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Martin Caraher Professor of Food and Health Policy
Centre for Food Policy
City University
London EC1V OHB
+44 (0)20 7040 4161
Healthway Visiting Research Fellow 2016
Food charity in the UK: an
inadequate response to a big
problem-
Some Pilotitis
4
The New Politics of Food
AUSTRALIA CANADA /US
• In Australia increases in cost of food -butter up 23%; tomatoes 23%; baby food 29%.
• Woolworths (Australia) warns of higher food prices in the coming 2 years
• Trans Pacific Trade Agreement?
• Growing sub-urban areas where housing appears and food follows??? If you are lucky.
• US one in two children born
into poverty
• 48.1 million Americans
lived in food insecure
households, including 15.3
million children. EU 150
million are food insecure.
• Households with children
reported food insecurity at
a significantly higher rate
than those without children,
Evolu>on&of&the&food&bank&network&in&Canada&
1981' 2014'
More'than'800'food'banks'operaI ng'a'total'of'3000'food'programs.'
Evolution of the food bank
network in Canada 1981-2014
Evolution of Food bank network
in Canada 1981-2014
US and Canada modules
• Series of 18 questions describing increasingly severe
household food circumstances
• Questions specify financial resource constraint, specify time
period of past 12 months, and differentiate experiences of
adults and children
BUT
POVERTY IN THE UK
• Between 1998 and 2009 household income for low income households
rose 22% to £208/week before housing costs but food prices rose by 33%.
• We estimated that a low income family would be disproportionally effected
by a 5% increase by about 40%
• In the UK • Those in low income groups are eating more fast food!
• Due to rise in food prices, rise in fuel prices and squeeze on the household budget the new poor.
• Sales of Cadbury’s chocolate and Domino’s pizza are up!!!
UK food poverty
• One in five families live below the poverty line putting them at
risk of food poverty;
• 14 million individuals and within this over 4 million children are at
risk and 4 million suffer from serious nutrient related health
problems.
• Food benefits free school meals and Healthy Start + free fruit
and veg.
• People go hungry and are overweight- the same groups.
• The link is greatest between poverty and outcomes such as
obesity
Foodbanks
• One in 2000
• Now 1000+ half run by the TT, 2/3 new ones a week
• Others food cycle and outlets run by charities and
sourced by Fare Share
• Muslim food banks
• Other models
Spread&of&Trussell&Trust&food&banks&across&local&authori>es&in&the&UK.&
First'food'bank:'1999'in'Salisbury.''2006:'7'local'authoriI es'with'8'food'banks.''
2006& 2013&
Over'420'food'banks.'
NB this is only 47% of
the total food banks
So
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!!!Findings'from'the'Can$Cook!(CiC),!Teaching)‘Families(to(Cook’!programme(!
Martin Caraher Susan Lloyd
The Centre for Food Policy
City University London
2013
CONFIDENTIAL This report should not to be reproduced without communicating with the authors or the Can Cook programme.
Contact either Lucy Parkes at Can Cook - [email protected] or Martin Caraher at - [email protected].
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Contents!
1. Outline and background
2. Methodology
3. Results
3.1 Background and contextual data
3.2. Changes in Family shopping habits/food consumption
3.3 Evidence for the Can Cook programme
3.3.1 Cooking confidence pre and post intervention 3.3.2 Barriers to transference of cooking skills into the home environment
3.3.3 Fear of the new-Food neophobia
3.3.4 Men as cooks
4. Discussion and conclusions
Appendices
Acknowledgements
Thanks to all the Can Cook Staff who helped in this especially Lucy, Robbie and Rebecca and to the participants themselves and to the interviewers from Five Family Involvement team especially Jamal
Dermott, Allette Barton and Donna Lauder.
So
Kettle food bags –eat or heat is the choice for many
And the BUTs are
• Doesn’t capture the nature
of food poverty
• Like food bank usage does
not capture how people,
families are coping
• Liverpool work –jigsaw
families
For low income households
• Households saved an average of 4% between 2007 and 2010 by
trading down to cheaper products.
