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Reimagining the Food Shelf: Conceptualizing the Food Shelf as a Community Food Security Project

  • Adam Pine
  • , Rebecca de Souza
  • , Mary Baumgartner

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Abstract

The Private Emergency Food Shelf (PEFS) system has been critiqued for its unhealthy food, stigmatizing environments, and relationships with corporate interests; however less has been said about how food shelves can transform their practices. This paper examines the PEFS system using the Community Food Security (CFS) framework. Drawing on qualitative research, we identify three ways food shelves can better respond to the lived realities of food insecure people: providing trauma-informed food support, healthy food access, and addressing spatial isolation. The discussion elaborates on how food shelves can offer food and serve as an entree to wider social support systems.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)165-183
Number of pages19
JournalJournal of Hunger and Environmental Nutrition
Volume19
Issue number2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024

Bibliographical note

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UN SDGs

This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

  1. SDG 2 - Zero Hunger
    SDG 2 Zero Hunger

Keywords

  • Hunger
  • charity
  • community food security
  • food justice
  • food shelves
  • mobility
  • transportation

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