"COVID-19 Affects Coping Strategies and Food Access for Maine Adults " by Tara Whiton, Kathryn Yerxa et al.

Food Science and Human Nutrition Faculty Scholarship

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COVID-19 Affects Coping Strategies and Food Access for Maine Adults

Authors

Tara Whiton, University of Maine at Presque IsleFollow
Kathryn Yerxa, University of Maine Cooperative ExtensionFollow
Rachel E. Schattman, University of MaineFollow

Publisher

University of Maine Cooperative Extension; the National Food Access and COVID Research Team

Publication Date

11-2021

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Abstract/ Summary

Food-coping strategies (FCS) are often measured as direct indicators of food insecurity, as they allow for an assessment of the vulnerability and sustainability of attempts to maintain a sufficient food supply by limited-resource individuals. They are often easier to assess than other household indicators of sufficiency, including income and food consumption. Because vulnerability is considered, food-security policies and programs that account for FCS can broaden their efforts from addressing current constraints to food consumption, to include actions that also address future threats to food security. Households may employ any one or a combination of the four types of coping strategies, depending on the severity and duration (chronic or temporary) of food insecurity experienced by that household.

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Whiton, Tara; Yerxa, Kathryn; and Schattman, Rachel E., "COVID-19 Affects Coping Strategies and Food Access for Maine Adults" (2021). Food Science and Human Nutrition Faculty Scholarship. 1.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/fsn_facpub/1

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