Survey finds continued urban-rural food security gaps   

There continues to be a gap between rural and urban food security, according to the latest Purdue University Consumer Food Insights Report.

Jayson Lusk is the director of the Purdue Center for Food Demand Analysis and Sustainability,

“Rural households were more likely to be food insecure, meaning they had a hard time affording enough food to eat relative to urban households,” he says. “Going along with that, rural households also said that their overall satisfaction and happiness with their diets was lower than urban households.”

Fourteen percent of all households and 23 percent of rural households are facing food insecurity.

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