Beyond Food Distribution: The Context of Food Bank Innovation in Alabama

Strickland, Kathryn; Whitman, John R.

doi:10.1080/19320248.2019.1595252

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“…Community services are service programs that improve community performance, such as empowering youth, educating communities on agricultural practices, and raising community awareness of local products [106,110]. Community services also include programs such as food banks to reduce food waste [111]. At the same time, environmental services are provided to support the sustainability of the food system.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…Process Based on Value-Added Sources -Determining the optimum location of RFHs [47,97] Planning -Determining the uniqueness of the community to improve the value proposition [47,97] Infrastructure -Social involvement -Warehouse to conduct basic processing of food (washing, weighing, sorting, grading, labelling, packing, packaging, and storage) -Human resources management [86,97,102,106,107,110] -Operation services -Producer services [97,108,109] Services -Marketing services [18] -Community and environmental services [106,[110][111][112]115] Community Support -Strategy to enhance farmers' willingness to join RFHs through emphasizing profit margins, information, transparency, and social engagement [19,29,50,102,106,113] 3.7. Research Gap of Regional Food Hubs Based on Food Value Chain Perspectsive…”

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Creating Food Value Chain Transformations through Regional Food Hubs: A Review Article

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This article synthesizes the evidence on food value chains (FVCs) and regional food hubs (RFHs) through a systematic literature review and suggests future research directions based on the gaps identified in the review. The number of publications on FVCs and RFHs is increasing, indicating that these topics are gaining interest among scholars from different countries and disciplines. Bibliometric analysis and preferred reporting items for systematic review and a meta-analysis (PRISMA) flow chart are used to identify the data from Scopus. The results show that FVCs are an innovative solution to improve the skills and capacity of smallholder farmers through collaborative networks that can match the functions of RFHs. RFHs connect local producers and customers by operating a business based on social entrepreneurship and ecological approaches to increase local economic viability and the sustainability of agriculture products. FVCs and RFHs are designed to respond to supply chain insecurity with value-based approaches in order to achieve sustainable nutrition for the local community. Further research on FVCs and RFHs emphasizes that the business model of regional development in developing countries can improve food security sustainability based on social entrepreneurship, and emphasizes the environmental aspect that it can use to support the sustainability of developing countries local food.

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Creating Food Value Chain Transformations through Regional Food Hubs: A Review Article

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“…This may, in part, explain why results of a recent qualitative study found that stakeholders wrongly perceived the charitable food system as contributing only negligibly to clients' diets overall (48) . In response to these structural inequities, some food banks have shifted to community-hub models where redistributing food is supplemented with additional activities, such as a Speaker's Bureau which focuses on leadership development and advocacy among food pantry clientele (36) , incorporation of a milk bank, policy change advocacy and benefits enrollment support (49) . Though the research team incorporated many of these innovations into strategies in the FB-HANA, additional efforts outside of the charitable food system are likely needed to address food access inequities.…”

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Development and evaluation of the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment

Nikolaus

Kownacki

Skaradzinski

et al. 2023

Public Health Nutr.

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Objective Efforts to improve the nutritional quality and health promotion in the charitable food system have been undertaken. Though methods exist to track these efforts in terms of food banks’ inventory, there are not research-tested tools to assess, monitor, and influence policy, systems, and environmental (PSE) changes. The study objective was to develop and evaluate a novel assessment tool that could be used to evaluate a food bank’s efforts to improve the promotion of health and nutritious foods. Design The study had five phases: 1) initial development, 2) iterative review and revisions, 3) pilot testing, 4) content validity assessment, and 5) inter-rater and test-retest assessment. The Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment (FB-HANA) was drafted after reviewing existing policies, nutrition-focused charitable food systems guidance, and similar tools for food pantries. Setting Midwestern United States. Participants Eleven food banks. Results Stakeholders and pilot testers provided initial feedback to refine the FB-HANA’s flow, ease of completion, and collection of contextual information. External experts rated the FB-HANA and each of the eight objectives as content valid. A set of two assessments completed by 26 community-based professionals, employed by Extension and 14 food bank staff across 11 food banks, supported moderate to excellent inter-rater and test-retest reliability for the FB-HANA overall, and each of its objectives. Conclusions Evidence suggests that the FB-HANA can be used by either food bank or community-based professionals, such as Extension staff, to provide a perspective on ways food banks promote health and nutrition through PSE approaches.

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“…Rather than acting simply as free food distributors, they are regarded as social service providers that serve as gateways to addressing the "real" issues behind the immediate need of hunger. As institutions on the front line of poverty, they are well placed to provide their clients with referrals to mental health, addiction, financial, and nutritional counselling, a role that has become increasingly institutionalised (Dave et al 2016;Strickland and Whitman 2020).…”

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Beyond a neoliberal critique of hunger: a genealogy of food charity in Aotearoa New Zealand

Riol

Connelly

2023

Agric Hum Values

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Since the 1980s, foodbanks have become a widespread solution to addressing hunger within high-income countries. The primary reason for their establishment has been widely recognised as neoliberal policies, particularly those that led to massive cuts in social welfare assistance. Foodbanks and hunger have subsequently been framed within a neoliberal critique. However, we argue that critiques of foodbanks are not unique to neoliberalism but have deeper historical roots, meaning that the part neoliberal policies have played is not as clear-cut. In order to understand the normalisation of foodbanks within society, and gain a more extensive understanding of hunger and appreciation as to how this issue could be addressed, it is therefore important to gain a historical understanding of food charity development. In this article, we achieve this by presenting a genealogy of food charity within Aotearoa New Zealand, which witnessed a fluctuation in the use of soup kitchens during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, and a rise of foodbanks in the 1980s and ‘90 s. Highlighting the historical parallels and major economic and cultural shifts that have allowed for the institutionalisation of foodbanks, we explore the patterns, parallels and differences exposed, and how they yield an alternative understanding of hunger. Using this analysis, we then discuss the wider implications of the historical foundations of food charity and hunger to better understand the role neoliberalism has played in the entrenchment of foodbanks, and advocate the importance of looking beyond a neoliberal critique in order to entertain alternative solutions to addressing food insecurity.

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Beyond Food Distribution: The Context of Food Bank Innovation in Alabama

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Creating Food Value Chain Transformations through Regional Food Hubs: A Review Article

Creating Food Value Chain Transformations through Regional Food Hubs: A Review Article

Development and evaluation of the Food Bank Health and Nutrition Assessment

Beyond a neoliberal critique of hunger: a genealogy of food charity in Aotearoa New Zealand

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