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How COVID-19 has exposed inequalities in the UK food system: The case of UK food
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Power M
; Doherty B
; Pybus K
; Pickett K
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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
implications of COVID-19 for socio-economic inequalities in access to food in the
UK. The COVID-19 pandemic has sharpened the profound insecurity of large segments
of the UK population, an insecurity itself the product of a decade of ?austerity?
policies. Increased unemployment, reduced hours, and enforced self-isolation for
multiple vulnerable groups is likely to lead to an increase in UK food
insecurity, exacerbating diet-related health inequalities. The social and
economic crisis associated with the pandemic has exposed the fragility of the
system of food charity which, at present, is a key response to growing poverty. A
vulnerable food system, with just-in-time supply chains, has been challenged by
stockpiling. Resultant food supply issues at food banks, alongside rapidly
increasing demand and reduced volunteer numbers, has undermined many food
charities, especially independent food banks. In the light of this analysis, we
make a series of recommendations. We call for an immediate end to the five week
wait for Universal Credit and cash grants for low income households. We ask
central and local government to recognise that many food aid providers are
already at capacity and unable to adopt additional responsibilities. The
government?s - significant - response to the economic crisis associated with
COVID-19 has underscored a key principle: it is the government?s responsibility
to protect population health, to guarantee household incomes, and to safeguard
the economy. Millions of households were in poverty before the pandemic, and
millions more will be so unless the government continues to protect household
incomes through policy change.