Does Home and Wild Food Procurement Enhance Food Security in High-Income Countries?

ABSTRACT: Many people in high-income countries obtain considerable portions of their diets from gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, and raising animals. Yet food security research in these countries has focused on the roles of commercial and charitable food systems, ignoring non-market food self-provisioning. This review brings together existing evidence to build a holistic understanding of how home and wild food procurement (HWFP) interacts with various dimensions of food security in high-income societies. HWFP impacts food security in multiple ways. It can increase food availability, improve dietary quality, provide access to otherwise unaffordable foods, and support the stability of household food supplies through personal hardships and societal shocks, though further research is needed to sub

SUBMITTER: Bliss S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12380996 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature