{"id":44233,"date":"2019-03-15T12:01:49","date_gmt":"2019-03-15T11:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/?p=44233"},"modified":"2019-03-28T10:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-03-28T09:19:07","slug":"anna-taylor-why-officially-measuring-scale-food-insecurity-crucial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/03\/15\/anna-taylor-why-officially-measuring-scale-food-insecurity-crucial\/","title":{"rendered":"Anna Taylor: Why officially measuring the scale of food insecurity is crucial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"standfirst\">If we can record the scale of the problem, it\u2019ll be the first step towards changing it, says Anna Taylor<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-44235\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/files\/2019\/03\/anna_taylor.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"217\" \/>Last month the UK\u2019s Department for Work and Pensions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/2019\/feb\/27\/government-to-launch-uk-food-insecurity-index\">announced that it will start measuring food insecurity<\/a> as part of its annual Family Resources Survey. This decision has been welcomed by many and represents a major breakthrough for campaigners who want to see an end to food insecurity in the UK.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/foodfoundation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/FoodInsecurityBriefing-May-2016-FINAL.pdf\">Food insecurity<\/a> is when a household faces periods during which it doesn\u2019t have enough money to acquire food, or when the household cannot buy the full variety of food needed for a healthy diet.*<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0It is a severe form of material deprivation.\u00a0The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.journalslibrary.nihr.ac.uk\/phr\/phr06130\/#\/full-report\">mental and physical health consequences<\/a> for people affected by food insecurity are far reaching and profound, and for children they can last a lifetime.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Whether or not food insecurity exists in the UK is contested. The <a href=\"https:\/\/hansard.parliament.uk\/Commons\/2019-01-07\/debates\/7B80FBA6-9A43-4255-9CBD-2AEBD7B7BC79\/UNSpecialRapporteurOnExtremePovertyAndHumanRights\">response<\/a> to the recent visit from the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/EN\/NewsEvents\/Pages\/DisplayNews.aspx?NewsID=23881&amp;LangID=E\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">UN Special Rapporteur on Extreme Poverty<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is testimony to this,<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> as is the media discourse about food bank statistics and whether they reflect a real problem or a shift in supply. Arguing over the numbers has created a vast space for inaction. This is why it is so important to have official statistics on the scale of food insecurity and who is affected. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Until now, the government usually refers to the proportion of household income spent on food, and the fact that this has not changed much in recent years, as evidence that food insecurity is not a problem. The fact that the absolute amount which many households are spending on food is much less than the requisite sum needed to buy a healthy diet as defined by the government is not considered. Indeed, when the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foodfoundation.org.uk\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food Foundation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> compared disposable income after housing costs with the cost of a healthy diet (using government sponsored data), <a href=\"https:\/\/foodfoundation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/Affordability-of-the-Eatwell-Guide_Final_Web-Version.pdf\">we found that in the poorest 20% of households<\/a>, buying a healthy diet would use 42% of disposable income. Around 3.7 million children live in households that face these circumstances.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Importantly, however, the new measure will not count income and expenditure, but will instead ask about people\u2019s lived experience. The experience of food insecurity is notably similar wherever you live. It begins in its milder forms as being worried that money will run out before the next food shop is needed and advances to cutting back on the quality of food purchased. The next stage involves skipping meals and cutting out food entirely for prolonged periods of time. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This universal account led the United Nations to draw on the longstanding experiences of the US and Canadian governments, and develop a calibrated score for food insecurity that is based on people&#8217;s experience. The UK will be adopting a similar approach<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">. It is worth noting that the <a href=\"http:\/\/endhungeruk.org\/new-stats-show-1-10-scotland-food-poverty\/\">Scottish government has already been on this journey<\/a> and gathered some of these data as part of the Scottish Health Survey for the past two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">It is, of course, perfectly possible to be food insecure and obese. Food insecurity can create immense stress and anxiety in households, and contributes to irregular eating patterns and a pressure to buy the cheapest calories to alleviate hunger.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Food insecurity is a deeply shameful experience. Children feel this shame as profoundly as their parents. The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foodfoundation.org.uk\/childrens-future-food-inquiry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Children\u2019s Future Food Inquiry<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which will report later in April after a year long effort by a cross party parliamentary group to talk to disadvantaged children and young people about their food experiences, has already revealed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/foodfoundation.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Childrens-Future-Food-Inquiry-Spreads.pdf\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">just how stigmatised children feel<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The systematic measurement of this problem in official statistics will, we hope, create space for a much deeper look at the policy frameworks in place across the UK that prevent people from securing the basic right to eat a healthy diet. If we can record the scale of the problem, it\u2019ll be the first step towards changing it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>*<span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> While there is not an official government definition of food insecurity used in the UK, this definition is drawn from guidance on measuring food insecurity in the US and was used for the UK\u2019s Low Income Diet and Nutrition Survey, 2007.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400\"><strong>Anna Taylor<\/strong> is the executive director of the Food Foundation.\u00a0She joined the Food Foundation as its first executive director at the beginning of June 2015 after five years leading the policy team on nutrition at the Department for International Development. Anna holds an MSc in human nutrition and has held roles at Save the Children, UNICEF, and on the GLA\u2019s London Food Board.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Competing interests:<\/strong> I\u00a0have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and declare the following interests: None.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If we can record the scale of the problem, it\u2019ll be the first step towards changing it, says Anna Taylor [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.bmj.com\/bmj\/2019\/03\/15\/anna-taylor-why-officially-measuring-scale-food-insecurity-crucial\/\">More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":42828,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[223],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-guest-bloggers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - 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