SEED
Social Aspects of Nutrition: Causes, Determinants and Effects of Food Poverty in Germany and Policy Options
Brief description:
To date, neither the extent of material and social food poverty in the German population is known, nor is it possible to answer the question of what role material and social food poverty plays in explaining vertical and horizontal inequalities in indicators of dietary quality and health.
The research project ‘Social Aspects of Nutrition: Causes, Determinants and Effects of Food Poverty in Germany and Policy Options’ (SEED) comprises three sub-studies. In the first sub-study, the pilot study ‘Access of population groups at risk of poverty to nutrition and health research’ (ZAZU), different recruitment and data collection methods are compared using a standardised data collection of approx. 400 people in Stuttgart and the most effective measures for population groups at risk of poverty are identified. Previously unrecorded indicators of material food poverty are also being identified. In the sub-study ‘Determining and recording social food poverty (BESSER)’, results of the “Multidisciplinary study of the health and nutritional status of persons living in households at risk of poverty with children in Germany” (MEGA_kids) and a literature research are used to identify and optimise items for measuring social food poverty before the content of the survey instrument is subsequently validated by experts. In the main study ‘Material and social food poverty in the German population’ (MASERI), the prevalence of material and social food poverty in the German population is determined via a standardised survey of a unbiased sample of approx. 2,000 people and the relationships between food poverty, diet quality, health indicators and monetary and non-monetary resources are investigated. Finally, the question is answered as to whether monitoring of material and social food poverty appears appropriate and how this should be organised.
Duration of the project:
01.06.2025 - 31.05.2028
Project team:
Lena Steinle
Prof. Nanette Ströbele-Benschop, Ph.D.
In cooperation with:
Funding:
With support from: Federal Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Regional Identity
Project manager: Federal Office for Agriculture and Food