SOC 808 Chapter Notes -Daily Bread Food Bank, Food Bank, Food Sovereignty
10 Jun 2014
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Introduction: food insecurity is a major social problem in canada. Long after the depression of the 1930s, canada"s first food bank opened in 1981a decade later the number of food banks had swelled to almost 300 (ibid. ). By 2002 there were an estimated 620 food banks and over 2000 affiliated organizations providing so-called. Linking theory and practice: the literature on food insecurity tends to fall into two camps: i will call them the anti-poverty camp" and the food sovereignty camp". Cutbacks of billion (15 per cent over three years) for health, education and welfare": the chst proved to be a significant precursor to emerging food insecurity and hunger in. Runs the risk of reducing the issue of hunger and malnutrition to a humanitarian problem for rich countries to solve, a prospect unacceptable to societies with long and rich agrarian histories.
