Food Poverty in the United Kingdom

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Food poverty in the UK
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Table of Contents
Part A:....................................................................................................................................................2
Illustrating the Rich Picture:..............................................................................................................2
Annotated Bibliography:...................................................................................................................3
Part B:....................................................................................................................................................8
Design fiction:...................................................................................................................................8
Discussion on the rationale of the above design fiction:...................................................................9
Critical reflection on the design fiction:..........................................................................................11
References:..........................................................................................................................................13

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Part A:
Illustrating the Rich Picture:
Figure 1: “Rich Picture for the food poverty at UK”
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Annotated Bibliography:
1. Article Name: Big society or broken society?: Food banks in the UK
Link: Caplan, P., 2016. Big society or broken society?: Food banks in the UK. Anthropology Today,
32(1), pp.5-9.
The article has demonstrated the present day rise of U.K.’s food poverty. Here, the causes for
that and few ways how this could be addressed through third or voluntary sector having specific
focus on the food banks. Utilizing various anthropological ideas like stigma, shame, gifting and
reciprocity of few the contradictions and complexities arising at the situation are investigated. From
the lens of food aid and food poverty, the author poses different queries regarding the entitlement
and rights and also political economy of austerity and inequality. The policies indicates them and
searches for investigating the anthropology as the effective contribution to be made at the sector.
2. Article Name: Understanding food poverty and the transitional behaviour of vulnerable
individuals
Link: McEachern, M., Moraes, C., Gibbons, A. and Scullion, L., 2020. Research brief update:
Understanding food poverty and the transitional behaviour of vulnerable individuals: Research brief
update.
More than 14 million are staying with poverty. They are experiencing the vulnerability n
various dimensions. The study shows the statistics on the community-based food aid of UK that
mainly lies on the people using 1,200 emergency services. These are delivered by food banks of
Trussell Trust. Nonetheless, other 809 independent food aid services that are community based have
the clients challenging the NGOs ad policymakers. This has been highly unaddressed. To respond to
that, the study highlight more nuanced type of evaluation of the temporal experiences of the

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consumers regarding food access exclusion and austerity. Apart from that, through identifying
contested idea of vulnerable the author also investigates what extra kind of support is required for
facilitating liminal transitions. This is intended or the people who have been going through the food
poverty. With the interpretive view point of view, the study has considered 24 detailed interviews
having the different clients involved in food aid providing at Greater Manchester and Birmingham
city. Moreover, the research proposes the temporal and nuanced experiences of food poverty and
austerity along with flexibility regarding how the different consumers has been navigating the
liminality period. Additionally, the study establishes the prolonged liminality and liminoid that are
co-existing in exclusion of food access that goes against the current discourses of Trussell Trust.
This is regarding the food aid through spaces of food aid non-judgmental in nature, caring and sense
of the community. It has also involved the reciprocity taking place among the volunteers and
experiencing vulnerability including the person enabling provision and food. Above all, the study
suggests a recommendation regarding social policy that is aligned with the Right of Scotland for the
food approach. This also includes the operational principles for the food aid providers who are
community based.
3. Article Name: Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
Link: Caplan, P., 2017. Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology.
British Politics and Policy at LSE.
The article states that not sufficient facts are investigates at U.K. regarding their policy
changes and economic phenomena. This has affected the ability of the families for feeding
themselves. Moreover, the study has implemented the effective approach to determine the kinds of
families at UK that are at risk regarding food poverty in due time. Implementing the approach and

