Food insecurity gained ground in 2022. According to the results of a survey by the Research Center for the Study and Observation of Living Conditions (Crédoc) published on Wednesday May 17, 16% of the French declared at the end of the year past not “have enough to eat.” A rate that increased four points between July 2022 and November 2022.
At the same time, the rate of French people saying they can “eat all the food they want” rose from 44% to 39% over the same period. In April 2016, this rate was 50%.
24% of young people concerned
“Food insufficiency”, on the rise in recent years, has experienced a “sudden increase” since 2022 and “is found in all sociodemographic categories”, the study can read.
“High inflation, particularly in food products, explains at least in part the increase in this form of precariousness. Three quarters of the affected people cite lack of money as the reason for their situation”, explains Crédoc.
Almost one in four young people under the age of 25 (24%) is in “quantitative food insufficiency”. .
The Crédoc highlights that food insecurity “adds to other forms of fragility”, such as housing, relational isolation “and more particularly health”.
“People who report suffering from a disability, a chronic illness or a long-term condition, or who report that their state of health is unsatisfactory, are more likely to be without food than people who say they are in good health,” he warns. the Credoc.
Source: BFM TV
