The growing disconnect between food prices and wages in Europe: cross-national analysis of food deprivation and welfare regimes in twenty-one EU countries, 2004-2012.

摘要: Food insecurity has been rising across Europe following the Great Recession, but to varying degrees countries and over time. The reasons for this increase are not well understood, nor what factors might protect people’s access food. Here we test hypothesis that an emerging gap between food prices wages can explain increases in reported inability afford protein-rich foods whether welfare regimes mitigate its impact. We collected data twenty-one from 2004 2012 using two databases: (i) on deprivation related (denoted by eat meat, chicken, fish or a vegetarian equivalent every second day) EuroStat 2015 edition; (ii) Organisation Economic Co-operation Development edition. After adjusting macroeconomic factors, found each 1 % rise price of above was associated with greater self-reported (β=0·060, 95 CI 0·030, 0·090), particularly among impoverished groups. However, association also varied regimes. In Eastern European regimes, 0·076 percentage point (95 0·047, 0·105) while Social Democratic no clear (P=0·864). Rising coupled stagnating major factor driving deprivation, especially deprived groups; however, our evidence indicates more generous systems