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[[File:Passing out groceries.jpg|thumb|Volunteers pass out food items from a food pantry run by [[Feeding America]]]]
[[File:Fort Bragg Food Bank - November 2022 - Sarah Stierch.jpg|thumb|Fort Bragg Food Bank in [[Fort Bragg, California]]]]
A '''food bank''' is a non-profit, [[charitable organization]] that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid [[hunger]], usually through intermediaries like food pantries and [[soup kitchen]]s. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries.
[[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the [[2007–2008 world food price crisis|global increase in the price of food]] which began in late 2006, and especially after the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the [[2020s in economic history|inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s]] has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food <ref>{{cite web| title=MoneyWatch: More hungry Americans are using food banks for the first time|website=[[CBS News]] |date=29 August 2022 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-insecurity-inflation-food-banks-hunger/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/food-banks-face-inflation-struggles-surging-demand-never-seen-anything-like-this|title=Food banks face inflation struggles with surging demand: 'Never seen anything like this'|website=[[Fox Business]] |date=29 July 2022 }}</ref>
The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them as examples of active, caring citizenship. Other academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of food banks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that in some cases food banks can be inefficient compared with state-run [[welfare]].
==Operational models==
[[Image:Insidecafb.png|right|The warehouse of the [[Capital Area Food Bank]]|thumb]]
With thousands of food banks operating around the world, there are many different models.<ref name = "global history"/>
A major distinction between food banks is whether or not they operate on the "front line" model, giving out food directly to the hungry, or whether they operate with the "[[warehouse]]" model, supplying food to intermediaries like food pantries, soup kitchens and other front-line organizations.<ref>These organizations can be private or public, religious or secular. The type and nature of the recipient agency vary depending upon the policies of the food bank, the nature of their community, and the local laws where they operate.</ref> In the US, Australia and to an extent in Canada, the standard model is for food banks to act as warehouses rather than as suppliers to the end user, though there are exceptions. In other countries, food banks usually hand out food parcels direct to hungry people, providing the service that in the US is offered by ''food pantries''.
Another distinction is between the charity model and the labor union model. At least in Canada and the US, food banks run by charities often place relatively more weight on the salvaging of food that would otherwise go to waste, and on encouraging [[Volunteering|voluntarism]], whereas those run by unions can place greater emphasis on feeding the hungry by any means available, on providing work for the unemployed, and on education, especially on explaining to users their civil rights.<ref name=" welfare crisis">
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|title=Food banks and the welfare crisis|chapter=''passim'', see esp. Models of Food Banks|year=1986|isbn=0888103638|publisher=Lorimer}}</ref>
In the US, cities will often have a single food bank that acts as a centralized warehouse and will serve several hundred front-line agencies. Like a [[blood bank]], that warehouse serves as a single collection and distribution point for food donations. A food bank operates a lot like a for-profit food distributor, but in this case, it distributes food to charities, not to food retailers. There is often no charge to the charities, but some food banks do charge a small "shared maintenance" fee to help defray the cost of storage and distribution.
For many US food banks, most of their donated food comes from food left over from the normal processes of for-profit companies. It can come from any part of the food chain, e.g. from growers who have produced too much or whose food is not sufficiently visually appealing; from manufacturers who overproduced; or from retailers who over-ordered. Often the product is approaching or past its "sell by" date. In such cases, the food bank liaises with the food industry and with regulators to make sure the food is safe and legal to distribute and eat.
[[File:US Navy 111123-N-HW977-185 Sailors weigh Thanksgiving food drive donations before delivery to the Corona-Norco Settlement House.jpg|thumb|Volunteers weigh food drive donations.]]
