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The first in a series of Webinars aimed at exploring how Open Data can be used to alleviate food poverty and insecurity, focusing on the United Kingdom.

Household food insecurity, or food poverty, is an ongoing challenge in the United Kingdom. There has been no systematic measurement of this growing public health and social justice problem until recently, with much data yet to be released. When the data are shared in early 2021, it will be at coarse geographic scales that will not allow for local planning of activities to address food poverty.

To address this knowledge gap, a team of researchers and experts at the University of Southampton have been developing a series of tools and projects to facilitate mapping and sharing of spatial open data, aimed at better informing local government and third sector/civil society.

The team are responsible for initiatives such as mylocalmap, a publishing platform for food poverty risk measures, devised in collaboration with Southampton City Council and agricultural policy advocates Sustain; and CITISCAPE, a citizen science-based project enabling direct feedback between young adults and the City Council regarding their local built environment.

The mylocalmap tool, in particular, was designed to reduce risk of food poverty in localised areas across England; it uses regularly updated open data on benefits claimants, as well as demographic risk factors, identified through qualitative research. The team is in the process of updating the risk measure for area classifications, to account for specific local challenges and influences, and smaller units (LSOAs). The measure is already used in local resource allocation, Joint Strategic Needs Assessments (JSNAs) and food poverty action plans.