Placing Food Security in a Spatial Context Scott W. Allard Associate Professor, School of Social Service Administration Faculty Affiliate, Population Research Center University of Chicago sallard@uchicago.edu June 26, 2013 The author thanks Lucia Kaiser, Susan Parrish, Bruce Weber, and Emily Wolodiger for their contributions to this review. The author welcomes additional feedback and suggestions. This paper was commissioned for the Workshop on Research Gaps and Opportunities on the Causes and Consequences of Child Hunger. The workshop was convened by the Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board, on April 8-9, 2013 in Washington, DC with support from the Economic Research Service and the Food and Nutrition Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Opinions and statements included in the paper are solely those of the individual author, and are not necessarily adopted or endorsed or verified as accurate by the Committee on National Statistics and Food and Nutrition Board or the National Academy of Sciences, including the National Academy of Engineering, Institute of Medicine, or National Research Council.