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Hunger, Food Charity and Social Policy – Challenges Faced by the Emerging Evidence Base

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 April 2015

Hannah Lambie-Mumford  and
Elizabeth Dowler
Hannah Lambie-Mumford
Affiliation:
Sheffield Political Economy Research Institute (SPERI), University of Sheffield E-mail: h.lambie-mumford@sheffield.ac.uk
Elizabeth Dowler
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Warwick E-mail: e.dowler@warwick.ac.uk
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This review builds on issues raised in the themed section relating to household level food insecurity, and the food charity response specifically. It looks at key elements in the development of this body of work and at some of the evidence gaps which remain. In particular, it engages with literature on determinants of household food insecurity with relevance to social policy (for example sufficiency of income), and on research which has examined charitable food responses through the lens of food insecurity. The review is necessarily limited in scope and therefore does not cover other elements of household food insecurity and food charity, including research on nutrition or food skills, or work on food charity operation, food sourcing and reach, for example.

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Themed Section on Hunger, Food and Social Policy in Austerity
Information
Social Policy and Society , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , July 2015 , pp. 497 - 506
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2015 

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