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relative deprivation, the study the socially acceptable diet is what meets the necessities of social
anticipation and health and the amount that costs. Through comparing that with real expenditure of
food with various types of families between 2013 and 2015, that determines what is been expanding
less than intended and might be in risk of the food poverty. Furthermore, the assessment has
explained the fact that proportion is rising in due time for maximum types of families and for the
large families and lone parents specially. Besides, the demonstration also involves the findings under
the scenario of change in policy and financial contexts with implications of response of policies
regarding how food poverty can be measured and defined.
4. Article Name: Which types of family are at risk of food poverty in the UK? A relative
deprivation approach. Social Policy and Society
Link: O'Connell, R., Owen, C., Padley, M., Simon, A. and Brannen, J., 2019. Which types of family
are at risk of food poverty in the UK? A relative deprivation approach. Social Policy and Society,
18(1), pp.1-18.
The study investigates the scholarship that is concerned with the media representations
regarding poverty through exploring the coverage of newspaper regarding food poverty. This is
experienced through UK families and children. The analysis of content deals with the 6 newspapers
that are contrasting in nature starting from 2006 to 2015. It also finds reporting of families and
children of food poverty starting during 2011 and the peaks during 2014. It is been dominated
through articles related to the foodbanks. This narrative assessment determines the difference and
also similarities such that issues can be constructed in various papers having various political type of
stances and also notable absences in coverage. This also includes wider dimensions that are related
to the food poverty along with the children’s perspectives.

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5. Article Name: How do children and their families experience food poverty according to UK
newspaper media 2006‐15?. Journal of Poverty and Social Justice
Link: Knight, A., Brannen, J., O’Connell, R. and Hamilton, L., 2018. How do children and their
families experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006‐15?. Journal of Poverty
and Social Justice, 26(2), pp.207-223.
The austerity agenda of successive UK government is seen to push a rise in amount of adults
and the children towards poverty. This includes the United Nations that has been reporting about
eight millions at UK with an insufficient food supply. Important charities like Oxfam and Trussell
Trust has seen to be reporting yearly rise in amount of people accessing the foodbanks regarding
emergency food supply. Study on the effect of people in food poverty is seen to be reporting that
human beings experiencing adverse states of affection, loneliness and isolation. The present research
intends to deliver the insights towards the psychological effect of being under food poverty through
semi-structured interviews. This involves the people who uses the foodbanks situated under core
area of Scotland and locate findings under broader psychological literatures. As far as the methods
are concerned 27 participants including 13 females who are aged between 18 to 64 are recruited.
They are across the foodbanks near Ayrshire and Glasgow within January 2018 and November 2017.
Next, there are various types of semi-structured interviews that concentrates on situational
conditions of every person and the effect on psychological and physical wellbeing along with future
aims. At that point, the thematic analysis that s been conducted on the interview data transcribed.
The findings includes the four themes that are overarching having sub-themes that are determined in
the data. This displays that despite being in poverty of food, it has been adversely affecting the
mental health and altering the self-concepts of people and affecting the relationships and affecting
the future plans. At last, the study concludes that psychological effect of staying in food poverty has

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adverse results having potential to keep the people under poverty. Here, more in detailed research is
required to investigate the prolonged effect on the food poverty.

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Part B:
Design fiction:
The food poverty can also be indicated as the household food security. This encompasses the
affordability of good and its presence at local communities. Further, it is essential that the insecurity
of household food is considered to be driven through the availability and affordability of healthy
diet. This various adverse effects of individual wellbeing and health. Thus it is vital to assure that
individuals are able to access health diet under socially acceptable method and possess enough
certainty regarding how they secure healthy diet for the households and themselves. Moreover, the
poverty of food is a type of worse health, worse diet and greater percentage of income on food along
with less scope from limited ranges of the foods (Psarikidou et al. 2019). Moreover, every food
poverty deals with almost no or less consumption of vegetables and fruits. It can also be said that
individuals must be capable enough to access food under socially acceptable manner. Here, the food
security can be defined as the inability of consuming enough quality and amount of food under
socially acceptable manners and the uncertainty that one is able to perform. The food poverty has
been underpinned through various factors including education, cooking skills, availably and
affordability (Caraher 2017). Again, it indicates that household or individual is unable to gain
nutritious or healthy food or is unable to access food that they might like to eat. Though there is rise
in affordability and choice of food at U.K. various people have been eating what they are able to
afford and not the thing they intend. Here, the main idea is to possess sufficient one is to afford for
buying sufficient food (Caraher and Furey 2019). Nonetheless, though the families have sufficient
money for preventing hunger, the primary aim that is more complicated is that family has limited
food range to provide, no ability or little for preparing and then cook food. This also indicates that

