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Grimaccia E, Naccarato A. Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective. Soc Indic Res. 2020;1-19doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8.
Grimaccia, E., & Naccarato, A. (2020). Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective. Social indicators research, 1-19. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8
Grimaccia, Elena, and Naccarato, Alessia. "Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective." Social indicators research vol. (2020): 1-19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8
Grimaccia E, Naccarato A. Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective. Soc Indic Res. 2020 May 21;1-19. doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8. Epub 2020 May 21. PMID: 32836670; PMCID: PMC7250274.
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Soc Indic Res. 2020 May 21;1-19. doi: 10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8. Epub 2020 May 21.

Food Insecurity in Europe: A Gender Perspective.

Social indicators research

Elena Grimaccia, Alessia Naccarato

Affiliations

  1. Istat, National Institute for Statistics, Via Cesare Balbo 16, 00184 Rome, Italy.
  2. Department of Economics, Roma Tre University, Via Silvio D'Amico, 77, 00145 Rome, Italy.

PMID: 32836670 PMCID: PMC7250274 DOI: 10.1007/s11205-020-02387-8

Abstract

Food insecurity is the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate and safe foods or limited or uncertain ability to acquire foods in socially acceptable ways. The study presents a comparison of the principal determinants of individual food insecurity in Europe and other Continents, with particular regard to gender, since the literature clearly states the importance of women in the administration of food in the household. The study of gender related differences in food insecurity is particularly important in Europe, since women experience food insecurity at a larger extent than men, but with a variability related to the geographical distribution and with complex relationships with economic and social drivers. Using a large international sample of individual level data, that allows the analysis for developed Countries for the first time, and the first experiential measure of food insecurity comparable at the global level, the paper analyses the principal determinants of gender differences in food insecurity. In order to verify if women's vulnerability in food insecurity is moderated by specific factors, the modelling approach allows gender to vary by education, poverty, place of residence. The results suggest that the driver that could most mitigate women disadvantage is education: people with a university degree present a lower probability of experiencing food insecurity, both for men and for women. On the contrary, familial characteristics, such as the number of children in the household, present a higher impact on women's food insecurity than on men's.

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Keywords: Europe; Food insecurity; Gender; Ordered logistic regression

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