Food Bank Nations - Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food

Zusatztext 94341511 Informationen zum Autor Graham Riches is Emeritus Professor and former Director of the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. As author and co-editor he has published widely on rich world domestic hunger, social policy and the right to food including Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis (1985); First World Hunger (1997) and First World Hunger Revisited (2014). Klappentext While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. Zusammenfassung While recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people, this book challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction: wasted food for hungry people Part I DOMESTIC HUNGER to CHARITABLE FOOD BANKING 2. Food poverty and rich world hunger 3. The rise of Food Bank Nations Part II CORPORATE CAPTURE 4. Corporate capture and rich world consolidation 5. Corporate food waste manufacturing surplus food 6. Corporate food banking: solution or problem 7. Corporate food charity: false promises of solidarity Part III RIGHTS TALK and PUBLIC POLICY 8. Collective Solidarity and the Right to food: moral, legal and political obligations 9. Public Accountability and the Right to Food: international monitoring to the rescue 10. Civil society with a right to food bite: reclaiming public policy Part IV GATHERING POLITICAL WILL 11. Changing the conversation: challenging propositions

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• Authors: Graham Riches, Graham (University of British Columbia Riches, Riches Graham
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2018
• EAN: 9781138739758
• ISBN: 978-1-138-73975-8
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment; Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Biology > Ecology; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); NATURE / Ecology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Poverty & Homelessness, Food & society, Science / Environmental Science, Food security & supply, Cultural studies: food and society, Charities, Voluntary Services & Philanthropy, Charities, voluntary services and philanthropy, Food security and supply