Hungry Britain : ǂthe ǂrise of food charity

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. Book jacket Contents List of figures List of abbreviations Acknowledgements Foreword 1. Introduction The importance of studying the rise of food charity and household food insecurity A progressive approach to food insecurity and food charity 2. Hunger and charitable emergency food provision in the UK and beyond The rise and distinctiveness of modern food charity in the UK Emergency food provision terminology Food charity and food insecurity in other rich countries: what can we learn from international evidence? Food insecurity definition and measurement UK food charity and household food security policy context Food and social policy Food charity and the changing welfare state 3. Theories of the food insecurity ‘problem’ and the right to food ‘solution’ A theory of food insecurity The human right to food Theoretical framework Conclusion: food insecurity and the right to food 4. Food charity: the ‘other’ food system Identifying an ‘other’ system Moral imperatives in emergency food systems Emergency food retaining ‘market’ qualities Emergency food experienced as ‘other’ Conclusion 5. The sustainability of food charity Organisational agency in the food system Recipient agency in emergency food systems Conclusion 6. Food charity as caring Need for emergency food Success of emergency food projects Responsibility for care Conclusion 7. Food charity and the changing welfare state Welfare reform and the welfare state Food banks and the welfare state: the relationship The impact of welfare reform Where next? The future relationship between food banks and the welfare state Conclusion 8. Conclusion Advancing knowledge of emergency food provision in the UK Opportunities in crisis: towards conclusions The utility of the right to food Roles and responsibilities of stakeholders Final conclusions Recommendations References Index Examining the prolific growth of UK charitable emergency food provision over the past 15 years, 'Hungry Britain' uses the human right to food as a pathway to developing solutions to food poverty. Hannah Lambie-Mumford draws on data from the country's two largest charitable food providers to explore the effectiveness of this emerging system of food acquisition, its enduring sustainability, and, most importantly, where responsibility lies for ensuring that all people can realise their human right to food. She shows that the increasing tendency of charitable food providers to take responsibility for protecting people against food poverty occurs in tandem with significant cuts to the welfare state-cuts shaping both the need for and nature of emergency food provision Drawing on empirical research with the UK’s two largest food banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last fifteen years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. Drawing on empirical research with the UK's two largest Food Banks, this book explores the prolific rise of food charity over the last 15 years and its implications for overcoming food insecurity. Hannah Lambie-mumford. Includes Bibliographical References (pages 153-169) And Index.