Food pantries, the providers of services to the homeless and similar organizations now face enormous challenges.
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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.
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 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
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.
The UK is on the tipping point of a humanitarian emergency. To tackle this the government must now give more money to local authorities.
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.
Our research has found that staff discussions of Christianity in food banks may put people off using them.
Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
A survey of food bank users found nearly 60% couldn’t afford to adequately heat their homes.
Reducing food waste by feeding hungry Canadians is a simplistic solution that is deeply problematic and morally distressing.
British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
Food banks should not be “normal” and yet they are rapidly becoming an accepted substitute for welfare in the UK.
Two bills currently before the British parliament seek to reduce the 12 month ban on asylum seekers from working.
What have Gypsies ever done for the UK? There’s metalwork, art, music, boxing, equine expertise, skilled labour … food bank donations.
Getting into the Christmas spirit means buying stuff. But how much is too much?
New research shows high numbers of people in the UK are working multiple low-paid jobs.
I made a film about people using food banks in the hope that their voices will be heard far and wide.
The rising cost of energy and housing can leave little money to put nutritious food on the table.
Food is just food … or is it?
Top contributors
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Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Salford
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Associate Professor of Nutrition Science, Purdue University
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Professor of Health Studies, Queen's University, Ontario
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Research Fellow in the Department of Health Sciences, University of York
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Assistant Professor, Faculty of Land and Food Systems, University of British Columbia
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President, Food Secure Canada
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Professor of Anthropology, University of South Florida
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Lecturer in Nutrition, King's College London
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Associate Professor of Health Equity, Deakin University
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Assistant Professor of Dietetics and Nutrition, University of Dayton
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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Director, Rudd Center for Food Policy and Health and Professor, Human Development and Family Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Associate Professor of Allied Health Sciences, University of Connecticut
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Professor of International Politics, Queen Mary University of London
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Professor of Marketing, University of Birmingham
