Since 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corporate-backed food aid programs are now entrenched 'solutions' to hunger. But who really benefits from them?
Kayleigh Garthwaite travelled across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programs, and how institutionalising charitable food aid absolves governments of their responsibility to ensure that people have a right to food.
As hunger and inequality continue to rise within advanced capitalist countries, this issue is more urgent than ever.
Kayleigh Garthwaite proposes radical key policies for governments and explores alternative community-led responses grounded in solidarity, not charity, to end the need for food aid before the indignity of food banks becomes completely normalised.
Introduction: Charitable food aid in ‘rich but unequal’ countries
1. Researching charitable food aid through a right to food lens
2. “We’re one step before the garbage”: why surplus food isn’t enough
3. The corporate–hunger alliance in the ‘Global North’
4. ‘Emergency’ food can’t fix long term problems
5. Reducing stigma, promoting dignity
6. Labour and care in the charitable food aid system
7. Ending the need for charitable food aid
Conclusion and call to action
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