Home food procurement impacts food security and diet quality during COVID-19.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Home food procurement (HFP) (i.e. gardening, fishing, foraging, hunting, backyard livestock and canning) have historically been important ways that people obtain food. Recently, some HFP activities have grown (e.g. gardening), while other activities (e.g. hunting) have become less common in the United States. Anecdotally, COVID-19 has sparked an increase in HFP evidenced by increased hunting licenses and shortages in seeds and canning supplies. HFP may have positive benefits for food security and diet quality, though research beyond gardening is especially limited in high-income countries.

Methods

We examine HFP activities since the COVID-19 pandemic began, and their relationship to food security and dietary quality using multivariable logit models and matching an

SUBMITTER: Niles MT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8131171 | biostudies-literature | 2021 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature