Food Insecurity during COVID-19.

COVID‐19 I31 Map the Meal Gap Q18 food insecurity hunger poverty

Journal

Applied economic perspectives and policy
ISSN: 2040-5790
Titre abrégé: Appl Econ Perspect Policy
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101635420

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
Mar 2021
Historique:
received: 16 07 2020
accepted: 12 09 2020
pubmed: 13 10 2020
medline: 13 10 2020
entrez: 12 10 2020
Statut: ppublish

Résumé

For a decade, Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap (MMG) has provided sub-state-level estimates of food insecurity for both the full population and for children. Along with being extensively used by food banks, it is widely used by state and local governments to help plan responses to food insecurity in their communities. In this paper, we describe the methods underpinning MMG, detail the approach Feeding America has used to make projections about the geography of food insecurity in 2020, and how food insecurity rates may have changed due to COVID-19 since 2018. We project an increase of 17 million Americans who are food insecure in 2020 but this aggregate increase masks substantial geographic variation found in MMG.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33042509
doi: 10.1002/aepp.13100
pii: AEPP13100
pmc: PMC7537061
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Pagination

153-161

Informations de copyright

© 2020 Agricultural & Applied Economics Association.

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