Food assistance through “surplus” food: Insights from an ethnographic study of food bank work

By V. Tarasuk, J. Eakin. 2005

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Plant Science

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In General Health Professions

1. R. Loopstra
2. Naomi Dachner
3. V. Tarasuk

In Plant Science

1. R. Loopstra
2. V. Tarasuk

Citations in the corpus

• Food Bank Usage Is a Poor Indicator of Food Insecurity: Insights from Canada (2015, background): “…limitations in the amount of food and quality of food distributed, including foods that were past ‘best before’ dates, highly processed and superfluous and quantities that would only provide for one to three days’ worth at most (Tarasuk and Eakin, 2005; Irwin et al., 2007; Bocskei and Ostry, 2010).”
• Food banks, welfare, and food insecurity in Canada (2014, background): “Some federal and provincial funds have been allocated to support specific projects designed to improve food safety – an important consideration given the high volume of food donated to food banks by food producers, manufacturers, and retailers because it is no longer fit for retail (Tarasuk and Eaki”