... of well-being beyond nutrition. Shared food practices and eating together contribute to social capital and are important dimensions of food well-being that are significantly restricted by food insecurity. The “food well-being” model envisages a shift in focus from health, defined as the absence of illness...

...Bethan R. Mead; Jessica A.C. Davies; Natalia Falagán; Sofia Kourmpetli; Lingxuan Liu; Charlotte A. Hardman Household food insecurity and poor well-being have increased during the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic and resulting lockdown measures. Home food growing has been associated...

...Neil Bernard Boyle; Maddy Power Background: Rising food bank usage in the UK suggests a growing prevalence of food insecurity. However, a formalised, representative measure of food insecurity was not collected in the UK until 2019, over a decade after the initial proliferation of food bank demand...

... evidence in the UK on the diet quality and food practices of households reporting food insecurity and food bank use. We explore lived experiences of food insecurity and underlying drivers of diet quality among low-income families, drawing upon two years of participatory research with families of primary...

... enables. As charities and community organisations step in to address food insecurity and fill the gaps of state support amid the politics of austerity, are we in danger of going backwards? Dr Maddy Power, working with N8 AgriFood’s University of York Chair, Professor Bob Doherty, believe...

...Maddy Power; Bob Doherty; Katie J. Pybus; Kate E. Pickett 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...