Food Aid: Living with Food Insecurity. Seed Final Report (original) (raw)
This scoping project was one of several commissioned through the Communities and Culture N T the experience of food aid into the wider socioeconomic and political contexts which surround it. A conceptual map was developed on the basis of these interviews and a complementary process of literature and documentary scoping which sought to identify existing evidence of the phenomena of food aid in the UK. In particular, the scoping exercise highlighted background and foregrounded accounts of why the recipients were using the food aid resources and their personal stories of wider T the landscape of existing evidence and discourses in policy arenas around food security and social policy, and general public debate, including emergent terminologies, particularly in the context of the current economic climate. Contents Executive Summary p. 2 Policy Issues The scoping project indicates that policy levers with potential impact on triggers to food aid use extend across Whitehall and Parliamentary boundaries, and national-local scales. The fragmentary nature of the contexts of these levers across spheres of government seems to challenge possibilities for a comprehensive approach to addressing food poverty, and the need for food aid. Empirical Issues The process of this scoping exercise raised some questions around the challenge of capturing these experiences of food poor households. Interviews can be traumatic for participants and issues of confidentiality and anonymity are paramount.
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