{"product_id":"kayleigh-garthwaite-hunger-inc-building-solidarity-beyond-the-food-bank","title":"Kayleigh Garthwaite: Hunger Inc.: Building Solidarity Beyond the Food Bank","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePluto Press, 2025, softcover, 192 pages, 14 x 21.6 cm\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 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 programmes are now entrenched ‘solutions’ to hunger. But who really benefits from them?\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHunger Inc.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Kayleigh Garthwaite travels across Britain, North America and Europe, working with food banks, co-ops, urban farms and food justice organisations. She documents the limitations of these programmes, 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eProposing radical key policies for governments, she 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ICA Bookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57595117797760,"sku":null,"price":16.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0012\/4390\/6109\/files\/61y-uWqzv-L._SY522.jpg?v=1773663366","url":"https:\/\/shop.ica.art\/products\/kayleigh-garthwaite-hunger-inc-building-solidarity-beyond-the-food-bank","provider":"ICA Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}