{"id":466,"date":"2021-11-10T12:08:05","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T12:08:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/?page_id=466"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:13:34","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T12:13:34","slug":"project-overview","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/about-us\/project-overview\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Overview"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Food Security for Equitable Futures<\/strong> is a UKRI funded Future Leaders Fellowship which aims to provide robust evidence on food insecurity in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1aa31a;font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'\">What is Food Insecurity?<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Drawing on the UN Food and Agriculture Organization definition, our work identifies food insecurity as a situation in which access to sufficient safe and nutritious food to support a healthy life is sometimes or often problematic.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #1aa31a;font-size: 14pt;font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'\">Our Approach<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Research on high-income countries shows the adverse consequences of food insecurity on child and adolescent development, including risky health behaviours, distress, feelings of shame, poor educational outcomes, and unhealthy diets.\u00a0However, <strong>less well-investigated are the consequences of household FI in the Global South<\/strong>, particularly with respect to child and adolescent development and long-term well-being. Our work will fill these gaps in the literature by achieving the following aims:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #1aa31a;font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'\">Our Aim<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Explore how food insecurity in childhood and adolescence are associated with well-being over time, and which population groups are most at-risk<\/li>\n<li>Investigate whether or how households can effectively mitigate the negative effects of food insecurity<\/li>\n<li>Examine the extent to which food insecurity impacts some household members more than others<\/li>\n<li>Study how food insecurity can be best-measured in order to understand intrahousehold dynamics<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;color: #1aa31a;font-family: 'arial black', 'avant garde'\">Our Data<\/span><\/p>\n<p>You can find detailed information about our data collection in this <a href=\"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/files\/2026\/02\/Food_Insecurities_Policy_Brief_June22-1.pdf\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><span style=\"color: #008000;text-decoration: underline\">document<\/span><\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food Security for Equitable Futures is a UKRI funded Future Leaders Fellowship which aims to provide robust evidence on food insecurity in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. What is Food [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1359,"featured_media":0,"parent":47,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1359"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4534,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/466\/revisions\/4534"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/47"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/foodequity\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}