Baking Homemade Bread Becomes a Public Good

By Lynn Freehill-Maye, YES! magazine

For today’s mutual-aid societies, the catch line is often “solidarity, not charity.” Community Loaves, too, draws on the model of neighbors helping neighbors.

Research and Creativity: Making a Play about Food Poverty in the UK

By Jasber Singh, People's Knowledge

But what is the human story behind these injustices? How can we raise consciousness and create change? In other words, how does one communicate this information in a meaningful and impactful way?

This Isn’t Just Another Urban Farm—It’s a Food Bank

By Sammi-Jo Lee, YES! magazine

Partnerships between food banks and local agriculture are on the rise. Food banks are farming produce, recovering (or “gleaning”) agricultural surplus straight from the fields, building urban demonstration gardens and seed libraries, and teaching classes in underserved neighborhoods for those who want to grow food in their backyards or in balcony bucket gardens.

How to Crack Britain’s Destructive Addiction to Food Banks

By Tim Lang, The Conversation

Rightly, the Fabian Commission also recognises that food banks and poverty are also indicators of policy failure.

In Face of Harsh Austerity, Britain’s Hunger Crisis Sparks First Student-led Food Bank

By Gabrielle Pickard-Whitehead, Occupy.com

In 2015, this welcoming café-like sanctuary has offered warmth, a listening ear – and most importantly, it has handed out more than 2,700 food parcels to people of differing backgrounds and ages who are all part of the hunger crisis that is reshaping Britain.

Gardening for Victory: One Battle for Urban Food Security

By Kate Flynn, Solutions Journal

While food insecurity often brings to mind global issues and struggles in developing countries, there are many examples in developed countries of local gaps in food security.

The Final Word on Food Banks?

By Tessa Tricks, Sustainable Food Trust

Every week, in Britain and across the world, new food banks are opening their doors.

Banking on Better Health: Food Banks and Nutritional Quality Assurance

By Melody Ng, Food Tank

While the number of Americans who have visited food banks has increased from 5.6 million people to 6.2 million people since 2010, various food banks and emergency food programs are now taking a more selective approach to the kinds of food they will allow onto their shelves.

Food & agriculture – October 16

By Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org

•Can Industrial Agriculture Provide Global Food Security? •Dutch greenhouses are rapidly tapping into the geothermal opportunity •Container City: The Colombian Food Court with Personality •Rooftop Farming Is Getting Off The Ground •Food poverty is an attack on society