Title:	The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision
Authors:	Martin Caraher Sinéad Furey
Keywords:	Food Aid
Issue Date:	2018
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan
Description:	Food banks have become emblematic of modern society in the United Kingdom. The symbolism ranges from seeing indicators of caring community concern, through free food for freeloaders to failures of the state to deliver on the social agenda. Whatever your views there is little doubt of their visibility, on our streets, in our supermarkets through food drives, in the media and as a topic of conversation among politicians. This has happened in a relatively short period of time: the print media when talking about food banks up unto the mid-2000s usually had to preface or follow the term with an explanation of what they were or that they were common in countries such the United States or New Zealand. Now they stand as a metaphor for poverty in society. There are many books on food banks; in fact, in academia there is now a sub-branch of research looking at the experiences of people in food poverty and documenting the experiences and the effciency of a food system that delivers food for food aid. This book is not about these issues; we come from the perspective of addressing and locating food banks and the system of foodbanking within a wider framework of reference. The frame is probably best described by the term Welfare Economics which was coined after First World War to explore how market economics, including welfare policies, have driven the development of food banks and an offshoot of the dominant food system which deliver food surplus, waste and donations to charities. We are indebted to the work of Elizabeth Dowler and Peter Townsend in the United Kingdom; Janet Poppendieck from the United States Graham Riches from Canada, and from an earlier age the work of Richard Titmuss and Seebohm Rowntree. The work of these key thinkers forms the basis of our way of looking at food charity and food banks and are referenced in the various chapters.
URI:	http://10.6.20.12:80/handle/123456789/55647
ISBN:	978-3-319-78506-6
Appears in Collections:	Population Studies

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