Other sources of food include the general public, sometimes in the form of "[[food drive]]s", and government programs that buy and distribute excess farm products mostly to help support higher commodity prices. Food banks can also buy food either at market prices or from wholesalers and retailers at discounted prices, often at a cost. Sometimes farmers will allow food banks to send [[Gleaning|gleaners]] to salvage leftover crops for free once their primary harvest is complete. A few food banks have even taken over their farms, though such initiatives have not always been successful.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En|title=Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture|publisher=Chealsea Green Publishing|chapter=Chapt 19|year=1986|isbn=193339210X}}</ref>
Many food banks do not accept fresh produce, preferring canned or packaged food due to health and safety concerns, though some have tried to change this as part of a growing worldwide awareness of the importance of nutrition. As an example, in 2012, London Food Bank (Canada) started accepting perishable food, reporting that as well as the obvious health benefits, there were noticeable emotional benefits to recipients when they were given fresh food.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=18 July 2012|author=Ian Gillespie|date=17 July 2012|title=How to produce results|url=https://lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|work=London Free Press|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223916/http://www.lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Summer can be a challenging time for food banks, particularly in regions where school children are usually given regular free meals during term time. Spikes in demand can coincide with periods where donations fall due to folk being on holiday.<ref>{{cite web|title=Students swell summer demand for food banks|url=http://www.canada.com/Students+swell+summer+demand+food+banks/6915467/story.html|author=Lexi Bainas|date=11 July 2012|work=Canada.com|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|title=Food banks struggle during summer|author=Tracy Agnew|date=11 July 2012|work=Suffolk news herald|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223909/http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==United States==
===History===
[[File:US Navy 090806-N-6220J-004 Sailors and Navy Delayed Entry Program members serve breakfast to homeless men and women at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen in Salinas, Calif. during Salinas Navy Week community service event.jpg|thumb|left| In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian [[soup kitchen]]. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the [[United States Navy]] serving visitors.) ]]
The world's first food bank was [[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], founded by [[John van Hengel]] in 1967.<ref name="global history"/> According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, the hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.<ref name="sweet">{{cite book|author=Janet Poppendieck|title=Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement|chapter=Introduction, Chpt 1|year=1999|isbn=0140245561|publisher=Penguine}}</ref> By the mid-sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of [[Federal Surplus Relief Corporation|federal food surpluses]], instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/>
One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by [[soup kitchen]]s and similar civil society food relief agencies – some of these dated back to the [[Great Depression]] and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come",<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant|title=Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits|chapter=Chpt 3|year=2007|isbn=978-0470580349|publisher=Jossey-Bass}}</ref> the first food bank was created with the help of [[St. Mary's Basilica, Phoenix|St. Mary's Basilica]], which became the namesake of the organization.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstfoodbank.org/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204020809/http://www.firstfoodbank.org/history.html|title=About - St. Mary's Food Bank - Our Mission to End Hunger|archive-date=4 February 2010|website=St. Mary's Food Bank}}</ref>
Food banks spread across the United States, and Canada. By 1976, van Hengel had established the organization known today as [[Feeding America]]. As of the early 21st century, their network of over 200 food banks provides support for 90,000 projects. Other large networks exist such as [https://www.AmpleHarvest.org AmpleHarvest.org], created by [https://ampleharvest.org/CNN/ CNN Hero] and World Food Prize nominee Gary Oppenheimer which lists nearly 9,000 food pantries (1 out of every 4 in America) across all 50 states that are eager to receive surplus locally grown garden produce from any of America's 62 million home or community gardeners.<ref name="sweet" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |title=AmpleHarvest.org homepage |publisher=AmpleHarvest.org |date=17 May 2010 |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024094353/http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Free Soup For the Revolution.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Food not bombs]] a food bank and [[cooperative]] that distributes food]]
