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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"food bank"”.
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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 …
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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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"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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Hungry No More: A Food System Study & Hunger-Free Community Plan for San Luis Obispo County
<p>This project examines food systems and hunger in relation to city planning, and results in a draft strategic plan to address the food security and nutritional needs of San Luis Obispo County’s most vulnerable residents. This Draft Plan is submitted to the Food Bank Coalition of San Luis Obispo …
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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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Edible Cultures: The Politics and Ethics of Recuperating Food Waste
… involved in an emergent citywide system of food waste recuperation in the E.U.’s capital of Brussels. It incorporates those who recirculate food—such as volunteers at the city’s largest food bank; workers at a culinary skills-training program; and activists in a soup kitchen with "zero food …
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Coping with food vulnerability: the role of social networks in the lives of Missouri food pantry clients
This paper utilizes data from Coping with Hunger: Food Pantry Clients in the Central Missouri Food Bank Region (2005) to better understand the ways in which informal social networks are utilized by families and individuals coping with food insecurity. Social networks included family, friends, …
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Three essays on immigrant nonprofit organizations and immigrant use of social services
… I use qualitative interview data to examine how food bank staff connect immigrant groups to public services. In Chapters 2 and 3, I focus on immigrant nonprofit organizations. I use census and immigrant nonprofit data and regression analysis to examine where immigrant nonprofits may be located. …
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Nutritional Content of Supplemental Food Baskets Distributed by Charitable Agencies in Northeast Tennessee.
… community members are met by supplemental food baskets distributed by charitable groups in northeast Tennessee. Hunger is a real problem among the area's elderly population, as 14.3% of the populations live at or below the poverty level. Data were collected using observation interviews at …
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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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The Impact of Food Insecurity on Child Development in London and Islamabad
This dissertation examined how food insecurity impacts child development in two contrasting urban areas: London, a high-income area with robust welfare infrastructure, and Islamabad, a low-to middle-income area characterised by structural poverty and a weak institutional framework. A critical …
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Implementing food pantry nutrition policies: Perspectives from the field
<p>The charitable food system includes food pantries and are often used by individuals and households who are food insecure (Kuhns & Norotny, 2021; Seligman & Berkowitz, 2019; Sangye, 2013). Adults with any level of food insecurity have a 43% to 53% greater risk of developing a chronic disease than …
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The persistence of poor diet and diet inequalities
… focusing on two under-studied groups: food insecure adults and ethnic minority adults. An analysis of UK national nutrition surveys showed substantial social inequalities in diet that largely persisted from 1986 to 2012, though adherence to dietary recommendations improved over time for …
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An exploration of social protection financing aid as an instrument for poverty alleviation among the elderly and people with disabilities in Namibia.
… main expenses for the elderly were found to be food, household needs and municipal bills. For those living with disabilities,their main expenses constitute medical and rehabilitation costs, children’s school needs, and household needs. It was further found that the benefit received in the form …
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Attitudes toward and interest in community gardening in two low-income neighborhoods
… of human resources, e.g., while the South Plains Food Bank and some community leaders could supply both human and non-human resources.
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Three essays in environmental and food economics
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2027-08-01
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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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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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