Overview
- Editors:
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Martin Caraher
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Northhampton Square CM516 City University, London EC1V OHB, United Kingdom
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John Coveney
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Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
- Critically examines food poverty and food insecurity, with the goal of clarifying taken for granted assumptions in present discourses
- Explores the rising tide of food poverty and some of the solutions at both national and city state levels
- Draws together the issues surrounding food security and locates solutions within a food policy framework of the total food system
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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- Martin Caraher, John Coveney
Pages 1-9
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- Moïse Muzigaba, Thandi Puoane, David Sanders
Pages 31-41
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- Aurélie Carimentrand, Chantal Crenn, Anne-Hélène Delavigne, Matthieu Duboys de Labarre, Karen Montagne, Cristina Parvu et al.
Pages 67-77
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- Daniel Ronson, Martin Caraher
Pages 79-88
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- Christina Pollard, Andrea Begley, Tim Landrigan
Pages 89-103
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- Martin Caraher, John Coveney
Pages 117-124
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- Matthieu Duboys de Labarre, Aurélie Carimentrands, Chantal Crenn, Anne-Hélène Delavigne, Karen Montagne, Cristina Parvu et al.
Pages E1-E1
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Back Matter
Pages 125-126
About this book
​This volume is concerned with food poverty and action on food (in)security. The context is a global one; as the developed world faces a problem with overconsumption and chronic diseases, the developing world is addressing the double burden of hunger and over consumption. Even in the developed world, nation states are facing the rise of modern malnutrition which is over consumption, but also the re-emergence of hunger as there are growing levels of poverty and inequality due to the financial crises. Food insecurity is in many people’s minds associated with hunger, and while this is true the modern food system has introduced new complexities to food insecurity with the growth of micro-nutrient inequalities. Hunger and obesity are not being faced by two different groups but often the same group or cohort. These are features of modern malnutrition that are often not recognized. A critical examination of food poverty and food security is undertaken, with a view to clarifying taken-for-granted assumptions in present discourses. The book addresses food charity and the rise of solutions such as foodbanks as appropriate social responses. The final chapters explore the solutions from real life situations. The concluding chapter from the editors draws together the issues and locates solutions within a food policy framework of the total food system.  The various definitions of food insecurity will are examined. Hunger and its modern manifestations (hunger and obesity) is another focus,with particular explorations of developed and developing countries experiences. Some of the chapters cover how food poverty/insecurity is being addressed and  provide examples of work in progress.
Editors and Affiliations
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Northhampton Square CM516 City University, London EC1V OHB, United Kingdom
Martin Caraher
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Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia
John Coveney
About the editors
Martin Caraher
Northhampton Square CM516 City
London, UK
John Coveney
Flinders University
Adelaide, Australia
