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Hunger Inc.

Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

Kayleigh Garthwaite Kerry Hudson

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English
Pluto Press
13 February 2026
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 institutionalising charitable food aid absolves governments of their responsibility to ensure that people have a right to food.

As hunger and inequality continue to rise within advanced capitalist countries, this issue is more urgent than ever.

Kayleigh Garthwaite proposes radical key policies for governments and explores alternative community-led responses grounded in solidarity, not charity, to end the need for food aid before the indignity of food banks becomes completely normalised.
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Imprint:   Pluto Press
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 140mm,  Spine: 13mm
ISBN:   9780745350172
ISBN 10:   0745350178
Pages:   192
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Introduction: Charitable food aid in ‘rich but unequal’ countries 1. Researching charitable food aid through a right to food lens 2. “We’re one step before the garbage”: why surplus food isn’t enough 3. The corporate–hunger alliance in the ‘Global North’ 4. ‘Emergency’ food can’t fix long term problems 5. Reducing stigma, promoting dignity 6. Labour and care in the charitable food aid system 7. Ending the need for charitable food aid Conclusion and call to action

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.

Reviews for Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank

'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 <i>Austerity Bites 10 Years On: A Journey to the Sharp End of Cuts in the UK</i>


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