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Charitable food aid in Finland: from a social issue to an environmental solution

2019

Since the establishment of the first food bank in 1995, charitable food aid (CFA) has become entrenched in Finland as a seemingly irreplaceable solution to food poverty. Further, it has recently been suggested that the focus of food aid activities is shifting from food poverty and temporary hunger alleviation towards environmental sustainability through addressing food waste via organized re-distribution of expiring food from retail to charitable organizations. This potentially creates a mechanism that (1) solidifies food poverty and (2) fortifies the paradoxical situation where charitable organizations delivering food aid are dependent on food waste rather than trying to reduce it. To unde…

Food Assistance

2018

Food assistance and food charity refer to practices where public, private, or third sector actors provide food (or resources to acquire food) to individuals or households that face hunger or food shortage. The food is provided for free or for a minimal cost and the provision is conducted through varying services like food banks. Domestic food assistance practices are realized in relations between a collective (the provider or donor) and individuals (the recipients of the assistance). For those international practices of food aid that take place between collectives, typically nations or global food aid organizations and recipient countries, see the entry for Food aid. Currently, approximatel…

Faith based organizations as actors in the charity economy : A case study of food assistance in Finland

2019

In recent decades, charitable food assistance has grown into a prevalent way to respond to hunger as a manifestation of severe or absolute poverty that persists even in the affluent European Welfare States. By severe poverty we refer to an economic condition of life, which leaves an individual or family not only physically hungry but also in a situation where the basic need for nutritious healthy food is unmet to such a degree that it seriously violates the chance of sustaining socially accepted membership of society. Throughout Europe, nongovernmental organizations, and faith-based actors in particular, have taken up the task of alleviating the immediate food needs of the most deprived peo…

Conclusion: food charity in Europe

2020

This edited collection provides the first comprehensive study of the rise of food charity across Europe. This concluding chapter pulls together the findings of all the individual case studies to analyse what comparisons can be drawn regarding the growth of this type of charitable provision across the continent over the last few decades. The aim of this book is to use food charity as a lens through which to examine changing responses to poverty in the context of shifting social policies, and the data provided by the case studies have demonstrated just how important a lens food charity is in.. [continues] peerReviewed

New frames for food charity in Finland

2020

This chapter forms the land case study for Finland. As with all empirical chapters it explores several key themes in relation to food charity in Finland: • the history of food charity in the national context and the relationship between the welfare state and charities; • the nature of and drivers behind contemporary food charity provision; • key changes in social policy and their impact on rising charitable food provision; • and the social justice implications of increasing need for charitable assistance with food. The chapter concludes with critical reflections on the future direction of food charity provision in Finland and the implications of this.

Introduction:

2020

This chapter sets out the key issues with which the book engages. It highlights the range of disparate evidence which is emerging on the rise of food charity from various academic sources across Europe. It discusses the urgent need for a comprehensive and rigorous comparative study of this phenomenon. It sets out the comparative concepts used by authors throughout the book notably food charity, food and poverty. It goes on to examine debates around social and human rights and the role of food waste in food charity, before discussing of the utility of understanding food charity as part of the ‘charity economy’. It ends with an outline of the rest of the book including the methodological appr…

"Samanarvoisia tiskin molemmin puolin" : etnografinen tutkimus ruoka-avun vapaaehtoistyöstä

2017

Tämä tutkimus käsittelee vapaaehtoistyötä suomalaisessa ruoka-avussa. Tarkoituksena on luoda kuvaa siitä, ketkä vapaaehtoistyötä tekevät ja miksi. Kiinnostuksen kohteena ovat erityisesti vapaaehtoisten motivaatiotekijät. Tutkimus keskittyy vapaaehtoisten kokemuksiin ruohonjuuritasolla ja lähtökohtana on ruoka-avun arjen jäsentyminen. Tutkimusstrategiana tässä tutkimuksessa on etnografia. Kenttätutkimus on suoritettu kesällä 2016 eräässä suomalaisessa ruoka-avun toimipisteessä. Aineistoa on kerätty pääosin osallistuvalla havainnoinnilla sekä puolistrukturoiduin teemahaastatteluin. Teoreettisen viitekehyksen muodostavat vapaaehtoistyö ja eritoten sen motivaatiotekijät. Tutkimuksessa esitellää…

Charitable food aid in a nordic welfare state : A case for environmental and social injustice

2017