Did Food Insecurity rise across Europe after the 2008 Crisis? An analysis across welfare regimes

摘要: Since the 2008 crisis, there has been a sharp rise in demand for food aid across high-income countries, spurring increased academic interest issue of insecurity. Despite this heightened interest, remains paucity quantitative evidence on trends prevalence insecurity rich countries. In context, following article presents ‘direct’ recent patterns countries and welfare regimes using secondary analysis European Quality Life Survey. It uses an item which longstanding component deprivation scales, ‘could your household afford meal with meat, chicken or fish every second day if you wanted it?’, to investigate two hypotheses. First, we explore whether risen since crisis as suggests. Second, examine varied regimes, it occurred at all. The finds support both contentions: many by regime. also that contrary expectations, sharpest was Anglo-Saxon Ireland UK, rather than Southern Eastern