Screen LibraryFood and poverty : food insecurity and food sovereignty among America's poor /
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we se...
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Vanderbilt University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Nashville, Tennessee : |
| Publication Dates: | [2018] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
Food insecurity rates, which skyrocketed with the Great Recession, have yet to fall to pre-recession levels. Food pantries are stretched thin, and states are imposing new restrictions on programs like SNAP that are preventing people from getting crucial government assistance. At the same time, we see an increase in obesity that results from lack of access to healthy foods. The poor face a daily choice between paying bills and paying for food. -- Publisher description. |
| Carrier Form: | ix, 270 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780826522047 0826522041 9780826522030 0826522033 |
| Index Number: | HV696 |
| CLC: |
D771.27 F371.261 |
| Call Number: | F371.261/F686-1 |
| Contents: |
Concepts : -- Security via sovereignty: lessons from the global south / Can you put food on the table? Redefining poverty in America / Food, poverty and lifestyle patterns: how diversity matters / Problems : -- Food spending profiles for White, Black, and Hispanic households living in poverty / The geography of risk: a case study of food insecurity, poverty, and food assistance between the urban and the rural / Poverty, food insecurity, and health among youth / The role of coupons in exacerbating food insecurity and obesity / The rise and falter of emergency food assistance / The complex challenges to participation in Federal Nutrition Programs / Access to food assistance for food insecure seniors / Food deserts and injustice: poverty, food insecurity, and food sovereignty in three rust belt cities / Shifting access to food: food deserts in Atlanta, 1980-2010 / Solutions : -- Together at the table: the power of public-private partnerships to alleviate hunger / Race, class, privilege, and bias in South Florida food movements / Food insecurity in Southeast Grand Rapids, Michigan: how our kitchen table is building food justice in the face of profiteering and exclusionary practices / Community leadership and participation to increase food access and quality: notes from the field / Hunger in the land of plenty: local responses to food insecurity in Iowa / Food pantries on college and university campuses: an emerging solution to food insecurity / |