVID-19 for socio-economic inequalities in access to food in the UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened the profound insecurity of large segments of the UK population, an insecurity itself the product of a decade of ‘austerity’ policies. Increased unemployment, reduced hours, and enforced self-isolation for multiple vulnerable groups is likely to lead to an increase in UK food insecurity, exacerbating diet-related health inequalities. The social and economic crisis associated with the pandemic has exposed the fragility of the system of food charity which, at present, is a key response to growing poverty. A vulnerable food system, with just-in-time supply chains, has been challenged by stockpiling. Resultant food supply issues at food banks, alongside rapidly increasing demand and reduced volunteer numbers, has undermined many food charities, especially independent food banks. In the light of this analysis, we make a series of recommendations. We call for an immediate end to the five week wait for Universal Credit and cash grants for low income households. We ask central and local government to recognise that many food aid providers are already at capacity and unable to adopt additional responsibilities. The government’s - significant - response to the economic crisis associated with COVID-19 has underscored a key principle: it is the government’s responsibility to protect population health, to guarantee household incomes, and to safeguard the economy. Millions of households were in poverty before the pandemic, and millions more will be so unless the government continues to protect household incomes through policy change.
has issue date	2020-05-13(xsd:dateTime)
bibo:doi	10.35241/emeraldopenres.13539.2
has license	cc-by
sha1sum (hex)	b6eddf5db80acc4298ebd64d84ccb3a91eb830b6
schema:url	https://doi.org/10.35241/emeraldopenres.13539.2
resource representing a document's title	How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food and poverty
has PubMed Central identifier	PMC7219559
resource representing a document's body	covid:b6eddf5db80acc4298ebd64d84ccb3a91eb830b6#body_text
is schema:about of	named entity 'continues' named entity 'policy' named entity 'food insecurity' named entity 'pandemic' named entity 'supply' »more»

Faceted Search & Find service v1.13.91 as of Mar 24 2020

Alternative Linked Data Documents: Sponger | ODE Content Formats:

RDF

ODATA

Microdata

About

OpenLink Virtuoso version 07.20.3229 as of Jul 10 2020, on Linux (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu), Single-Server Edition (94 GB total memory)
Data on this page belongs to its respective rights holders.
Virtuoso Faceted Browser Copyright © 2009-2025 OpenLink Software