Food Banks And The Welfare Crisis

Author : Graham Riches,Canadian Council on Social Development
Publisher : James Lorimer & Company
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0888103638

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Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis by Graham Riches,Canadian Council on Social Development Pdf

This document discusses the rise of the food banks, the collapse of thesocial safety net, the view that voluntarism is the way ahead and optionsfor social security in Canada beyond the limits of today's public safetynet. Research was conducted by interviews with directors of the largerfood banks, representatives of participating churches and non-governmentorganizations, social welfare academics, government officials, members oflabour organizations and political parties, members of anti-povertyorganizations. A literature search of both U.S. and Canadian sources, publicmeetings, conferences, and national radio and television programmes wascarried out. An extensive bibliography is included.

Author : Graham Riches
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Food banks
ISBN : 0888103689

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Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis by Graham Riches Pdf

Author : Graham Riches
Publisher : Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Corporate social responsibility
ISBN : 1138739758

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Food Bank Nations by Graham Riches Pdf

While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty.

Author : Lambie-Mumford, Hannah,Silvasti, Tiina
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-09-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447347569

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The Rise of Food Charity in Europe by Lambie-Mumford, Hannah,Silvasti, Tiina Pdf

As the demand for food banks and other emergency food charities continues to rise across the continent, this is the first systematic Europe-wide study of the roots and consequences of this urgent phenomenon. Leading researchers provide case studies from the UK, Finland, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Slovenia and Spain, each considering the history and driving political and social forces behind the rise of food charity, and the influence of changing welfare states. They build into a rich comparative study that delivers valuable evidence for anyone with an academic or professional interest in related issues including social policy, exclusion, poverty and justice.

Author : G. Riches,T. Silvasti
Publisher : Springer
Page : 432 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2014-09-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781137298737

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First World Hunger Revisited by G. Riches,T. Silvasti Pdf

Is food aid the way of the future? What are the prospects for integrated public policies informed by the right to food? First World Hunger Revisited investigates the rise of food charity and corporately sponsored food banks as effective and sustainable responses to increasing hunger and food poverty in twelve rich 'food-secure' societies.

Author : Lambie-Mumford, Hannah
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447328322

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Hungry Britain by Lambie-Mumford, Hannah Pdf

Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest charitable food organisations, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. As the welfare state withdraws, leaving food banks to protect the most vulnerable, the author questions the sustainability of this system and asks where responsibility lies - in practice and in theory - for ensuring everyone can realise their human right to food. The book argues that effective, policy-driven solutions require a clear rights-based framework, which enables a range of actors including the state, charities and the food industry to work together towards, and be held accountable for, the progressive realisation of the right to food for all in the UK.

Author : Andrew Fisher
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2018-04-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780262535168

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Big Hunger by Andrew Fisher Pdf

How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality. Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “emergency food system” became an industry. In Big Hunger, Andrew Fisher takes a critical look at the business of hunger and offers a new vision for the anti-hunger movement. From one perspective, anti-hunger leaders have been extraordinarily effective. Food charity is embedded in American civil society, and federal food programs have remained intact while other anti-poverty programs have been eliminated or slashed. But anti-hunger advocates are missing an essential element of the problem: economic inequality driven by low wages. Reliant on corporate donations of food and money, anti-hunger organizations have failed to hold business accountable for offshoring jobs, cutting benefits, exploiting workers and rural communities, and resisting wage increases. They have become part of a “hunger industrial complex” that seems as self-perpetuating as the more famous military-industrial complex. Fisher lays out a vision that encompasses a broader definition of hunger characterized by a focus on public health, economic justice, and economic democracy. He points to the work of numerous grassroots organizations that are leading the way in these fields as models for the rest of the anti-hunger sector. It is only through approaches like these that we can hope to end hunger, not just manage it.

Author : Maggie Dickinson
Publisher : University of California Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-11-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520307667

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Feeding the Crisis by Maggie Dickinson Pdf

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as food stamps, is one of the most controversial forms of social welfare in the United States. Although it’s commonly believed that such federal programs have been cut back since the 1980s, Maggie Dickinson charts the dramatic expansion and reformulation of the food safety net in the twenty-first century. Today, receiving SNAP benefits is often tied to work requirements, which essentially subsidizes low-wage jobs. Excluded populations—such as the unemployed, informally employed workers, and undocumented immigrants—must rely on charity to survive. Feeding the Crisis tells the story of eight families as they navigate the terrain of an expanding network of assistance programs in which care and abandonment work hand in hand to make access to food uncertain for people on the social and economic margins. Amid calls at the federal level to expand work requirements for food assistance, Dickinson shows us how such ideas are bad policy that fail to adequately address hunger in America. Feeding the Crisis brings the voices of food-insecure families into national debates about welfare policy, offering fresh insights into how we can establish a right to food in the United States.