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poverty of food could lead to eat much more low quality foods as there are more affordable and
available options.
This design fiction is intended to review various type of effective manners to measure the
poverty of food. Here, the intention is to support the making of decisions regarding whether food
poverty and must be measured. It is helpful to understand in what format the measurement must be
considered. At this scenario, the design fiction reveals the possible indicators of food property at UK
(Arcuri 2019). Moreover, given the result, the design fiction draws the effective evidence analysis to
set out range of method how food poverty can be measured potentially. Next, the focus is on the
common problems instead of UK particularly (Furey 2019). Thus, the design fiction presents data
regarding various measures seen during conducting the research that is already developing at U.K.
Further, the design fiction must include the recommendations of consultants to move further under
the light of common investigation with specific measures.
Discussion on the rationale of the above design fiction:
It is a type of secondary research and widely evaluates U.K’s food poverty and Rich poverty.
The first method followed is the proxy method. Here, number of individuals getting emergency level
of food packets are counted food bank. UK’s biggest network of food bank the Trussell trust has
been keeping the record of attendees of food bank. The figures of food bank are widely reported.
However, some might not be able to have the access towards emergency sources of food because of
the geographic position (Barons and Aspinall 2019). Next, a survey is conducted. Here, the
participants are been asked with questions of surveys on the ideas and the experiences of household
members. The process is relatively straight forwards and permitting complex realities (Howarth
2020). However, the responses are inaccurate because of difficulty or embarrassment for participant
recall and people in poor households never seeing themselves to be poor necessarily. Further, people

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facing food poverty might be fearful to provide honest responses and there must be cost of making
research with great sample. Then, the percentage of the income similar to fuel poverty can be
considered. Here, the calculation must be performed for working out what the proportion of income
has been spent on the food. This is parallel to the calculation of fuel poverty and can be understood
easily (Purdam, Garratt and Esmail 2016). Nonetheless, the food poverty could be complex than the
poverty of fuel. Then, the food basket for least nutritional intake can be considered. Here, the
requirements of nutritional intake must be consider and cost of food basket that meets the
requirements must be calculated. Here, the health targets must be included in the basket and the ideal
must be used already in few financial comparison activities. However, least nutritional baskets might
not be considered into account for the regional and national norms. Then, the food basket as the
basis for the material derivation method is performed. Here, the food basket is been devised by
asking various respondents of surveys to define the significant necessities (Riches 2016). Next, the
potential limitations are to be overcome across the acceptability of socio-cultural levels regarding
consumed food. Besides, the public opinion instead I choosing of researchers and experts are to be
used. Then the food is to be recognized for the mind of common public that is more than only the
nutrient intake. Here, the indicators lies on the basis of meals and foods instead of nutrients and so
the baskets are (Wheeler 2018). Apart from that, it needs the updating as the tastes alter regularly.
Moreover, it needs the surveys of household consumption. Here, the surveys in the household
expenditure are investigated and the nutritional and cost adequacy is to be evaluated. Here, the
nutritional content of the diets are possible to be found out and the food spent with the pending
patterns of nonfood are possible to be compared. Then, there are the segmentation questions. The
population are to be categorized as per the shared characteristics (Galli, Cavicchi and Brunori 2019).
Relying on the chosen model, it is easy to differentiate between for instance of groups are various
risk levels of being the poverty of food. Lastly, there can be medical and biomarker indicators. This

