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Impacts Of The First Year Of Covid-19 On Food Security In The New York’S Capital Region, Beth J. Feingold, Mariana M. Torres Arroyo, Akiko S. Hosler, Trevor Craft, Hnin Wai Lwin Myo, Christine T. Bozlak, Xiaobo Xue Romeiko, Natasha Pernicka, Peter Crasto-Donnelly, Amy Klein, Stacy Pettigrew, Ben Atwood, Roni Neff Oct 2021

Impacts Of The First Year Of Covid-19 On Food Security In The New York’S Capital Region, Beth J. Feingold, Mariana M. Torres Arroyo, Akiko S. Hosler, Trevor Craft, Hnin Wai Lwin Myo, Christine T. Bozlak, Xiaobo Xue Romeiko, Natasha Pernicka, Peter Crasto-Donnelly, Amy Klein, Stacy Pettigrew, Ben Atwood, Roni Neff

Environmental Health Sciences Faculty Scholarship

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted people's lives and food systems in the United States and worldwide, resulting in impacts on different aspects of food security. To understand how this has affected households in New York’s Capital Region, we conducted two concurrent anonymous online surveys between October 2020 and February 2021. Combined, 1049 people responded to these surveys.

We report on respondents' food security experiences since the COVID-19 pandemic started in New York State (March 7, 2020) compared to the prior year. We further explore the differential impacts of the pandemic on food security experiences by race and ethnicity, household income, …