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Food Insecurity - Connections between sources - Coggle Diagram
Food Insecurity - Connections between sources
Facts/Statistics
‘In January 2024, there were around 2.1 million pupils known to be eligible for FSM, representing 24.6% of state funded pupils.’ - Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals
‘In July 2024, 45% of adults in Great Britain reported an increase in their cost of living compared with the month before according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS). Of these, 92% saw the price of their food shopping go up, and 37% had started spending less on essentials, including food.’ - Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals
‘in 2022/23, 7.2 million people (11%) in the UK were in food insecure households, an increase of 2.5 million people since 2021/22. Among the 11.3 million people found to be in relative poverty before housing costs, 22% were in food insecure households, including 30% of children. People in relative poverty live in a household with income less than 60% of the contemporary median income.’ - Food poverty: Households, food banks and free school meals
‘The Food and Agriculture Organization of the UN estimated that around 2.2 million people in the UK are severely food insecure’ - A deep dive into food poverty in the UK
'The world today is experiencing a major food crisis, with over 200 million people facing emergency and famine conditions.' - Recognizing and tackling a global food crisis
Causes
‘The gradient in healthy life expectancy is steeper than that of life expectancy. It means that people in more deprived areas spend more of their shorter lives in ill health than those in less deprived areas.’ - A deep dive into food poverty in the UK
There is a huge rise in hunger globally caused by these factors:
Climate Change
Conflict
Poverty
Displacement
Inefficient/ineffective food systems
‘Almost 70 percent of the 309 million people facing acute hunger are in fragile or conflict-hit countries.' Source 1, 'A global food crisis'
Impacts
Decreased life expectancy - source 4
Global cereal production falls - source 6
200 million people facing emergency and famine conditions. - source 6
Increase in children receiving free school meals - source 4
What's been done already
'A coordinated effort across governments, financial institutions, the private sector and partners is the only way to end the global food crisis' - source 1
South American countries helping each other - source 2
A coordinated effort across governments, financial institutions, the private sector and partners is the only way to end the global food crisis. - source 5
PESTLE
Social factors
Life expectancy - source 2, source 4
Generational Poverty within families - struggle to break the cycle - source 4
Economic factors
No economic means to access food - source 2
Low income countries struggle to get out of poverty without the help of richer countries - source 2
lack of access to food banks regularly - especially within the UK, source 4, source 5
Rising cost of living - source 3
Free school meals - source 3, source 4, source 5
Environmental factors
Climate change - source 1
Drought - source 1
Political factors
Conflict - source 1,
World leaders unable to make an impact - source 2
Technological factors
Current agrifood systems failing - source 2, source 5