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

ISBN-13: 9781138739758 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 204 str.

Graham Riches

Opis

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.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).