Evidence map›Paper›PMID 36317194›Full record

ArticleResources, conservation, and recycling2023

Digital food sharing and food insecurity in the COVID-19 era.

Tamar Makov, Tamar Meshulam, Mehmet Cansoy, Alon Shepon, Juliet B Schor

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Article in Resources, conservation, and recycling, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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3citing papers in PubMed
4.8field-weighted citation impact, top 5% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

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3 citing papers in PubMed, 37 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 4 institutions in 2 countries.

Tamar MakovGuilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
Tamar MeshulamGuilford Glazer Faculty of Business and Management, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Be'er Sheva, 8410501, Israel.
Mehmet CansoyDepartment of Sociology, Fairfield University, Fairfield, CT, 06824, United States of America.
Alon SheponThe Porter School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 6997801, Israel.
Juliet B SchorDepartment of Sociology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, 02467, United States of America.
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev · ILBoston College · USFairfield University · USTel Aviv University · IL

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Sharing food surplus via the digital sharing economy is often discussed as a promising strategy to reduce food waste and mitigate food insecurity at the same time. Yet if and how the global pandemic has affected digital food sharing are not yet well understood. Leveraging a comprehensive dataset covering over 1.8 million food exchanges facilitated by a popular peer-to-peer food sharing platform, we find that UK activity levels not only rose during the Covid-19 pandemic, but outperformed projections. A potential explanation for this growth might be the rise of food insecurity during the pandemic. Yet examining the sociodemographic characteristics of platform users, average user activity and food exchanges before and during the pandemic, we find no compelling evidence that the platform's pandemic-era growth results from a large influx of food insecure users. Instead, we poist that the growth in digital food sharing relates to lifestyle changes potentially triggered by the pandemic.

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Circular economyCOVID-19Food insecurityFood wastePeer-to-peerSharing economy

Identifiers

PMID36317194
PMCPMC9606032
OpenAlexW4307445987

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