Justice and equity approaches to college and university student food (in)security: Introduction to the special section

According to myriad studies, college and university student food insecurity is a pervasive systemic problem. Most show that nearly half of students experience (Breuning et al., 2017; Broton, 2020; Nazmi, 2019). As defined by the U.S. Department Agriculture (USDA), “limited or uncertain availability nutritionally adequate safe foods, limited ability acquire acceptable foods in socially ways” (USDA Economic Research Service, 2022, para. 3). The insecurity, however, manifests various ways for students, including actuality being hungry, not having enough food, consuming poor-quality rationing, embarrassment stigma, consistent worry fear about accessing their next meal (Henry, 2020). .