• While trading down to cheaper products has helped many people
offset some of the food price rises, low income households have not
managed to trade down, possibly as they were already buying
cheaper products. The lowest income decile (bottom 10%) on
average bought less food rather than trading down. Energy content
of their household food fell 8.7% between 2007 and 2010, as they
cut back on bread, cereals, biscuits, cake, beef, fruit and vegetables.
• Falling income (after housing costs) and rising food prices produced
a double effect, reducing food affordability by over 20% for lowest
income decile households.
• Low-income households bought more alcoholic drinks despite food
price rises, possibly because prices for alcoholic drinks rose less
than prices of food.
• Now trading down means…..???
Some dangers
14/03/2016, 02:46easyFoodstore | No expensive brands, Just food honest ly pr iced
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1. From the 15th February 2016 the store will be open from Monday to Friday from 11am until 5pm excluding Bank holidays. This is to facilitaterestocking and cleaning the store.
2. From the 15th February 2016 customers will be limited to 10 units of the same item per day. For example, one person may purchase 10 cans of tunaand/or 10 cans of baked beans but no more than 10 cans. This is to prevent shopkeepers from purchasing stock to resell at a higher price.
3. From the 1st March 2016 we will be reducing our range of products from approximately 70 down to 40 of the best selling items.4. Finally the new special promotional price for the months of March and April 2016 will be 29p per item in store, whilst stocks last.
Happy shopping.
08/03/2016, 04 :59Denmark's newest grocer only sells unloved food : TreeHugger
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And the crowds can’t get enough!
Mislabeled products, damaged packaging, ugly produce, looming expiration dates –
these are the things that send perfectly good supermarket food to the trash bin and add
to the prodigious problem of food waste. In the United States we lose up to 40 percent
of our food after it leaves the farm and the problem isn’t exclusive to the Land of
Opportunity. France recently made it illegal for supermarkets to throw out unsold food
– viva la France! – and now Denmark is jumping on the noble don’t-waste-food
bandwagon with the launch of a novel new supermarket model, WeFood.
Danish supermarkets throw out 163,000 tons of food each year – things like treats for a
past holiday, a ripped box of cornflakes, plain white rice mislabeled as basmati, or
anything nearing its expiration date, writes Sidsel Overgaard for NPR. Items that are
perfectly edible, but don’t pass the standards of what consumers expect from normal
Denmark's newest grocer only sells unloved
food
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14/03/2016, 02:21Social supermarkets serving st ruggl ing UK f amilies - FT.com
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March 11, 2016 6:03 am
Kate Burgess
Community Shop in Lambeth is no ordinary supermarket. A little more than a year old, it has
signed up 650 local residents, who can shop for branded cupboard staples at bargain-basement
prices. The shop is the brainchild of John Marren, founder of the equally unimaginatively
Social supermarkets serving struggling UKfamilies
Just a year old, Community Shop in Lambeth has already signed up 650 local residents enabling them to
shop for branded cupboard staples at bargain-basement prices ©Charlie Bibby Manager Clara preparing the shop for the first customers
So is the answer?
ANDES stores in France/Belgium and Greek food bank
struggles to meet demand BUT
fundamentally different responses
So use of food banks
• Welfare recipients, those with delays, whoa have been
sanctioned, bedroom tax
• The working poor, those on zero hour contracts [see NZ]
• The young single
• Less elderly as pensions have kept pace with inflation etc
and benefits protected
So use of food banks
• Supply/demand?
• The industry are cutting down on waste, good Samaritan
legislation may undermine this
• Is supply such as this to the ‘poor’ morally defensible
• Cannot be healthy
• Depoliticises hunger
Why should not Old Men be Mad?
Why should not old men be mad?
………………………….
And when they know what old books tell
And that no better can be had,
Know why an old man should be mad
