Food banks should not be “normal” and yet they are rapidly becoming an accepted substitute for welfare in the UK.
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Social supermarkets help those struggling from food poverty – but they mask our broken food system.
Growing numbers of people are using food banks to feed themselves and their families. But many areas where residents face a high risk of food poverty are under-serviced.
Because some people find it difficult to comprehend…
Isolated older people living in poverty are suffering from food insecurity.
Low-income Canadians lack nutritious food options in part due to negative societal attitudes about them.
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
Billionaires who pledge their fortunes to charity must not just give big, but give better. It’s all about effective altruism
For more effective food policies, consult the public.
There are a number of efforts on the African continent aimed at helping people overcome food insecurity. Even though some progress has been made, the situation remains bleak.
Families are falling deeper into poverty when school holidays come, just to feed their children.
In Italy, a homeless man was excused by the supreme court for stealing food. In the UK, people living in poverty are fined for it.
Food banks feed more than just society’s vulnerable members.
Some of the most vulnerable people in society are being kept alive by food banks.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
Community kitchens that grew out of proud working class communities offer a way of feeding those struggling.
Feeding Britain, a new report of the All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger and Food Poverty, has been greeted with some fanfare. It details the full extent of the UK’s food poverty crisis and urges…
From celebrity chef Jamie Oliver’s Money Saving Meals to blogging mum Jack Monroe’s 100 Delicious Budget Recipes to the NHS Eat4Cheap campaign, eating well on a budget is now a national pastime. But research…
During the United Nations General Assembly meetings this week, Ban Ki-Moon has convened a high-level side event on the Zero Hunger Challenge. This initiative by the UN Secretary-General bears the tag line…
Two reports published this week should act as a wake-up call to the government and society at large, as welfare reforms drive millions of the most vulnerable in the UK into destitution. Oxfam’s “Below…
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Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Salford
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Alan Morris é um amigo do The Conversation.
Professor, Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Geography, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Social Policy, University of Birmingham
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Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham
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Senior Lecturer in Psychology of Appetite and Obesity, University of Liverpool
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Professor of Food and Social Policy, University of Warwick
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Head of Department of Clinical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Chester
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Senior Lecturer in Business and Economic History, University of Dundee
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PhD candidate, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer in Public Health, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW Sydney
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Associate Professor in History, Liverpool Hope University
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Associate Professor of Food Politics and Policy, The University of Melbourne
