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Food Security

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Policy Research

Bonners and other students have researched a series issue briefs on food security this wiki which include data on the scope of the problem, model programs, past and current policies, and a directory of key organizations.  These issue briefs can be updated and localized to provide this information related to your state and city or county.

• Childhood Hunger and Nutrition

• Community Food Security 
• Food Insecurity and Disordered Eating   
• Food Security for Seniors and Adults with Disabilities
• Food Stamp Enrollment   
• Local Food 
• Urban Agriculture 

Articles

• Feeding America's Hunger Study 2010
• "Creating a Safety Net that Works When the Economy Doesn't: The Role of the Food Stamp and TANF Programs"
• The New York Times: "Once Stigmatized, Food Stamps Find Acceptance" 
• The New York Times: "Number of People Living on New York Streets Soars"
• Tent Cities in America: A Pacific Coast Report
• Colleges Open Food Banks to Battle Student Hunger, Nov 22, 2016 
• Report: Hunger On Campus:  The Challenge of Food Insecurity for College Students, October 2016 

Books

• Same Kind of Different as Me - it is a memoir written by a homeless man and a local art dealer that form a unique friendship through the dealer's volunteer work at a homeless shelter. The narration switches back and forth between the two men, providing a first-hand account from both perspectives of life on the streets and bridging the gap between two seemingly distinct worlds. [From Erin Payseur epayseur@columbiasc.edu]
• Ordinary Poverty:  A Little Food and a Little Cold Storage by Bill DiFazio, a full Professor of Sociology at St. John's University in New York City. It tells the story of hunger and homelessness by telling the story of individuals who come to Bread and Life for food, companionship and assistance.  St. John's Bread and Life provides a comprehensive set of services to the people who live in Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn-one of the poorest areas of the United States.  Bread and Life is also one of the largest soup kitchens in NYC and more information on this wonderful outreach program can be found at http://www.breadandlife.org  [From Janet Mangione mangionj@stjohns.edu]
• Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement written by Janet Poppendieck.  Tens of thousands of programs across the U.S. distribute free food to the hungry, a type of charity, according to the author, that "comes with a price tag." In a hard-hitting, radical analysis of a national crisis, Poppendieck, director of Hunter College's Center for the Study of Family Policy in New York City, calls the food programs a Band-Aid approach to deepening poverty, which counterproductively relieves pressure for more fundamental solutions by enabling government to shed its responsibility for the poor. Poppendieck, who has participated in or observed food distribution programs in nine states across the country, meticulously investigates the factors she cites as driving people to the soup kitchen or food pantry: low wages, unemployment, high housing costs, homelessness, disability and shrinking public-assistance benefits. She calls for a nationwide political movement to pursue an antipoverty, antihunger agenda vigorously through a reformed tax system, affordable housing, a stronger federal safety net and vastly improved public education and training. This is a book to prick the nation's conscience. [From Larry Meade LMeade@cns.gov]
• The Irresistible Revolution: Living as an Ordinary Radical
• Suggested readings by World Food Day
• Suggested readings by WHEAT

Documentaries/Videos

• Taylor's Campaign:  "Best documentary on homelessness in this era." Directed and Edited by Richard Cohen 
• http://www.videonewslive.com/view/358352/a_message_from_picture_the_homeless
• http://www.videonewslive.com/view/358119/the_homeless_creates_tent_city_in_new_york
• http://www.videonewslive.com/view/358334/prelude_to_housing_report_released_by_picture_the_homeless
• http://www.videonewslive.com/view/358363/the_homeless_take_over_building_in_east_harlemny
• http://www.videonewslive.com/view/358372/housing_not_warehousing_coalition
• Concord University: Student Homeless Challenge Project (part one of a student interview)
• Operation Blessing: N.Y. Non-Profit Distributes More Than 360,000 Meals (article with video link)

Podcasts

• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: 
• Food Stamps Information
• Food Insecurity
• Council on Foreign Relations:
• The Politics of Hunger 

Blogs/Websites

• Bread for the World Blog
• Hunger Notes
• Global Issues: 
• Causes of Poverty
• Food and Agriculture Issues
• Coalition on Human Needs
• SNAP
• Church World Service
• Stop Hunger Now 
• Oxfam America
• Hunger and Food Security 
• National Coalition for the Homeless

National Organizations 

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• Government 
• U.S. Department of Agriculture
• Congressional Hunger Center
• National Non-Profit Organizations
• College and University Food Bank Alliance
• CoFED 
• Universities Fighting World Hunger
• New Food Network 
• Real Food Challenge 
• Thought for Food 
• Presidents United to Solve Hunger 
• Advocacy 
• Bread for the World
• Community Food Security Coalition
• ONE Campaign
• Oxfam America 
• Second Harvest
• Heifer Project International
• Hunger Notes
• Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
• Face It Act Now (FIAN)
• Real Food Challenge:  The Real Food Challenge leverages the power of youth and universities to create a healthy, fair and green food system. Our primary campaign is to shift $1 billion of existing university food budgets away from industrial farms and junk food and towards local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources—what we call “real food”—by 2020.  The Real Food Challenge also maintains a national network of student food activists—providing opportunities for networking, learning, and leadership development for thousands of emerging leaders.
• Service
• Campus Kitchens
• United Way
• National Student Campaign Against Hunger and Homelessness
• Feeding America  
• Operation Blessing: Hunger Relief (see section pertaining to United States; includes videos)
• Move For Hunger  
• Local Non-Profits
• Bread for the World (local chapters)
• Soup kitchens and food banks
• Community Gardens and Farms; Second Harvest centers
• Food Stamp assistance programs and local government offices
• Restaurants and grocers