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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Emergency Food"”.
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Bowls, Banter, and Belonging: Emergency Food as a Third Space
… how are communities coping? Analyzing food banks shows part of the answer. This thesis explores how communities are responding to the decline of traditional "third spaces" by examining the growing social role of food banks. It investigates whether these sites, typically associated with …
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Use of emergency food by food pantry clients in Fairfax, Virginia
Demand for emergency food at food pantries nationwide has increased rapidly during the past 15 years. Food pantries have varied policies for distributing food to clients. Clients of a food pantry in Fairfax, Virginia, were surveyed to determine their satisfaction with the food they received and to …
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"It's the Resources": Work, Governance, and the Institutionalization of an Emergency Food Network
… of loosely connected organizations such as food pantries and soup kitchens constitute the emergency food network. Organizations in this network provide a critical source of food to millions of households each year. This dissertation examines how organizations in one city-level emergency food …
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The Human and Environmental Health Impacts of Food Quality Among Emergency Food Providers
… process, package, transport, market, and consume food are critical factors for both human and environmental health. The current industrial food system in the United States has numerous adverse effects on environmental and human health, which significantly impact the millions of food insecure …
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The Sustainability of Hunger Relief: Analysis of Emergency Food Providers in Low Access Counties of West Virginia
… of this study is to assess the stability of emergency food providers in economically distressed counties in West Virginia. Data was collected from Clay and Webster counties, of which Clay is considered low access and Webster is severely low access or a food desert. Administrators of emergency …
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Examining Contributors and Solutions to Prevent and Manage Food Waste in Households with Low Incomes and the Emergency Food System within the U.S.
… United States (U.S.), up to 40% of the entire food supply is lost or wasted, which contributes to negative environmental, economic, and social outcomes, with the majority of food waste occurring in the retail and consumer sectors of the food supply chain. Concurrently, 10.5% of U.S. households …
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Consuming Poverty: The Unexpected Politics of Food Aid in an Era of Austerity
… dissertation tracks the remarkable growth of food assistance in the U.S. over the past fifteen years and asks what this expansion of food aid means for poor people living in New York City. Much of the scholarly literature on welfare policy in the U.S argues that social programs have become …
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Growing Toward the Sun: How the Good-Food Movement Catapulted a Small New York City Third-Sector Organization into Rapid Growth, Success, and Many Challenges
… organization focused on what it calls "food justice." This study concentrates on how this organization, that I call Food Rights, has built a broad multi-sector network made up of a varied set of constituents and collaborators aiming to develop and promote an alternative food system for …
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Community Food Work as Critical Practice: A Faith-based Perspective
… many faith-based hunger relief efforts address food insecurity through the emergency food system, but they often do not challenge the systemic causes of the need, which according to some, are poverty and inequality. As a promising alternative, community food work is a radical approach to food …
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Exploring NCCARE360's Role in Addressing Food Insecurity: Onboarding Successes, Challenges, and Referral Outcomes Among Community-Based Organizations in the Piedmont Triad Region
… coordinated care referral platform, to address food insecurity. A mixed methods approach was used to address the study's objectives. Focus groups explored the barriers to onboarding and retention that CBOs experience as well as the facilitators that keep CBOs active and engaged with NCCARE360. …
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Household Food Security in Developing Countries: Understanding the Role of Dynamic Natural and Social Systems
… of consistent and reliable levels of nutritious food may be one of the most brutal results of poverty. Beyond the human suffering, the lack of food security has damaging economic consequences, making it difficult for communities to break poverty cycles. This dissertation studies the various …
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Food Security in Nunatsiavut: From Historical Perspectives to Future Prospects
Objective: Inuit in Canada identify food security as an Inuit-specific determinant of health. Historical and contemporary policies shape determinants of health. These policies vary among the four Inuit regions or Land Claim Areas in Canada that comprise Inuit Nunangat. This thesis focuses on one …
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Conserving Montana's sagebrush highway: long distance migration in sage-grouse
… and avoiding cropland and badlands where food was scarce. Birds responded to record-breaking snowfall in winter 2011 (>274 cm) by extending their migration another ≤50 km south onto windswept ridge tops where sagebrush remained above snow. Grouse secured food resources by selecting the …
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Conserving Montana's sagebrush highway: long distance migration in sage-grouse
… and avoiding cropland and badlands where food was scarce. Birds responded to record-breaking snowfall in winter 2011 (>274 cm) by extending their migration another ≤50 km south onto windswept ridge tops where sagebrush remained above snow. Grouse secured food resources by selecting the …
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The changing face of food poverty with special reference to Wales
… of current austerity policies, the growth of the emergency food aid landscape has become recognisable through the ‘food bank’. These places of charitable food-redistribution have seen their presence increase within an evolving social policy context. Understanding food bank use as two modes of …
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Ecology of Merriam's Turkeys in the Southern Black Hills, South Dakota
… Merriam’s turkeys associated with supplemental food from livestock feeding or farmsteads was not different (P = 0.70) from females that wintered in forest habitats. Turkeys selected for open to mid-canopy (0-70%) mature (>22.9 cm diameter at breast height [DBH]) structural stage pine stands for …
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Hunger in the Gwembe valley: A case study of Mweemba chieftaincy, 1905-1987
… text.The first chapter examines the causes of food shortages in the Chieftaincy. The chapter investigates the reasons why the people of Mweemba were not able to produce enough grain to keep in reserve so that a single season's agricultural shortfall would not cause them a subsistence crisis. We …
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Connecting for survival: Understanding the spatial implications of migrant women's food insecurity coping strategies in Medellin, Colombia, and Washington, DC
… on connecting to physical resources, especially food, and to important social ties. This dissertation provides a nuanced understanding of the spatial implications of this connectivity as made visible through mobility and social networks in two cities. Everyday experiences of food security can be …