In the 1980s, U.S. food banks began to grow rapidly. A second response to the "rediscovery" of hunger in the mid-sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare. Until the 1980s, this approach had a greater impact.<ref name = "sweet"/> In the 1970s, U.S. Federal expenditure on hunger relief grew by about 500%, with food stamps distributed free of charge to those in greatest need. According to Poppendieck, welfare was widely considered preferable to grassroots efforts, as the latter could be unreliable and did not give recipients consumer-style choice in the same way as did food stamps. It also risked recipients feeling humiliated by having to turn to charity. In the early 1980s, [[Ronald Reagan]]'s administration scaled back welfare provision, leading to a rapid rise in activity from grassroots hunger relief agencies. According to a comprehensive government survey completed in 2002, over 90% of food banks were established in the US after 1981.<ref name="sweet"/><ref name=" Walter">{{cite book|editor=William A Dando|author=Andrew Walter|title=Food and Famine in the 21st Century|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|pages=171–181|year=2012|isbn=978-1-59884-730-7}}</ref> Poppendieck says that for the first few years after the change, there was vigorous opposition from the left, who argued that state welfare was much more suitable for meeting recipients needs. But in the decades that followed, food banks have become an accepted part of America's response to hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/><ref name = "WarwickConf"/> Demand for the services of US food banks increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|title=Recession and welfare reform increase hunger in US|publisher=World Socialist Web Site|author=Debra Watson|date=11 May 2002|access-date=6 September 2012|archive-date=28 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728040224/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
In Canada, foodbanks underwent a period of rapid growth after the cutbacks in welfare that took place in the mid-1990s.<ref name="welfare crisis" /> As early as the 1980s, food banks had also begun to spread from the United States to the rest of the world. The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant.<ref name="auto" /> In 2007, ''The Global Food Banking Network'' was formed.<ref name="global history">{{cite web|title=Global FoodBanking Network: History of Food Banking|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|access-date=20 June 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015031147/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|archive-date=15 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|title=John van Hengel Dies at 83; Founded 1st Food Bank in 1967|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Patricia Sullivan|date=8 October 2005|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514025359/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Food aid for pets===
Some U.S. cities have organizations that provide dog and cat food for pets whose owners qualify for food assistance. For example, ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia]] is considered the largest pet food aid agency in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], distributing over 800,000 pounds of dog and cat food in 2012.<ref name="ajc26">Oliviero, Helena. (25 February 2013). [http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ ''Pet food charity earns recognition for its work''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301040419/http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ |date=2013-03-01 }} Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 26 February 2013.</ref> ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' was started in 1997 by Tom Wargo, a repairman who was working in an elderly woman's home when he noticed her sharing her [[Meals On Wheels]] lunch with her pet cat because she could not afford cat food.<ref name="ajc26"/> Daffy's was one of seven non-profit organizations recognized by [[Barefoot Wine]] in 2013 through a $10,000 donation and by being featured on labels of the vintner's Impression Red Blend wines.<ref name="ajc26"/> Pet Buddies Food Pantry in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] is another example of an establishment that provides food aid for pets.<ref name="ajc26"/> The St. Augustine Humane Society in [[St. Augustine, Florida]], distributes over 1,600 pounds of pet food each month to families who are experiencing economic hardship and cannot afford to feed their pets.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
=== Food pantries for students ===
[[File:A food bank at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee.jpg|thumb|A food bank at [[Lee University]] in [[Cleveland, Tennessee]]]]
The college and University Food Bank Alliance, which was formed in 2012, has 570 campus food pantries nationwide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|title=On-campus food pantries help struggling students succeed in school|last=Esch|first=Mary|date=18 April 2018|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=23 November 2019|issn=0882-7729|archive-date=23 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123175846/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|url-status=live}}</ref> On-campus food pantries were available at 70% of [[State University of New York]] locations by 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/university-life/FITF-QuarterlyReport-March2019.pdf|title=Shared Practices: Food Insecurity Task Force, Quarterly Report, October–December 2018|date=March 2019|access-date=23 November 2019}}{{dead link|date=January 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
===After the 2007 financial crisis===
