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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"Food banks"”.
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Successes and Challenges in Implementing Food-insecurity Interventions: A Descriptive Case Study of Feeding America Food Banks in Kentucky
Food is a human right, and fighting food insecurity is fighting for food justice. Food insecurity remains a pressing global challenge despite efforts to secure adequate food resources. Feeding America fights rising food insecurity in the United States. It delivers various intervention programs …
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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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The nature of food poverty : Literature review and qualitative study in Greenwich (UK)
Food poverty is often associated to food banks which are actually a crisis response to the immediate needs of people without enough money for food. Nevertheless, food poverty also includes underlying food insecurity. Less evident, this long-term condition is being experienced by many more people …
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Large-scale optimization for green logistics and stochastic resource allocation for food security
… management and policy analysis problems in food supply chain systems utilizing large-scale optimization, stochastic resource allocation, and data-analytics methodologies. We focused on three main research questions: 1) How can retailers build green, efficient last-mile logistics system when …
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Povinné poskytování potravin jako nástroj prevence vzniku odpadu
Globally, around a billion tonnes of food end up as waste annually, which deprives us of natural resources used for their production. The humankind is continuously putting higher pressure on the environment, which results in the current environmental crises - among others the climate crisis, loss …
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The changing face of food poverty with special reference to Wales
… 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 ‘experience’, …
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The Analysis of Food Recovery Organization Leadership: How Transformational and Servant Leaders Overcame a Time of Crisis
… country weakened as demands escalated for free food resources with specific pressure placed on food banks and food recovery organizations. There were citizens who had not previously relied on free food services who found themselves in drive through pickups, waiting for pre-packaged food boxes or …
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Food Safety Education Challenges and Opportunities in Virginia's Food Recovery Organizations
… an estimated 11.1% of households experiencing food insecurity in the U.S. in 2018, meaning that they did not have the adequate resources to access safe, nutritious food at some point in the year. In order to support people experiencing food insecurity and related-hunger, national organizations, …
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"""Some of these kids are gonna be my nurses, some of these kids are gonna be my doctors, but they can't be if they're hungry"": a qualitative inquiry of a school-based weekend feeding program"
Food insecurity is defined as the access to all people at all times to enough food for an active, healthy life. In 2009, 14.7 percent of households in the United States were food insecure, and that included 5.7 percent of households that had very low food security. In 10.6 percent of households …
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Challenges and opportunities for socially just food systems in rural Scotland: an ethnographic exploration into how rurality shapes responses to and lived experiences of food insecurity among parents and carers in north-east Scotland.
… from securing access to sufficient and adequate food for a healthy diet, challenging the realisation of their human right to food. Food insecurity has become an acute social, political and public health concern, particularly amongst families with children. The increasing pressure on household …
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Allotments and alternative food networks: the case of Plymouth, UK
Alternative food networks (AFNs) are the focus of an ‘explosive growth’ of research in Europe (Goodman 2004), and the term covers a wide range of activities, from food banks, community gardens, and farmers’ markets, to community supported or organic agriculture. However, there is an impasse in …
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Student food security: the (dis)connection between student food experiences, sustainability and green spaces from the lens of food security
The food security of university students in South Africa is an area of research which is becoming increasingly researched and recognised. Internationally, there has been research into university student food security, recognition of student food insecurity and the links to academic success, and the …
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Three Essays in Behavioral Economics and Macroeconomics: Unraveling Celebrity Influence on Philanthropy, Racial Disparities in Donation Decisions During the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Impact of Foreign Direct Investment on Economic Growth in Saudi Arabia
… contributions made by the average US citizen to food banks in the fourth quarter of 2020. The study finds that a substantial portion of the population (57%) was willing to support charitable causes during this challenging period. Additionally, it reveals that Black participants were more likely …
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From Macro to Micro: A Study of the Impact of Stock Market Development and Behavioral Factors on Charitable Donations During the COVID-19 Pandemic.
… contributions made by the average US citizen to food banks in the fourth quarter of 2020. The study finds that a substantial portion of the population (57%) was willing to support charitable causes during this challenging period. Additionally, it reveals that Black participants were more likely …
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The Exploratory Study of Consumers' Experience of Using Food Pantries and Their Self-Sufficiency and Quality of Life
BACKGROUND: Food insecurity and consumers' chronic dependence on social welfare designed for emergency use has raised concern for food banks and food pantry directors who are interested in consumers' experience of using food pantries and their self-sufficiency during the period of relying on food …
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Empirical analyses of the social safety net
Chapter 1: Food Pantry Policies and Nutritional Quality: Applying the Healthy Eating Index to Food PantriesFood pantries are a significant source of food support for families suffering from food insecurity in Minnesota, but studies have found shortcomings in the nutritional quality of the bundles …
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Talking with Their Mouths Half Full: food insecurity in the Hamilton community
While the sociology of food has attended to what symbolisms of presence can tell us about society, the same attention has not been attributed to symbolisms of absence. Within the context of affluent post-industrial societies, food insecurity means that people are “at times, uncertain of having, or …
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Food Waste Reduction through Food Sharing Initiatives: The lived Experiences of Restaurants and Food Bank Employees in Riyadh
… of the same world, about 1.3 billion tons of food is wasted every year. We do not know enough about what contributes to food waste. However, there seems to be an emergent pattern of behaviour around sharing food. This hermeneutic phenomenological research will explore how food sharing might …