Severe and Moderate Forms of Food Insecurity in Australia: Are They Distinguishable?

Temple, Jeromey

doi:10.1002/j.1839-4655.2008.tb00124.x

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“…Households headed by a single woman or man, youth-headed households and single-person households had a higher risk of food insecurity, which is consistent with the results of other studies (9,10,21,25,40) . However, these relationships became non-significant after adjusting for economic factors.…”

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confidence: 91%

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Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea

Kim

Shin

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To examine the prevalence of food insecurity and to identify factors that contribute to it in the Republic of Korea. Design: A cross-sectional study. Setting: Data were selected from a secondary data set, the third Korean Welfare Panel Study. Household food insecurity was measured with a six-item Korean version of the US Household Food Security Survey Module. The differences in proportions or means of household characteristics, householder's characteristics, economic status and social benefits by food insecurity status were tested with the x 2 or t test. The independent associations of food insecurity with each characteristic were assessed with multivariate logistic regression analysis. Subjects: The sample size consisted of 6238 households. Results: The prevalence of food insecurity was 5?3 % among all households and 25?7 % among low-income households. Risk factors that were associated with a higher risk of food insecurity included living alone, unemployment, no job, low household income and living in a leased or rented home. For low-income households, living in a leased or rented home increased the risk of food insecurity. Among food-insecure households, 26?1 % of the full sample of households and 34?3 % of low-income households were participating in food assistance programmes. Conclusions: Food insecurity among the Korean population was related to household type, income, job status and housing. Food assistance programmes were not enough to completely alleviate food insecurity.

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“…The experiential food insecurity measures have the advantage of incorporating as essential elements the perceptions of food insecurity by the people most affected, so that they are more direct measures of food insecurity than other proxy measures (1,4,6) . Currently, the measures have been extensively tested and proven robust in many countries (7)(8)(9)(10) .…”

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Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea

Kim

Shin

et al. 2011

Public Health Nutr.

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“…The significant correlations between food security and socio-economic factors evidenced in the study are paralleled by other research [15,16,18,19,50]. Food-insecure residents were more likely to come from the more vulnerable groups of low income families, the young (less than 25) and old (more than 65) groups, or those living in socio-economically disadvantaged rural areas.…”

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“…In Australia, a highly food-secure nation, there is also evidence that many Australians encounter physical and financial constraints to the daily access of nutritious foods [17][18][19][20]. For example, the 2006 Victorian Population Health Survey indicated 3.6% of two-parent families and 20.6% of one-parent families (both with dependent children) had, in the previous year, run out of food and had no money to buy more [21].…”

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Food Security in a Regional Area of Australia: A Socio-economic Perspective

Lê¹,

Auckland²,

Nguyen³

et al. 2014

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While Australia is considered to be a highly food-secure nation, some populations are more vulnerable to food insecurity than others and this applies to Tasmania, an island state of Australia. The aim of this study was to highlight food security issues in the two local government areas of Dorset and Clarence in Tasmania, Australia. This paper reports on the key quantitative findings of the project with a focus on food access and food utilisation, and their association with socio-economic factors. Quantitative data were collected from a total of 835 survey participants using a questionnaire developed in close consultation with service provider organizations as well as public health and nutrition experts. The study revealed 53 (6.6%) residents were at the low food security and 18 (2.1%) who literally went without food. The significant correlations between low food security and socio-economic factors evidenced in the study further suggested that the low-food security residents were more likely to come from the more vulnerable groups of low income families (χ2= 42.528, df = 6, p < 0.05), the younger and older population groups (χ2= 12.361, df = 5, p < 0.05) or those living in socio-economically disadvantaged rural areas (χ2= 165.9, df =7, p < 0.05). A link between physical and financial access was clearly indicated due to high fuel cost (44.4%) which was the most common barrier reported among those who used personal vehicles for travelling to and from food shops. The study findings help to direct strategic policies to food security for the future of Tasmanians such as the "Food for all Tasmanians" strategy by the Tasmanian Food Security Council which focuses on ensuring social food equity for all Tasmanians. These strategies include promoting publicly funded community cars, promoting local produce and food access initiatives such as increased farm gate sales, farmer markets, food cooperatives, community gardens and growing and swapping produce within communities.

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“…Four percent of respondents had needed emergency assistance from a charity, food bank, soup kitchen or other source. The same figure of 16% of people experiencing 'significant levels of food insecurity' was also found by Temple (2008) in a survey of South Western Sydney residents (19,500 people surveyed with a response rate of 89.5%). Drawing upon 2004-05 data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics' National Health Survey, Temple (2008) reports that 5% of people reported running out of food and not being able to purchase more, or missing a meal due to financial constraints.…”

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Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

Richards

Kjærnes²,

Vik

2016

Journal of Rural Studies

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The concept of food security is often anchored in popular understandings of the challenge to produce and supply enough food. However, decades of policies for intensive agriculture have not alleviated hunger and malnutrition, with an absence of food security featuring in both economically developing and developed nations. Despite perceptions that the economic growth in advanced, capitalist societies will ensure freedom from hunger, this is not universal across so-called 'wealthy nations'. To explore the dynamics of food security in economically developed countries, this paper considers institutional approaches to domestic food security primarily through responses to poverty and welfare entitlements, and, secondarily, through food relief. Through the lens of social entitlements to food and their formation under various expressions of welfare capitalism, we highlight how the specific institutional settings of two economically developed nations, Australia and Norway, respond to uncertain or insufficient access to food. Whilst Norway's political agenda on agricultural support, food pricing regulation and universal social security support offers a robust, although indirect, safety net in ensuring entitlements to food, Australia's neoliberal trajectory means that approaches to food security are ad hoc and rely on a combination of self-help, charitable and market responses.

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Severe and Moderate Forms of Food Insecurity in Australia: Are They Distinguishable?

Cited by 57 publications

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Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea

Factors related to household food insecurity in the Republic of Korea

Food Security in a Regional Area of Australia: A Socio-economic Perspective

Food security in welfare capitalism: Comparing social entitlements to food in Australia and Norway

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