Following the [[financial crisis of 2007–08]], and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of individuals requesting help from American and Canadian food banks. By 2012, according to ''Food Banks Canada'', over 850,000 Canadians needed help from a food bank each month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|title=On World Food Day, October 16th, Food Banks Canada is asking Canadians to take action in support of local food banks|work=Foodbankscanada.ca|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200729/http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="UNofficial">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|title=UN official alarmed by the rise of food banks in UK|work=[[The Independent]]|author=Charlie Cooper|date=17 February 2013|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222061829/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For the United States, ''Gleaners Indiana Food bank'' reported in 2012 that there were then 50 million Americans struggling with food insecurity (about 1 in 6 of the population), with the number of individuals seeking help from food banks having increased by 46% since 2005.<ref>[http://www.gleaners.org/ Gleaners Indiana Food bank] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325142147/https://www.gleaners.org/ |date=2022-03-25 }} Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref> According to a 2012 [[UCLA School of Public Health#Research centers|UCLA Center for Health Policy Research]] study, there has been a 40% increase in demand for Californian food banks since 2008, with married couples who both work sometimes requiring the aid of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thousands More in Solano, Napa Counties are Turning to Food Banks|url=http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|author=Alex Ferreras|date=11 July 2012|access-date=11 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717045016/http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|archive-date=17 July 2012}}</ref> Dave Krepcho, Director of the ''Second Harvest Food Bank'' in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], has said that college-educated professional couples have begun to turn to food pantries.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|title=Going hungry in America: 'Distressing,' 'humbling' and 'scary'|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Tim Skillern|date=23 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823223929/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
By mid-2012, US food banks had expressed concerns about the expected difficulty in feeding the hungry over the coming months. Rapidly rising demand has been coinciding with higher [[food prices]] and with a decrease in donations, partly as the food industry is becoming more efficient and so has less mislabelled and other slightly defective food to give away. Also, there has been less surplus federal food on offer.<ref>Several food banks receive federal food surpluses as part of the [[Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program|Emergency Food Assistance Program]]. As the price of food was high throughout 2012, federal authorities were buying less on the market, and so had less to give away to food banks.</ref> Additionally, there have been recent decreases in government funding, and [[United States Congress|Congress]] has been debating possible further cuts, including potentially billions of dollars from the [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]] (food stamp program).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|title=City Food Banks Face Federal Funding Shortage - NY1.com|access-date=30 August 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223910/http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|archive-date=12 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|title=Food banks cope with funding cuts, drops in donations, higher demand|publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|author=Debra Duncan|date=23 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114012316/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|title=Food banks run short as federal government hands out less|work=Detroit Free Press|author=Marisol Bello|date=9 September 2012|access-date=10 September 2012|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921062041/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2012, [[Feeding America]] launched ''Hunger Action Month'', with events planned all over the nation. Food banks and other agencies involved hoped to raise awareness that about one in six Americans are struggling with hunger and to get more Americans involved in helping out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Anti-hunger efforts underway in area|work=BeloitDailyNews.com|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121005414/http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|title=Food banks spotlight hunger awareness|last=WELCH|first=KAREN SMITH|website=Amarillo Globe-News|language=en|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=27 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627094322/https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Food banks and COVID-19 ===
The [[COVID-19]] outbreak impacted European food banks since value chains were notably disrupted and food banks lacked the support of volunteers. Compared to 2019, the amount of food distributed increased in 2020. Possibly through an increase in people in need. At the same time, the deliveries of [[shelf-stable food]] decreased by 20% due to panic shopping/Hoarding, especially at the beginning of the crisis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Capodistrias |first1=Paula |last2=Szulecka |first2=Julia |last3=Corciolani |first3=Matteo |last4=Strøm-Andersen |first4=Nhat |date=2022-08-01 |title=European food banks and COVID-19: Resilience and innovation in times of crisis |journal=Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |language=en |volume=82 |pages=101187 |doi=10.1016/j.seps.2021.101187 |pmid=36406166 |issn=0038-0121 |pmc=9659435}}</ref>
==Europe==
The first European food bank was opened in [[France]] in 1984.<ref name = "global history"/> The first food bank in [[Italy]] was established in 1989. Similar to the UK's experience, food banks have become much more common across continental Europe since the crisis that began in 2008.
