Hunger, Welfare and Food Security: Emerging Strategies

Abstract

A number of common themes and some points of difference emerge from this study of hunger in the final decades of the twentieth century in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK and the USA. Essentially it is a story of increasing hunger and unacceptable hardships, inadequate benefits and punitive welfare policies, government denial and uncoordinated public policy and valiant but inadequate charitable and community responses.