{"product_id":"hunger-inc-kayleigh-garthwaite-9780745350172","title":"Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'This ground-breaking work explains why food banks prolong hunger and what must be done' \u003c\/b\u003eDanny Dorling, University of Oxford\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'The book we need right now, as inequality rages and people across the \"wealthy West\" turn in ever greater numbers to food banks and other types of food support' \u003c\/b\u003eMary O'Hara, author of \u003ci\u003eAusterity Bites 10 Years On\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSince 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corporate-backed food aid programmes are now entrenched 'solutions' to hunger. But who really benefits from them?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eHunger Inc.\u003c\/i\u003e, Kayleigh Garthwaite travels across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programmes, and how institutionalising charitable food aid absolves governments of their responsibility to ensure that people have a right to food. As hunger and inequality continue to rise within advanced capitalist countries, this issue is more urgent than ever.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProposing radical key policies for governments, she explores alternative community-led responses grounded in solidarity, not charity, to end the need for food aid before the indignity of food banks becomes completely normalised.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eKayleigh Garthwaite\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize-winning \u003ci\u003eHunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain\u003c\/i\u003e. She co-founded the Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health, and Social Justice.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Pluto Press (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49826560704705,"sku":"9780745350172","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0781\/5512\/0833\/files\/9780745350172.jpg?v=1764783380","url":"https:\/\/www.porchlightbooks.com\/products\/hunger-inc-kayleigh-garthwaite-9780745350172","provider":"Porchlight Book Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}