Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth

The Western Australian community faces increasing numbers of people vulnerable to food insecurity due to their economic or social circumstance. This is partly due to geographic isolation and the cost of food, as well as the demise of the mining boom and a stalled economy. For example, food c...

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Main Authors: Pollard, Christina, Booth, Sue, Begley, Andrea, Kerr, Deborah, Jancey, Jonine
Format: Journal Article
Published: Council to Homeless Persons 2016
Online Access:https://chp.org.au/parity/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80333
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description The Western Australian community faces increasing numbers of people vulnerable to food insecurity due to their economic or social circumstance. This is partly due to geographic isolation and the cost of food, as well as the demise of the mining boom and a stalled economy. For example, food costs more in remote areas, 26 per cent more for a healthy food basket than in the Perth metropolitan area. Welfare dependent families in WA would need to spend 44 per cent of their disposable income to purchase a healthy diet compared to only 14 per cent average income earners.1 This simply does not happen, as food is the one area families can sacrifice to pay for other expenditures
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-803332020-09-08T06:23:42Z Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth Pollard, Christina Booth, Sue Begley, Andrea Kerr, Deborah Jancey, Jonine The Western Australian community faces increasing numbers of people vulnerable to food insecurity due to their economic or social circumstance. This is partly due to geographic isolation and the cost of food, as well as the demise of the mining boom and a stalled economy. For example, food costs more in remote areas, 26 per cent more for a healthy food basket than in the Perth metropolitan area. Welfare dependent families in WA would need to spend 44 per cent of their disposable income to purchase a healthy diet compared to only 14 per cent average income earners.1 This simply does not happen, as food is the one area families can sacrifice to pay for other expenditures 2016 Journal Article http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80333 https://chp.org.au/parity/ Council to Homeless Persons fulltext
spellingShingle Pollard, Christina
Booth, Sue
Begley, Andrea
Kerr, Deborah
Jancey, Jonine
Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title_full Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title_fullStr Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title_full_unstemmed Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title_short Working in partnership with the Charitable Food Sector to Better meet the Food Needs of People in Perth
title_sort working in partnership with the charitable food sector to better meet the food needs of people in perth
url https://chp.org.au/parity/
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/80333