The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision A Financial, Social an
This short book reviews the provision of food bank and other emergency food aid provision with a specific focus on the UK, whilst drawing lessons from North America, Brazil and Europe. The authors look at the historical positioning of food aid and the gro
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Martin Caraher Sinéad Furey
The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision “Food Banks are modern day ‘canaries’ down the food mine. They are being used to give warnings yet also used to patch up food poverty. This book shows how to understand them, and why we need to redesign any food system which takes recourse to food banks.” —Tim Lang, Professor of Food Policy, Centre for Food Policy, City, University of London “Food banks are a Band-Aid that we, as a society, have developed to address the social, nutritional and health inequality that results from the food options of our less advantaged citizens. The impact of food poverty on health is enormous and the gap continues to grow for those on low incomes. This important book looks at the topic through a welfare economics lens i.e. how we allocate our resources. Food banks are a poor short-term ‘solution’ that, it is argued, make poor sense from economic and a societal and a health and wellbeing perspective.” —Dr. Cliodhna Foley-Nolan, Director of Human Health and Nutrition safefood “As governments rightly insist, national security is their first priority. Yet within the UK, The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision starkly reveals the social costs, neglected human rights and moral bankruptcy of its welfare reform policies when leaving the widespread hunger of its impoverished citizens to stigmatizing, ineffective food banking and the parallel charity economy. This is a critical and timely analysis with lessons for all affluent but austerity driven nation states.” —Graham Riches, Emeritus Professor of Social Work, University of British Columbia, USA, and author of Food Bank Nations (2018) “This book documents the rise in the number of foodbanks in the United Kingdom and challenges many of the commonly held views on the major problem of food insecurity in this country. The authors examine the issue from a broad perspective that looks at the impact of welfare economics and how the global food system with its food surpluses, may be viewed as part of the problem rather than a solution. This book is essential reading for those advocating for a sustainable food secure world, which has the right to freedom from hunger at its heart.” —Dr. Elizabeth Mitchell, Belfast Food Network, UK
Martin Caraher · Sinéad Furey
The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision A Financial, Social and Cultural Perspective
Martin Caraher Centre for Food Policy City, University of London London, UK
Sinéad Furey Ulster University Coleraine, UK
ISBN 978-3-319-78505-9 ISBN 978-3-319-78506-6 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78506-6 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018940758 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage
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