Addressing food poverty in systems: governance of food assistance in three European countries

Abstract

Italy), where she teaches a masters' course on policies for the food system policies. She completed a Ph.D. in 'Economics and Territory', University of Tuscia (Viterbo, Italy) with a thesis on multicriteria assessment of impacts on the EU food quality polity and Geographical Indications. She continued to worked for six years as a post doctoral researcher (University of Pisa, Italy) on European FP7 and H2020 multi actor research projects (FOODLINKS; GLAMUR; TRANSMANGO, SALSA, ROBUST). Her research interests focuses on food systems and food and nutrition security, socioeconomic and environmental impacts of sustainable agriculture and food, support policies for smallholder farming and rural development policies at local and regional levels, public food procurement, food supply chain economics and agrifood standards.

Food waste reduction and food poverty alleviation: a system dynamics conceptual model

“…From the side of poverty alleviation, (unavoidable and avoidable) surplus food is valuable. It is among the resources streams that support food banks capacity (with differences according to the food assistance governance models (Galli et al 2018)). Third sector reliance (or dependency) on surplus food should be considered carefully (e.g.…”

“…From 2015 to 2017 in-depth interviews with food banks leaders and workshops have been developed with reference to the Italian context. More details on the empirical studies can be found in Galli et al (2018Galli et al ( , 2016 and Arcuri et al (2016).…”

“…Banks (FEBA) distributed 535 000 tons of food to 6,1 million people which represents only a fraction of the estimated volume of food waste generated annually in the EU 8 . At the same time, and due to the lack of data monitoring on food and nutrition insecurity, the proliferation of food banks is considered to be one indication of the increasing incidence of food insecurity (Galli et al 2018;Smith et al 2018).…”

“…To these ends, it relies on resources, both public and private, and represents a gateway to social services, in an interaction between public, private and third sector actors. This enables a dynamic framing that understands food assistance as "hybrid systems" (Galli et al 2018;Arcuri et al 2016;Abdussamad 2014) situated at the intersection between food systems, welfare systems and third sector systems (Figure 1). The understanding of food assistance dynamics and the identification of expected and unexpected consequences is only possible if this hybridity is explicitly considered, bridging different streams of literature and policy domains.…”

Symposium introduction—ethics and sustainable agri-food governance: appraisal and new directions

“…Galli et al, develop a system dynamics conceptualization of food waste generation, food recovery and redistribution for social purposes. Food assistance is qualified as a hybrid system, spanning food, public welfare and the voluntary sectors (Galli et al 2018). The analysis of feedback interactions highlights the (actual and potential) vulnerabilities of food assistance systems that occur when addressing food poverty by reducing food surplus.…”