Andrew Fisher
Big Hunger
The Unholy Alliance Between Corporate America and Anti-Hunger Groups
MIT Press, 2018
What's inside?
Corporate partnerships have led anti-hunger groups to embrace failing strategies for solving America’s hunger problem.
Recommendation
America’s emergency food system was meant to be a temporary fix to food insecurity. Over time, however, this “Band-Aid” approach to hunger has become entrenched — and exacerbated the very issue it aims to help, says food security expert Andrew Fisher. Fighting the root causes of hunger often goes against the interests of those in power within anti-hunger organizations, many of whom have affiliations to Fortune 500 companies, he explains. Fisher calls on anti-hunger groups to challenge the broken status quo and push for radical economic and political reform and local, sustainable food systems.
Summary
About the Author
Andrew Fisher has been a leader in the sustainable food movement since the mid-1990s. He co-founded the Community Food Security Coalition, an organization working to create sustainable food systems on a local and regional level.
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