Food banks

Williams, Andrew ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-4829 2025. Food banks. Holloway, L., Goodman, M. K., Maye, D., Kneafsey, Moya, Sexton, A. E. and Moragues-Faus, A., eds. Elgar Encyclopedia of Food and Society, Social Sciences series, Edward Elgar Publishing, pp. 188-190. (10.4337/9781800887435.00052)

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Abstract

Food banks are a global phenomenon. As distributors of food aid, food banks range from small-scale voluntary projects and charities to multimillion-dollar organisations funded directly by the state and the food industry. Academic perspectives have largely focused on the ways food banks are a by-product of a dysfunctional food system and a depleted welfare apparatus. Despite their ambivalent politics and continual proliferation across the world, growing attention is focused on possible futures beyond the food bank.

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > Geography and Planning (GEOPL)
Publisher:	Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN:	9781800887428
Last Modified:	10 Dec 2025 11:45
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183087

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