Hunger Inc.
Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank
$29.71
- Paperback
192 pages
- Release Date
13 February 2026
Summary
Since 2020, we have seen a huge increase in the demand for charitable food aid, due to multiple political and economic crises. Initially seen as an emergency measure, corporate-backed food aid programs are now entrenched ‘solutions’ to hunger. But who really benefits from them?
Kayleigh Garthwaite travelled across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programs, and how inst…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745350172 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745350178 |
| Author: | Kayleigh Garthwaite, Kerry Hudson |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 192 |
| Release Date: | 13 February 2026 |
| Weight: | 210g |
| Dimensions: | 13mm x 140mm x 216mm |
Critics Review
‘How do you close a food bank – a beacon of what is wrong? By turning it into a shop – preferably a co-op. Kayleigh Garthwaite’s ground-breaking work explains why food banks prolong hunger and what must be done’
– Danny Dorling, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford‘This is the book we need right now, as inequality rages and people across the ‘wealthy West’ turn in ever greater numbers to food banks and other types of food support. Crucially, it gives us something to hang on to: solutions. An absolute must read not just for policymakers, but for everyone’
– Mary O’Hara, author of Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UKKayleigh Garthwaite
Kayleigh Garthwaite is Associate Professor in Social Policy at the University of Birmingham, UK. She is the author of the British Academy Peter Townsend Prize-winning Hunger Pains: Life Inside Foodbank Britain. She co-founded the Global Solidarity Alliance for Food, Health, and Social Justice (GSA), an international collaboration between scholars, NGOs, and grassroots campaigners.
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