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.
Table of Content
Introduction
Part I: Concepts
1. Security via Sovereignty: Lessons from the Global South
Myriam Paredes and Mark Edwards
2. Can You Put Food on the Table? Redefining Poverty in America
Maureen Berner and Alexander Vazquez
3. Food, Poverty, and Lifestyle Patterns: How Diversity Matters
Michael Jindra and Nicolas Larchet
Part Two: Problems
4. Food Spending Profiles for White, Black, and Hispanic Households Living in Poverty
Raphaël Charron-Chénier
5. The Geography of Risk: A Case Study of Food Insecurity, Poverty, and Food Assistance between the Urban and the Rural
Michael D. Gillespie
6. Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Health among Youth
Don Willis and Kevin M. Fitzpatrick
7. The Role of Coupons in Exacerbating Food Insecurity and Obesity
Kaitland M. Byrd, W. Carson Byrd, and Samuel R. Cook
8. The Rise and Falter of Emergency Food Assistance
Jennifer W. Bouek
9. The Complex Challenges to Participation in Federal Nutrition Programs
Rachel Wilkerson, Kathy Krey, and Linda English
10. Access to Food Assistance for Food Insecure Seniors
Marie C. Gualtieri
11. Food Deserts and Injustice: Poverty, Food Insecurity, and Food Sovereignty in Three Rust Belt Cities
Stephen J. Scanlan and Sam Regas
12. Shifting Access to Food: Food Deserts in Atlanta, 1980–2010
Gloria Ross and Bill Winders
Part Three: Solutions
13. Together at the Table: The Power of Public-Private Partnerships to Alleviate Hunger
Erin Nolen, Jeremy Everett, Doug Mc Durham, and Kathy Krey
14. Race, Class, Privilege, and Bias in South Florida Food Movements
Marina Karides and Patricia Widener
15. Food Insecurity in Southeast Grand Rapids, Michigan: How Our Kitchen Table Is Building Food Justice in the Face of Profiteering and Exclusionary Practices
Christy Mello
16. Community Leadership and Participation to Increase Food Access and Quality: Notes from the Field
Ameena Batada and Olufemi Lewis
17. Hunger in the Land of Plenty: Local Responses to Food Insecurity in Iowa
Gabrielle Roesch-Mc Nally, Jacqueline Nester, Andrea Basche, Eric Christianson, and Emily Zimmerman
18. Food Pantries on College and University Campuses: An Emerging Solution to Food Insecurity
Carmel E. Price and Natalie R. Sampson
Contributors
Index
About the author
Julia Waity is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington.
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