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Conclusions So What Is the Future?

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This chapter brings together the debates raised in the previous chapters, these range from the right to food and the need for a consensually acceptable basket of food, through the rise of food banks and the consequences of this growth which are a depoliticisation of food poverty alongside an impression that hunger is being tackled. The argument is put forward that the actual savings are minimal within the social welfare budget and may in fact be in breach of human rights. A case is made for action based on using the human right to food as the glue for a campaign to involve the existing food charity networks in a lobby for change. There is a need to tackle the factors in the current welfare system which drive people to using food banks to address food insecurity while looking at the issue within a larger framework to help those in low paid jobs who are at risk of food poverty.

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Notes

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    Menu for Change website http://menuforchange.org.uk/what-we-do/, accessed 5 January 2018.

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    This is not a formal trade union but a union or joining together of volunteers working in food banks.

  3. 3.

    See the detail on http://www.freedom90.ca/demands.html, accessed 6 April 2018.

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    Menu for Change website http://menuforchange.org.uk/what-we-do/, accessed 8 January 2018.

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    http://www.centerforhungerfreecommunities.org/our-projects/witnesses-hunger, accessed 8 January 2018.

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Caraher, M., Furey, S. (2018). Conclusions So What Is the Future?. In: The Economics of Emergency Food Aid Provision. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78506-6_5

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