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New research on rural New Englanders shows that gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, raising poultry and\/or livestock, and other home and wild food production (HWFP) activities are important tools for maintaining food security through extreme events, such as pandemics or climate change events.<\/p>\n

University of Vermont and University of Maine researchers, led by Nutrition and Food Sciences Associate Professor Meredith Niles, found that both food insecurity and HWFP increased significantly during the COVID-19 pandemic, and those who undertook HWFP activities exhibited improved food security nine to 12 months later.<\/p>\n

The UVM research team included Meredith Niles, Ashley McCarthy, Sam Bliss, Emily Belarmino, Scott Merrill, Sarah Nowak, Jennifer Laurent, Farryl Bertmann, and Rebecca Mitchell. Read more about the research here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

New research on rural New Englanders shows that gardening, hunting, fishing, foraging, raising poultry and\/or livestock, and other home and wild food production (HWFP) activities are important tools for maintaining food security through extreme events, such as pandemics or climate change events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7974,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,28,14],"tags":[22,19],"class_list":["post-4120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cals","category-faculty","category-research","tag-food-systems","tag-nfs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2050,"url":"https:\/\/site.uvm.edu\/cals-news\/national-academy-of-medicine-names-meredith-niles-an-emerging-leader-in-health-and-medicine\/","url_meta":{"origin":4120,"position":0},"title":"National Academy of Medicine Names Meredith Niles An Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine","author":"CALS Communications","date":"September 29, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Meredith Niles, associate professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences, has been named an Emerging Leader in Health and Medicine by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM). 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