Domestic Food Programs, Hunger and Undernutrition in Rural America: How Secure is the Safety Net?

1994 ◽  
Vol 22 (4) ◽  
pp. 179-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlton G. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Safety Net ◽  
Real Income ◽  
Rural America ◽  
Effective Demand ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Transfer Programs ◽  
Nutrient Consumption ◽  
Food Programs ◽  
Domestic Food

This article analyzes the efficacy and distributional impacts of domestic food assistance programs as a safety net against hunger and undernutrition in rural America. The framework of analysis emphasizes the interactions among income level, food availability and nutrient consumption levels. The deteriorating real income of poor rural residents in the 1970s and 1980s eroded the effective demand for essential food and nutrient groups. From 1979 to 1983, the number of rural poor who were eligible for but did not receive food stamps increased from 5.67 million to 7.51 million. It is argued that food programs can begin to serve as an effective safety net only when they are synchronized with other transfer programs and programs that increase the effective demand for food and nutrients through increased employment opportunities.

Food Security Policy in Developed Countries

2011 ◽  
pp. 320-343
Author(s):  
Parke Wilde
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Security Policy ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
Primary Response ◽  
Economic Policies ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Multiple Question ◽  
The Relationship

This article reviews food security measurement and its connection to policy responses in developed countries. It focuses on survey-based methods, sometimes called “third generation” measures of food security. This article discusses examples drawn from across a range of developed countries whenever possible. It presents the relationship between food insecurity and hunger definitions. It then moves on to a discussion of advantage and disadvantage of the multiple-question approach. Countries address food security through general economic policies and through more specific food assistance programs. This article deals with general economic policies including anti-poverty programs and interventions to support the low-wage labor market and concludes that developed countries associate food security with symptoms of material deprivation and social exclusion for which the primary response is the income-based social safety net more broadly.

Health Impacts of Food Assistance: Evidence from the United States

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 261-287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marianne P. Bitler ◽  
Arian Seifoddini
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Safety Net ◽  
The United States ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Health Impacts ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Health And Nutrition ◽  
Theoretical Predictions ◽  
Short Run

This review focuses on the health and nutrition impacts of food assistance programs. We focus particular attention on the United States, both because of the plethora of types of programs and associated variation and because spending on these programs is a large share of the nonmedical safety net there. We begin by reviewing the theoretical predictions concerning health and nutrition effects of these programs, also paying attention to potential mediators such as education and income. We then discuss program eligibility and size, both as caseload and in terms of spending. We next touch on identifying causal variation and opportunities for further research. The review concludes by discussing the existing literature in five broad areas: take-up and use of the programs; effects on nutrition and food consumption; other immediate effects on short-run health; impacts on other contemporaneous outcomes such as income and labor supply; and longer-run health and nutrition effects.

scholarly journals Effects of Food Assistance Programs, Demographic Characteristics, and Living Environments on Children’s Food Insecurity

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 145
Author(s):  
Zhiming Qiu ◽  
Chanjin Chung
Keyword(s):  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Simultaneous Equation ◽  
Demographic Characteristics ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Food Programs ◽  
The Status ◽  
Living Environments

The objective of this study is to examine impacts of food assistance programs, demographic characteristics, and socioeconomic status of households on children’s food insecurity in U.S. Annual cross-sectional and pseudo-panel analyses with fixed effect regressions are conducted in this study using probit and truncated regressions. The simultaneous equation procedure is applied to address the endogeneity problem caused by the reverse influence of food insecurity on participation of food programs. Results show that some government-sponsored food programs are effective in alleviating the children’s food insecurity problem, and demographic characteristics and living environments are important factors in determining the status of children’s food insecurity. Our results also manifest the importance of considering the endogeneity problem of food program variables in evaluating the effectiveness of food programs.

scholarly journals Use of Formal and Informal Food Resources by Food Insecure Families in Lima, Peru: A Mixed-Methods Analysis

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. D. Brewer ◽  
M. P. Santos ◽  
M. A. Lopez ◽  
V. A. Paz-Soldan ◽  
M. P. Chaparro
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Methods ◽  
Food Insecurity ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Food Resources ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs ◽  
Food Security Status ◽  
Financial Need ◽  
June July ◽  
Food Insecure Households

AbstractThe goal of this study was to measure food insecurity among families with children in a low-income district of Lima, Peru and to identify the formal and informal food resources available to them that may affect their food security status. In June-July 2019, we collected data from 329 randomly selected households in Villa El Salvador (Lima, Peru). Following a mixed methods approach, we found that the percentage of households using food assistance programs (FAPs) increased with increasing levels of food insecurity, but two FAPs were heavily used by households regardless of food (in)security. The main reasons for using FAPs included financial need, already being signed up in the program, and believing that the food was of nutritional value; the main reasons for non-use were finding the program unnecessary, dislike or poor perceived quality of the food, and not being able to sign up for the program. Similarly, informal food resources, such as buying food on credit or receiving food from someone outside the household, were incrementally used with increased levels of food insecurity. Our study clarifies the relationship between level of household food insecurity and FAP use – FAPs more commonly used by food insecure households were used because of financial need, whereas the FAPs most commonly used by food secure households were those with automatic enrollment. At a programmatic level, our research highlights the need for making nutritious and preferred foods available in FAPs and standardizing the application of enrollment criteria.

Food Assistance Programs

1995 ◽  
Vol 30 (4) ◽  
pp. 177
Author(s):  
DONNA V. PORTER
Keyword(s):  
Food Assistance ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs

scholarly journals Food Security and Weight Status in Children: Interactions With Food Assistance Programs

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (2) ◽  
pp. S138-S144 ◽  
Author(s):  
Binh T. Nguyen ◽  
Christopher N. Ford ◽  
Amy L. Yaroch ◽  
Kerem Shuval ◽  
Jeffrey Drope
Keyword(s):  
Food Security ◽  
Weight Status ◽  
Food Assistance ◽  
Food Assistance Programs ◽  
Assistance Programs
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