British Food Journal: Volume 116 Issue 9

Hungry for change: the food banking industry in Australia

Sue Booth, Jillian Whelan

Over the last 20 years, food banks in Australia have expanded nationwide and are a well-organised “industry” operating as a third tier of the emergency food relief system. The…

Food banks, welfare, and food insecurity in Canada

Valerie Tarasuk, Naomi Dachner, Rachel Loopstra

Similar to the recent emergence of food banks in other affluent nations, the genesis and ultimate entrenchment of food banks in Canada has been tightly intertwined with the…

Rising use of “food aid” in the United Kingdom

Hannah Lambie-Mumford, Elizabeth Dowler

The purpose of this paper is to present the findings from two recent reviews on food aid use in the UK and discuss their implications and the challenges they posed for…

UK print media coverage of the food bank phenomenon: from food welfare to food charity?

Rebecca Wells, Martin Caraher

– The purpose of this paper is to explore how British print media have reported the emergence of food banks in the UK.

The adaptive change of the Italian Food Bank foundation: a case study

Cristina Santini, Alessio Cavicchi

The purpose of this paper is to examine the case of the Italian Food Bank Foundation, highlighting how ongoing global and European challenges are pushing the organization to adapt…

Surplus food recovery and donation in Italy: the upstream process

Paola Garrone, Marco Melacini, Alessandro Perego

This paper offers quantitative evidence on how surplus food, i.e. safe food that is not sold to the intended customers, is generated and recovered within Italian manufacturing and…

Food rescue – an Australian example

Rebecca Lindberg, Mark Lawrence, Lisa Gold, Sharon Friel

Food rescue is used in the emergency food sector internationally to reduce waste and improve food supplies to frontline providers and their clients. The purpose of this paper is…

Foodbank of Western Australia's healthy food for all

Lucy Meredith Butcher, Miranda Rose Chester, Leisha Michelle Aberle, Vanessa Jo-Ann Bobongie, Christina Davies, Stephanie Louise Godrich, Rex Alan Keith Milligan, Jennifer Tartaglia, Louise Maree Thorne, Andrea Begley

In Australia, the Foodbank of Western Australia (Foodbank WA) has a reputation for being at the forefront of health promotion. The purpose of this paper is to describe Foodbank…

The “dark side” of food banks? Exploring emotional responses of food bank receivers in the Netherlands

Hilje van der Horst, Stefano Pascucci, Wilma Bol

The purpose of this paper is to address how food, social status as well as the interactions at the food bank induce emotions in receivers, such as shame, gratitude and anger…

Old crises on new plates or old plates for a new crises? Food banks and food insecurity