Food Foundation<\/a> estimates that the number of UK adults experiencing food insecurity has quadrupled since the lockdown began. We still don\u2019t know how this will impact health and well-being going forward, but this got us thinking: how is the outbreak affecting food access and well-being, and is there a role for urban agriculture here?<\/p>\nTwo days after lockdown began, we launched a new phase of research to help us understand how urban food growing may change people’s food access and well-being under lockdown. We ran an online survey to look at people\u2019s levels of food insecurity and well-being during the coronavirus outbreak, and the ways they were accessing food. In less than two weeks we had responses from 477 people from all over the UK. Almost everyone who took part was in some form of isolation or lockdown, and 152 of the people who took part were already growing their own fruits and vegetables.<\/p>\n
We\u2019re analysing the data now to look if there\u2019s differences in food insecurity and well-being between people who do or do not grow their own food, and if food insecurity might make people more open to growing food. Watch this space for the results!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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