Volunteers distributing food in Valley Stream, New York.
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Food pantries, the providers of services to the homeless and similar organizations now face enormous challenges.
The 100 days of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the strengths and weaknesses of our food system, including the treatment of migrant labourers.
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COVID-19 has given society a teachable moment, and we should now establish the policies, programs and technologies to ensure our food system becomes stronger, more resilient and more equitable.
Boxes wait to be filled with provisions at The Daily Bread Food Bank warehouse in Toronto.
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The ability of food banks to meet the needs of food insecure Canadians has plummeted just when it is needed most. But food banks have never been able to address the reason people are going hungry.
The Food Foundation now estimates at least three million people in the UK depend on food banks.
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The government is focusing on the market to feed the UK but to avoid long-term risks and short-term emergencies a UK food plan is needed now
A person holds a sign through the sunroof of a car in support of health-care workers outside St. Paul’s Hospital in Vancouver, on April 5, 2020.
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The COVID-19 pandemic is affecting everyone to some degree, and many people are looking for ways to help others. Here are some ways people can contribute to the response effort.
This outbreak is going to show how decimated the UK’s welfare system is, and how it is the most vulnerable in society that will suffer the most.
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The UK is on the tipping point of a humanitarian emergency. To tackle this the government must now give more money to local authorities.
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All eggs in supermarket Morrisons will soon be free range. But this – and other measures intended to promote ethical consumption – could impact badly on the worst off.
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Our research has found that staff discussions of Christianity in food banks may put people off using them.
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Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
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A survey of food bank users found nearly 60% couldn’t afford to adequately heat their homes.
Giving food that would otherwise go to landfill to hungry people does little to ensure the well-being of Canadians who are food insecure.
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Reducing food waste by feeding hungry Canadians is a simplistic solution that is deeply problematic and morally distressing.
Children are growing up hungry across Britain.
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British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
Volunteers prepare food parcels for vulnerable individuals and families at the Black Country Food Bank.
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Food banks should not be “normal” and yet they are rapidly becoming an accepted substitute for welfare in the UK.
Ready to get to work.
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Two bills currently before the British parliament seek to reduce the 12 month ban on asylum seekers from working.
Gypsies’ generosity is often overlooked.
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What have Gypsies ever done for the UK? There’s metalwork, art, music, boxing, equine expertise, skilled labour … food bank donations.
Can I get away with this amount of presents?
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Getting into the Christmas spirit means buying stuff. But how much is too much?
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New research shows high numbers of people in the UK are working multiple low-paid jobs.
Turn to the food bank.
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I made a film about people using food banks in the hope that their voices will be heard far and wide.
If you worry about where your next meal will come from, you’re not “food secure”.
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The rising cost of energy and housing can leave little money to put nutritious food on the table.
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Food is just food … or is it?