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Promoting Food Security: The Community Food Security Coalition

Food insecurity is a growing socioeconomic concern in the United States, perpetuated by rising rents and mortgages, increased health care and energy costs, low wages, and lack of jobs. Its most basic definition characterizes food insecurity as a household’s limited or uncertain access to adequate amounts of nutritious food; this is distinct from the notion of hunger, an individual-level physiological condition that results from food insecurity (United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service [USDA ERS], 2010b). Food insecurity has cascading, deleterious effects. Households that are food insecure often utilize noor low-income government assistance programs, including the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC). In 2009, there were 33.5 million participants in SNAP (formerly the Food Stamp Program), receiving an average monthly benefit of $125.31 (USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, 2011c); and 9.1 million participants in WIC, receiving an average monthly benefit of $42.40 (USDA, Food and Nutrition Service, 2011d). According to the 2009 Consumer Expenditure Survey, households spent an average of $312.75 monthly on food eaten at home (groceries) (United States Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2011b). Most food-stamp households report that their benefits do not last an entire month, and many turn to food pantries and soup kitchens or deal with intermittent hunger until the next paycheck comes (Food and Research Action Center, 2010). Food insecurity is associated with lower food expenditures, low fruit and vegetable consumption, and lower quality diets (Drewnowski & Specter,