Hungry Britain

The rise of food charity

Lambie-Mumford, Hannah, Hannah Lambie-Mumford

• Publisher: Policy Press
• Year: 2017
• eBook ISBN: 9781447328322
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Politics & International Relations
• Subtopic: Agricultural Public Policy
• Index: Politics & International Relations

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.

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Table of contents

• Coverpage
• Title page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• List of figures
• List of abbreviations
• Acknowledgements
• Foreword
• one Introduction
• two Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond
• three Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’
• four Food charity: the ‘other’ food system
• five The sustainability of food charity
• six Food charity as caring
• seven Food charity and the changing welfare state
• eight Conclusion
• References