Beyond 'feeding the crisis': Mobilising 'more than food aid' approaches to food poverty in the UK

Milbourne, Paul ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3346-885X 2024. Beyond 'feeding the crisis': Mobilising 'more than food aid' approaches to food poverty in the UK. Geoforum 150 , 103976. 10.1016/j.geoforum.2024.103976

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Abstract

Rising demand for emergency food during the last couple of decades in the UK has led to a great deal of academic interest in food aid provision, and food banking in particular. Efforts have also been made to examine food poverty and responses to it in more critical terms, which has entailed moving beyond a focus on emergency food support to engage with ‘more than food aid’ approaches. In this paper, I discuss how these latter approaches are beginning to be mobilised by national organisations, local authorities and place-based food partnerships in the UK. An important catalyst for this shift was the Covid-19 pandemic, which provided the crisis conditions that encouraged public and third-sector actors to think about, and act upon, food poverty in different ways. Drawing on an analysis of submissions to a Covid-19 food inquiry, place-based food initiatives implemented during the pandemic period and more recent initiatives instigated by national food support and anti-hunger groups, the paper examines how a diverse range of organisations are becoming more critical of existing (food aid) responses to food poverty and are seeking to develop more supportive local foodscapes based on a ‘more than food aid’ approach. The paper concludes with a discussion of the implications of this shift for future research on food poverty.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0016-7185
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	6 March 2024
Date of Acceptance:	28 February 2024
Last Modified:	14 Mar 2024 10:15
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/166910

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