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The Right to Food in the United States: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

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  • Craig Gundersen

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The “right to food” has been formally implemented in some countries and, in other contexts, it is used as an exhortation for governments or other entities to take actions to reduce food insecurity. Central to any comprehensive set of policies to reduce food insecurity are food assistance programs directed towards vulnerable households. One example of such a food assistance program is in the United States, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP, formerly known as the Food Stamp Program). I begin by discussing one measure of a right to food, namely, to be free from food insecurity and then turn to a consideration the role of SNAP in meeting this goal. To do so, I cover five components that would seem to be essential to any definition of a right to food and how SNAP does and does not meet these components.

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  • Craig Gundersen, 2019. "The Right to Food in the United States: The Role of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, vol. 101(5), pages 1328-1336.
    • Handle: RePEc:oup:ajagec:v:101:y:2019:i:5:p:1328-1336.
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    1. Seung Jin Cho & Brent Kreider & John V. Winters, 2023. "Resource booms, state economic conditions, and child food security," Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 45(3), pages 1734-1752, September.
    2. Suttles, Shellye A. & Babb, Angela & Knudsen, Daniel, 2022. "Submitted and Denied: Understanding Variation in Case Status Across Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) Applications," 2022 Annual Meeting, July 31-August 2, Anaheim, California 322195, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    3. Codjia, Clement Olivier, 2022. "Impacts of In-Kind Transfers Size Boosts on Eligible Food Expenditures in the United States," International Journal of Food and Agricultural Economics (IJFAEC), Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University, Department of Economics and Finance, vol. 10(4), October.
    4. Naylor, Jamie & Deaton, B. James & Ker, Alan, 2020. "Assessing the effect of food retail subsidies on the price of food in remote Indigenous communities in Canada," Food Policy, Elsevier, vol. 93(C).
    5. Wei, Min-Fang & Gundersen, Craig G., 2023. "Does the choice of eligibility metric influence the relationship between SNAP and food insecurity?," 2023 Annual Meeting, July 23-25, Washington D.C. 335873, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association.
    6. Christopher B. Barrett, 2021. "Overcoming Global Food Security Challenges through Science and Solidarity," American Journal of Agricultural Economics, John Wiley & Sons, vol. 103(2), pages 422-447, March.

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