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Articles on Food poverty
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Food poverty is increasingly generating child victims, whose only salvation comes from donations of emergency food provisions.
While politicians ignore calls to raise Newstart, alarming levels of financial stress among private renters, particularly in low-rent outer suburbs, show why current welfare payments are too low.
British children left angry and bewildered by food poverty.
Food banks should not be “normal” and yet they are rapidly becoming an accepted substitute for welfare in the UK.
Social supermarkets help those struggling from food poverty – but they mask our broken food system.
Growing numbers of people are using food banks to feed themselves and their families. But many areas where residents face a high risk of food poverty are under-serviced.
Because some people find it difficult to comprehend…
Isolated older people living in poverty are suffering from food insecurity.
Low-income Canadians lack nutritious food options in part due to negative societal attitudes about them.
It could make women agents of change and development in Southeast Asia.
Billionaires who pledge their fortunes to charity must not just give big, but give better. It’s all about effective altruism
For more effective food policies, consult the public.
There are a number of efforts on the African continent aimed at helping people overcome food insecurity. Even though some progress has been made, the situation remains bleak.
Families are falling deeper into poverty when school holidays come, just to feed their children.
In Italy, a homeless man was excused by the supreme court for stealing food. In the UK, people living in poverty are fined for it.
Food banks feed more than just society’s vulnerable members.
Some of the most vulnerable people in society are being kept alive by food banks.
The government’s austerity programme hasn’t just put the poor under terrible pressure – it’s actually breached Britain’s international legal obligations.
Community kitchens that grew out of proud working class communities offer a way of feeding those struggling.
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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