Food waste, food insecurity, and the globalization of food banks
"Food banks--warehouses that collect and systematize surplus food--have expanded into one of the largest mechanisms to redistribute food waste. From their origins in North America in the 1960s, food banks provide food to communities in approximately one hundred countries on six continents. This book...
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Iowa City :
University of Iowa Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Preface
- Introduction
- The rise of the food bank
- Food banking in the United States
- Food banking in Israel and southwestern Asia
- Food banking in Germany and Denmark
- Food banking in Italy and Hungary
- Food banks in India and South Africa
- Conclusion: Putting food banks in their place
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index.
