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Achieving a 'Right to Food' in the U.S.

Event Type
Informational
Sponsor
Campus Honors Program
Location
TBA
Date
Feb 6, 2020   5:15 - 6:30 pm  
Speaker
Craig Gundersen, ACES Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergrad Studies
Cost
Free; Includes Light Dinner
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E-Mail
chp@illinois.edu
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There is not a legislatively stipulated “right to food” in the United States but there is an extensive food assistance safety net that guarantees at least some conception of a “right to food” for all Americans, namely being free from food insecurity.  In this presentation, Craig Gunderson begins with by covering the measurement and determinants of food insecurity.  He will then focus on the largest food assistance program in the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and its essential role in alleviating food insecurity and that it does so in ways that are consistent with at least some definitions of what constitutes a “right to food”. 

Craig Gundersen is ACES Distinguished Professor and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics at the University of Illinois, is on the Technical Advisory Group for Feeding America, is the lead researcher on Feeding America’s Map the Meal Gap project, and is the Managing Editor for Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy.  He is also a Round Table Member of the Farm Foundation, a Non-Resident Senior Fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Wilson Sheehan Lab for Economic Opportunities (LEO) at the University of Notre Dame.  His research concentrates on the causes and consequences of food insecurity and on the evaluation of food assistance programs, with an emphasis on SNAP.

 

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