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Articles on Food poverty
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Teachers’ main justification for running a food bank was the moral imperative to support families who needed it.
South Africa’s social relief grant has enabled recipients to search for work or start small businesses.
Nigeria needs to adopt a multi-faceted approach that addresses the root causes of child malnutrition.
Punishing parents of truant children misses factors – such as poverty and hunger – keeping some children out of school.
The food theft crisis is framed as a threat to paying customers. This furthers the divide between those who can still afford groceries and those who cannot.
A healthy diet in line with the Australian Dietary Guidelines is cheaper than an unhealthy diet. Switching could save $160 off a family of four’s fortnightly shopping bill.
Researchers spent months volunteering with Fans Supporting Foodbanks to see how left-behind communities were fighting food poverty.
A ‘right to grow’ law encouraging more locally-grown food could boost health, community pride and food supply resilience.
Wheat accounts for about 20% of human calorie consumption, and Russia and Ukraine are both major exporters. The war could hit household food supplies in countries as far apart as Egypt and Indonesia.
The most vulnerable in society have been hit hard by the pandemic when it comes to getting enough to eat. So what can be done?
A team of experts are projecting that after a steep increase in 2020, food insecurity rates will dip in 2021. But behind this is a racial gap – rates for Black Americans will remain stubbornly high.
Food insecurity affected many students even before the pandemic hit, with international students the worst hit. But students and universities have shown a lot can be done to end the problem.
Interviews with a diverse range of young people in Edinburgh and London, aged 18-26, reveal their experiences both before and during the pandemic.
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
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Lecturer in Social Policy, University of Salford
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Professor of Community Health and Wellbeing, The University of Queensland
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Accredited Practising Dietitian and Lecturer, Southern Cross University
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Coordinator: Feeding 9 Billion at the Arrell Food Institute, University of Guelph
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Lecturer in Law, University of Birmingham
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Director of the Centre for Ethics, Philosophy and Public Affairs, University of St Andrews
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Research fellow, Coventry University
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Professor of Business Analytics, UNSW
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Head of Department of Clinical Sciences & Nutrition, University of Chester
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Research Fellow in Non-Traditional Security Studies at RSIS, Nanyang Technological University
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Assistant Professor, London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine
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Professor and Head of Division Human Nutrition at the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Stellenbosch University
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Associate Professor in History, Liverpool Hope University
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Principle dietitian at the Nutrition Information Centre, Stellenbosch University
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Professor in Human Geography, University of Sydney