Food Banks and Food Security: Welfare Reform, Human Rights and Social Policy. Lessons from Canada?

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‘Every Town Should Have One’: Emergency Food Banking in the UK (2012, background): “…in order to promote wider societal changes and the cause of those vulnerable people that they serve, these programmes need to play a prominent advocacy role, promoting longer-term and more fundamental solutions to poverty and food insecurity (Hawkes and Webster, 2000; Riches, 2002; Tarasuk, 2001).”
Food Bank Usage Is a Poor Indicator of Food Insecurity: Insights from Canada (2015, background): “This model of charitable food assistance began in the United States, but began to proliferate in Canada in the 1980s in response to what was identified as a growing number of people without work and in need, in the face of economic downturn and welfare retrenchment (Riches, 2002).”
Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work (2005, background): “Food banks have become an integral part of Canada’s system of income security programs (a system that includes provincial and municipal social assistance programs (welfare) and the federally administered Employment Insurance program) ( Riches, 2002 ).”