Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
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- Paperback
360 pages
- Release Date
13 April 2018
Summary
How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.Food banks and food pantries have proliferated in response to an economic emergency. The loss of manufacturing jobs combined with the recession of the early 1980s and Reagan administration cutbacks in federal programs led to an explosion in the growth of food charity. This was meant to be a stopgap measure, but the jobs never came back, and the “em…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262535168 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262535165 |
| Author: | Andrew Fisher, Saru Jayaraman |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 360 |
| Release Date: | 13 April 2018 |
| Weight: | 468g |
| Dimensions: | 229mm x 152mm x 21mm |
| Series: | Big Hunger |
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Essential reading for academics and students of food policy, environmental studies, public health, social policy, social work, community planning, law and human rights.
—Review of Agricultural Food Environment StudiesAndrew Fisher has provided food for thought in his new book.
—Agriculture and Human ValuesAbout The Author
Andrew Fisher
Andrew Fisher has worked in the anti-hunger field for twenty-five years, as the executive director of national and local food groups, and as a researcher, organizer, policy advocate, and coalition builder. He has led successful efforts to gain passage of multiple pieces of federal food and nutrition legislation.
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