| Description |
1 online resource (225 pages) |
| Series |
Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Ser |
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Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment Ser
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of illustrations; Acronyms and initialisms; Preface and acknowledgements; Foreword; 1. Introduction; Wasted food for hungry people; Why food matters; Food as a political matter; Food as an 'intimate' commodity; Food deprivation as social exclusion and injustice; Health and financial costs to society; Food banking, early days; Food bank nations, today; The right to food; Book outline; PART I: Domestic hunger to charitable food banking; 2. Food poverty and rich world hunger; Thinking about food poverty and access to food |
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Prevalence of food insecurityPersistence of domestic hunger; Who is hungry and why; Reflections; 3. Rise of food bank nations; The legacy of charity and food safety nets; US food bank origins and institutionalization; Crossing OECD national borders; Entrenching food charity safety net; Public Food Aid -- MDP and FEAD; Reflections; PART II: Corporate capture; 4. Corporate capture to rich world consolidation; Big Food and corporate partners; Bread and circuses; Mixed media messages; Corporate capture: hunger as a charitable business; Reflections |
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5. Corporate food waste: manufacturing surplus foodFood waste: the imperative to act; Thinking about food waste food and surplus food; Prevalence of rich world food waste; Waste along the food value chain; Food waste manufacturing the surplus food agenda; Corporate food waste, symptom not a cure; Reflections; 6. Corporate food banking: solution or problem; Thinking about food charity as the primary response to hunger; Big philanthropy; An effective solution?; A continuing problem?; Reflections; 7. Corporate food charity: false promises of solidarity; Solidarity: the moral imperative |
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'Uncritical' solidarity: hidden functions, false promisesShaming the hungry, regulating the poor; Taking the politics out of hunger: who benefits and why; Reflections; PART III: Rights talk and public policy; 8. Collective solidarity and the right to food: moral, legal and political obligations; World Food Summits and Right to Food Guidelines; Thinking about solidarity and food banking; Critical and collective solidarity: we are all rights holders; Why the right to food in international law matters; State accountability: resetting the moral compass; Reflections |
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9. Public accountability and the right to food: international monitoring to the rescueFood, as a matter of human rights; The state as 'primary duty bearer'; Mainstreaming the right to food: international mechanisms; Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food: in the rich world; Monitoring the right to food: Periodic Reviews; Reflections; 10. Civil society with a right to food bite: reclaiming public policy; 'Rights' talk; Rich world compliance with the right to food, or not; The non-compliant indifferent State; Civil society advocacy: holding the State to account; Reflections |
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PART IV: Gathering political will |
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Print version record |
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Food banks -- Developed countries
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Food security -- Developed countries
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Poverty -- Developed countries
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Social responsibility of business -- Developed countries
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Food banks
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Food security
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Poverty
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Social responsibility of business
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Developed countries
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781351729871 |
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135172987X |
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