The UK food security index: whose food security is it targeting to?

The index measures year-on-year change, building on the UKFSR evidence base but also taking into account wider intelligence and forecasts, and policy developments. In contrast with the common use of the term, the index is not presented as a single number but it comprises 9 separate indicators across a range of areas.

The 9 indicators and their assessment (in parenthesis) are:

Dr David Watts

My research interests include: food insecurity and how it can be tackled; how economic circumstances and food consumption practices are linked; how consumers and producers construct, materially and conceptually, 'alternative' economic networks, both now and in the past. This work is informed by cultural political economy, and I am currently working on how this perspective can be applied to smaller and micro-scales through an engagement with the work of Max Weber and Pierre Bourdieu.

David Watts

The Rowett Institute

Foresterhill

Aberdeen

AB25 2ZD

 

Professor Cesar Revoredo Giha

Cesar is an applied economist based at SRUC who is the Work Package Cordinator for Food Security and Supply theme (B4). His research for SEFARI inlcudes improving food and drink production, food trade and consumption.
 

Cesar Revoredo Giha

Scotland’s Rural College
Peter Wilson Building, The King's Buildings
West Mains Road
Edinburgh
EH9 3JG

Dr Liz Dinnie

My research interests focus on community initiatives, social change and social justice. I am particularly interested in the ways in which local and grassroots movements for change are influencing and being influenced by changes in governing. Further details can be found on my James Hutton Institute staff page.

Liz Dinnie

The James Hutton Institute
Craigiebuckler
Aberdeen AB15 8QH
Scotland UK