Author : Niall Cooper
Publisher : Oxfam
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781780773346

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Walking the Breadline by Niall Cooper Pdf

Author : Kayleigh Garthwaite
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2016-06-14
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781447329114

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Hunger Pains by Kayleigh Garthwaite Pdf

In the years since the UK Government embarked on its harsh austerity program, food poverty has become a major issue, and food banks have been forced into a major role in the lives of countless citizens. This book is built on hundreds of hours of interviews with the people who rely on food banks today, as well as with the volunteers who keep them running on tight budgets and in difficult conditions. Kayleigh Garthwaite brings to the book her own experience volunteering in a food bank, and the result is a close-up, empathetic, politically potent portrait of a sadly essential part of daily life in today's Britain.

Author : Jamie Brownlee,Chris Hurl,Kevin Walby
Publisher : Between the Lines
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781771133593

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Corporatizing Canada by Jamie Brownlee,Chris Hurl,Kevin Walby Pdf

Author : Mary Rawlinson,Caleb Ward
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317595502

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The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics by Mary Rawlinson,Caleb Ward Pdf

While the history of philosophy has traditionally given scant attention to food and the ethics of eating, in the last few decades the subject of food ethics has emerged as a major topic, encompassing a wide array of issues, including labor justice, public health, social inequity, animal rights and environmental ethics. This handbook provides a much needed philosophical analysis of the ethical implications of the need to eat and the role that food plays in social, cultural and political life. Unlike other books on the topic, this text integrates traditional approaches to the subject with cutting edge research in order to set a new agenda for philosophical discussions of food ethics. The Routledge Handbook of Food Ethics is an outstanding reference source to the key topics, problems and debates in this exciting subject and is the first collection of its kind. Comprising over 35 chapters by a team of international contributors, the Handbook is divided into 7 parts: the phenomenology of food gender and food food and cultural diversity liberty, choice and food policy food and the environment farming and eating other animals food justice Essential reading for students and researchers in food ethics, it is also an invaluable resource for those in related disciplines such as environmental ethics and bioethics.

Author : Graham Riches
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2018-04-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351729864

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Food Bank Nations by Graham Riches Pdf

In the world’s most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food. The book’s unifying theme is understanding the food bank nation as a powerful metaphor for the deep hole at the centre of neoliberalism, illustrating: the de-politicization of hunger; the abandonment of social rights; the stigma of begging and loss of human dignity; broken social safety nets; the dysfunctional food system; the shift from income security to charitable food relief; and public policy neglect. It exposes the hazards of corporate food philanthropy and the moral vacuum within negligent governments and their lack of public accountability. The advocacy of civil society with a right to food bite is urgently needed to gather political will and advance ‘joined-up’ policies and courses of action to ensure food security for all.

Author : Martin Caraher,Sinéad Furey
Publisher : Springer
Page : 111 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-26
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783319785066

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The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision by Martin Caraher,Sinéad Furey Pdf

This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the growth of the food aid sector in the UK following the period of austerity 2007-2012, before addressing the causes of food insecurity and concluding that food banks are a symptom of austerity and government inaction which fail to tackle the underlying causes of food poverty. The research is timely, and considers a range of disciplines and practices. This book will appeal to researchers, policy makers and practitioners food economics, welfare economics, public policy, public health, food studies, nutrition, and the wider social sciences.

Author : Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio,Esther M. Rebato Ochoa
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2022-05-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030936006

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Ethics of Charitable Food by Leire Escajedo San-Epifanio,Esther M. Rebato Ochoa Pdf

This book provides an in-depth analysis of different dimensions of contemporary food charity. It does so against the background of an increasing number of food banks and other forms of food philanthropy. The book examines the incongruity of considering food donation as an expression of 'pure altruism'. Taking into account the dignity and rights of people, it addresses how hunger is seen and explained in rich countries and how philanthropy and democracy coexist. It looks at the relationship that exists between religious traditions and the current food donation narrative. It discusses the risks of stigmatizing food recipients, and clarifies ways to better deal with food poverty and food waste. Paradoxically, food insecurity and food waste have grown exponentially in the last decade. More and more people are not able to access food properly. The amount of perfectly edible food that is discarded also grows. The consolidation of democracies, welfare policies, and economic growth do not guarantee that all citizens can meet their basic needs in the so-called rich countries. This book analyses the current state of affairs and presents facts and reflections from diverse sources and from a cross-disciplinary perspective.