This article draws upon our perspective as academic-practitioners working in the fields of
food insecurity, food systems, and inequality to comment, in the early stages of the pandemic …

Scholars have demonstrated that common ways of performing charitable food aid in high-
income countries maintain a powerless and alienated status of recipients. Aiming to protect …

Welfare conditionality has become an idea of global significance in recent years. A 'hot
topic'in North America, Australia, and across Europe, it has been linked to austerity politics …

Since the 2008 global financial crisis, there has been a rise in the number of people
experiencing food insecurity. Particularly vulnerable are households with children. This …

How can huge populations be fed healthily, equitably and affordably while maintaining the
ecosystems on which life depends? The evidence of diet's impact on public health and the …

In this article, we suggest that social policy may be on the cusp of a large-scale adoption of
the notion of lived experience. However, within social policy and allied disciplines, the …

In the world's 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 …

Poverty remains one of the most urgent issues of our time. In this fully updated edition of her
important and widely acclaimed intervention on the topic, Ruth Lister introduces readers to …

Food sharing mobile applications are becoming increasingly popular, but little is known
about the new social configurations of people using them, particularly those applications that …

Foodbanks and other charitable activities are fast becoming an established part of austerity
Britain. This paper is based on ethnographic research undertaken over a two-year period in …