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In the worlds most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? 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. It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food.

The books unifying theme is understanding the food bank nation as a powerful metaphor for the deep hole at the centre of neoliberalism, illustrating: the de-politicization of hunger; the abandonment of social rights; the stigma of begging and loss of human dignity; broken social safety nets; the dysfunctional food system; the shift from income security to charitable food relief; and public policy neglect. It exposes the hazards of corporate food philanthropy and the moral vacuum within negligent governments and their lack of public accountability. The advocacy of civil society with a right to food bite is urgently needed to gather political will and advance joined-up policies and courses of action to ensure food security for all.

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Against a backdrop of increasing food insecurity in OECD countries Riches - photo 1
Against a backdrop of increasing food insecurity in OECD countries, Riches examination of food banking reveals the extent to which Big Food and privatized food charity have well and truly moved into the spaces left by retreating neoliberal governments. Beyond the food drives, celebrity endorsement, smiling volunteers and government legislated tax incentives, this book documents the juggernaut that is global food banking. Despite being a thorn in the side of many primary duty bearers, rights-based approaches to food offer promise as an effective counterweight to slow the progress of the foodbank juggernaut and reclaim public policy.
Sue Booth, Flinders University, Australia
Graham Riches in-depth analysis of the way food banking has entrenched itself in the neoliberal agenda and public discourse calls for a change in the conversation about domestic hunger from corporate charity to the right to food. This book makes a significant contribution to this new conversation, arguing that civil society across OECD countries can and should hold the indifferent States to account for their failure to ensure dignified access to good food for all when they so clearly have both the means and the duty to do so.
Pete Ritchie, Nourish Scotland, UK
Cant we do better than food banks? Graham Riches moves the needle from charity to the human right to adequate food and nutrition. He describes how capital-soaked transnational corporations monopolize public policy, blame poverty on the poor, and endorse themselves as the publically-subsidized solution. Riches alternative vision, rooted in social solidarity examples, rebuilds the social contract between civil society and its governments through democratically evolved plans, transparent monitoring, and the active participation and leadership of policies most affected publics.
Anne C. Bellows, Syracuse University, USA, and Board Member, FIAN International
Graham Richess book is essential reading for anyone wanting to understand why problems of hunger and food insecurity are unabated in countries where food banks become established as the primary response.
Valerie Tarasuk, University of Toronto, Canada
FOOD BANK NATIONS
In the worlds most affluent and food secure societies, why is it now publicly acceptable to feed donated surplus food, dependent on corporate food waste, to millions of hungry people? 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. It investigates the prevalence and causes of domestic hunger and food waste in OECD member states, the origins and thirty-year rise of US style charitable food banking, and its institutionalization and corporatization. It unmasks the hidden functions of transnational corporate food banking which construct domestic hunger as a matter for charity thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food.
The books unifying theme is understanding the food bank nation as a powerful metaphor for the deep hole at the centre of neoliberalism, illustrating: the depoliticization of hunger; the abandonment of social rights; the stigma of begging and loss of human dignity; broken social safety nets; the dysfunctional food system; the shift from income security to charitable food relief; and public policy neglect. It exposes the hazards of corporate food philanthropy and the moral vacuum within negligent governments and their lack of public accountability. The advocacy of civil society with a right to food bite is urgently needed to gather political will and advance joined-up policies and courses of action to ensure food security for all.
Graham Riches is Emeritus Professor and former Director of the School of Social Work, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada. As author and coeditor 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).
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La Va Campesina in the Committee on World Food Security
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Public Policies for Food Sovereignty
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Food Riots, Food Rights and the Politics of Provisions
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Food Sovereignty, Agroecology and Biocultural Diversity
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Edited by Michel Pimbert
Food and Nutrition Security in Southern African Cities
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The Real Cost of Cheap Food
(Second Edition)
Michael Carolan
Food Bank Nations
Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food
Graham Riches
For further details please visit the series page on the Routledge website: http://www.routledge.com/books/series/RSFSE/
FOOD BANK NATIONS
Poverty, Corporate Charity and the Right to Food
Graham Riches
First published 2018 by Routledge 2 Park Square Milton Park Abingdon Oxon - photo 2
First published 2018
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2018 Graham Riches
The right of Graham Riches to be identified as author of this work has been asserted by him in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reprinted or reproduced or utilised in any form or by any electronic, mechanical, or other means, now known or hereafter invented, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publishers.
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Names: Riches, Graham, author.
Title: Food bank nations : poverty, corporate charity and the right to food / Graham Riches.
Description: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2018. | Series: Routledge studies in food, society and the environment | Includes bibliographical references and index.
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