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Articles on Food poverty
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Your view depends on whether you see poverty as the result of individual or policy failings.
Finding purpose outside of sport can contain a multitude of benefits for athletic performance – and mental health.
If children are not given the nutrition they need, there are long-term effects on their health.
Marcus Rashford has spoken eloquently about what happens when the government does not provide adequate support for food-insecure families. Children we interviewed said the same thing.
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
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.
While politicians ignore calls to raise Newstart, alarming levels of financial stress among private renters, particularly in low-rent outer suburbs, show why current welfare payments are too low.
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.
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.
Top contributors
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Lecturer of Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor in Human Geography, University of Sydney
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Professor, Institute of Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Food Policy, City, University of London
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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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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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Lecturer in Child and Family Health and Wellbeing, University of Sheffield
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Professor of Housing Research and Policy, and Associate Director, City Futures Research Centre, UNSW
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Associate Professor in History, Liverpool Hope University
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Senior Lecturer in Law, University of Liverpool
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Research Professor, Centre for Urban Transitions, Swinburne University of Technology
