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Author Fisher, Andy, 1963- author.

Title Big hunger : the unholy alliance between corporate America and anti-hunger groups / Andrew Fisher ; foreword by Saru Jayaraman.

Publication Info. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017]
©2017

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 343 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Food, health, and the environment
Food, health, and the environment.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Occupy hunger -- The charity trap -- The politics of corporate giving -- The conflicted nature of SNAP -- Federal food programs as engines of economic democracy -- Who's at the table shapes what's on the menu -- Innovation within the anti-hunger movement -- Innovative models from outside the anti-hunger field.
Summary How to focus anti-hunger efforts not on charity but on the root causes of food insecurity, improving public health, and reducing income inequality.
Local Note eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America
Subject Corporations -- Charitable contributions.
Corporations -- Charitable contributions.
Nutrition policy.
Nutrition policy.
Malnutrition -- Prevention.
Malnutrition -- Prevention.
Malnutrition.
Food relief.
Food relief.
United States.
Indexed Term ECONOMICS/Environmental Economics
ENVIRONMENT/Food Studies
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Jayaraman, Sarumathi, 1975- writer of foreword.
Other Form: Print version: Fisher, Andy, 1963- Big hunger. Cambridge, MA : The MIT Press, [2017] 9780262036085 (DLC) 2016040544 (OCoLC)958066455
ISBN 9780262339513 (electronic book)
026233951X (electronic book)
9780262339520 (electronic book)
0262339528 (electronic book)
9780262036085
0262036088