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is useful to make precise calculation of the deficiency of micronutrient in sample population
(Wickham et al. 2018).
Critical reflection on the design fiction:
This includes the current HCI literature that is linked the social change. From the
implications of the above design fiction, a widely-acknowledged and credible manner to calculate
food poverty is seen to one positive step further. For this, the main causes are highlighting the
importance of the problem and thus raising the profile and then harnessing resources and securing
attention. This also provides the platform to analyses success of initiatives searching to denote
poverty of food at U.K. Nevertheless, it has been broadly acknowledged, that the correct indicator
objectively never exists. There are some researches proposing the fact the disputes are present
various type of school of thought that has been acting so far as the type of brake upon lead towards
enhancement of proper indicator in the whole of U.K. For instance, the absence of the indicator
indicates that is complicated to undertake the assertions regarding extent or depth of food poverty.
This could be sustained. Besides, it is also proposed by few that the problem of food poverty has nee
at present pressing the fact that compromise has been necessary sufficiently. Further, there are few
kinds of indicators that must be adopted officially. Apart from that other people have shown the
perspective that dashboards of the indicators should deliver better solution. There are huge costs
stemming from the well-documents impacts of the food security for the mental, physical health of
child and the socio-emotional development. Further, the food insecurity is related to higher
challenge of asthma along with various chronic conditions of health, maternal depression, anxiety,
misconduct, low birth weight and depression.
Regarding the marginalized communities as U.K is serious regarding eradicating hunger an
essential changes are required rom the development model laying on the basis of charity and aiding

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the one based on the human rights. This also includes the reinforced from the side of accountability
mechanisms. The excluded, disempowered and marginalised communities have been locked
previously for the development plan to be place involving migrants poor, minorities, older and
various indigenous people. Apart from that, the political instability consist of specifically pernicious
impact on the ability to create incomes at various non-agricultural sectors and thus the purchase
food. Thus it can be definitely stated that food poverty has been present in every developed western
society. The fact is never merely shocking. Besides, it is also shameful. The activists, researches and
no-policy makers has sought to bring the current situation in positive conditions. Besides, none has
been arguing in the support of the poverty of food. Thus, reducing the poverty of food is never a
simple activity as indicated in the arguments and evidences in the reports have indicated.
Opportunities for the activities are there. It is also expected that the design fiction might help many
organizations and individuals at U.K. who are passionate regarding problem tackling for performing
just that.

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References:
Arcuri, S., 2019. Food poverty, food waste and the consensus frame on charitable food redistribution
in Italy. Agriculture and human values, 36(2), pp.263-275.
Barons, M.J. and Aspinall, W., 2019. UK food prices after Brexit, with implications for poverty and
health. arXiv preprint arXiv:1904.03053.
Caplan, P., 2016. Big society or broken society?: Food banks in the UK. Anthropology Today, 32(1),
pp.5-9.
Caplan, P., 2017. Food poverty and food aid in 21st century UK: a view from anthropology. British
Politics and Policy at LSE.
Caraher, M. and Furey, S., 2019. Are food banks merely a sticking plaster for food poverty?.
Caraher, M., 2017. Why giving surplus food to charities is not a solution to food poverty. Journal of
the Home Economics Institute of Australia, 24(2), p.37.
Furey, S., 2019, April. Measuring the existence and extent of food poverty. In Irish Academy of
Management Conference 2019.
Galli, F., Cavicchi, A. and Brunori, G., 2019. Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a
system dynamics conceptual model. Agriculture and human values, 36(2), pp.289-300.
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Knight, A., Brannen, J., O’Connell, R. and Hamilton, L., 2018. How do children and their families
experience food poverty according to UK newspaper media 2006‐15?. Journal of Poverty and Social
Justice, 26(2), pp.207-223.
McEachern, M., Moraes, C., Gibbons, A. and Scullion, L., 2020. Research brief update:
Understanding food poverty and the transitional behaviour of vulnerable individuals: Research brief
update.
O'Connell, R., Owen, C., Padley, M., Simon, A. and Brannen, J., 2019. Which types of family are at
risk of food poverty in the UK? A relative deprivation approach. Social Policy and Society, 18(1),
pp.1-18.
Psarikidou, K., Kaloudis, H., Fielden, A. and Reynolds, C., 2019. Local food hubs in deprived areas:
de-stigmatising food poverty?. Local Environment, 24(6), pp.525-538.
Purdam, K., Garratt, E.A. and Esmail, A., 2016. Hungry? Food insecurity, social stigma and
embarrassment in the UK. Sociology, 50(6), pp.1072-1088.
Riches, G., 2016. Food Poverty and Insecurity: International Food Inequalities. Anthropology of
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Wheeler, B., 2018. Non-prescribed spaces, creativity and narrative formation: a systems-based
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