In [[Spain]], food banks can operate on the warehouse model, supplying a network of surrounding soup kitchens and other food relief agencies. The {{interlanguage link|Spanish federation of food banks|es|Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos}} helped to feed about 800,000 people during 2008–11, according to the [[Carrefour#Carrefour Foundation|Carrefour Foundation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|title=Spanish Federation of Food Banks|publisher=[[carrefour]]|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=30 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830094031/http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> By October 2014, Spain had 55 food banks in total, with the number who depend on them having increased to 1.5 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|title=Spanish recovery lays bare a social crisis|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Tobias Buck|date=30 October 2014|access-date=30 October 2014|url-access=registration|archive-date=2 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102003338/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Belgium]], food banks helped about 121,000 people in 2012. That was an increase of about 4,500 compared with 2011, the biggest increase since the start of the 2008 crisis. Belgian food banks account for about 65% of all food aid given out within the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|title=121,000 people get help from Food Banks|work=[[Expatica]]|date=18 March 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111214444/http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The number of food banks has increased rapidly in [[Germany]], a country that weathered the crisis relatively well, and did not implement severe austerity measures. In 2012, professor Sabine Pfeiffer of [[Munich University of Applied Sciences]] said there has been an "explosion" of food bank usage.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/>
===European Union programs===
While many European food banks have long been run by civil society with no government assistance, an EU-funded project, the ''Most deprived persons program'' (MDP), had specialized in supplying food to marginalized people who are not covered by the benefits system and who were in some cases reluctant to approach the more formal food banks. The program involved the EU buying surplus agricultural products, which were then distributed to the poor largely by Catholic churches. The MDP was wound down in late 2013 and was replaced by the [[Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived]] (FEAD), which is set to run until at least 2020. The FEAD program has a wider scope than the MDP, helping deprived people not just with food aid, but with social inclusion projects and housing. The actual methods employed by FEAD tend to vary from country to country, but in several EU states, such as Poland, its activities include helping to fund local food bank networks.<ref name="WarwickConf">{{cite news|url=http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230035/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 January 2013 |title=Household food security in the global north: challenges and responsibilities|publisher=[[Warwick University]] |date=6 July 2012 |access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|title=Free food for the most deprived persons in the EU (published by the European Commission)|publisher=Ec.europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=30 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030021214/http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|title=Poverty: Commission proposes new fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived - frequently asked questions (European Commission press release)|publisher=Europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210354/http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|chapter=3, 5|isbn=978-1138739758|publisher=[[Routledge]]|title=Food Bank Nations|year=2018}}</ref>
===United Kingdom===
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[[File:Barnet Food Hub 03.jpg|thumb|Barnet Food Hub, supplying food banks in the London Borough of Barnet. March 2021.]]
[[File:Food parcels 2.png|thumb|Food parcels given out by the Trussell Trust from 2005/06 to 2019/20.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101084101/http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|title=End of Year Stats|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029181337/https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gorb |first1=Aleksandra |last2=Francis-Devine |first2=Brigid |last3=Irvine |first3=Susannah |date=July 14, 2022 |title=Research Briefing: Food Banks in the UK |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |website=House of Commons Library |access-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821105637/https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Professor Jon May, of [[Queen Mary University of London]] and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years.
{{Blockquote|There are now food banks in almost every community, from the [[East End of London]] to the [[Cotswolds]]. The spread of food banks maps growing problems of poverty across the UK, but also the growing drive among many thousands of people across the country to try and do something about those problems.<ref name=" Guardian29/5/2017">[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan Report reveals scale of food bank use in the UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529171214/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan |date=2017-05-29 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
Though food banks were rarely seen in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century, their use has started to grow, especially in the 2000s, and have since dramatically expanded.<ref name=":1" /> The increase in the dependency on food banks has been blamed by some, such as ''Guardian'' columnist George Monbiot,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-19 |title=The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same {{!}} George Monbiot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519060112/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |url-status=live }}</ref> on the 2008 recession and the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government's [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] policies.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Nothing Left in the Cupboards |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |website=Human Rights Watch |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=en |date=20 May 2019 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222115025/https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |url-status=live }}</ref> These policies included cuts to the welfare state and caps on the total amount of welfare support that a family can claim.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austerity timeline |url=https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=Life on the Breadline |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132242/https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The OECD found that people answered yes to the question 'Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?' It decreased from 9.8% in 2007 to 8.1% in 2012,<ref name="oecd">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|title=Society at a Glance 2014 Highlights: UK OECD Social Indicators|access-date=2015-10-02|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092121/http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> with ''Spectator'' editor Toby Young speculating in 2015 that the initial rise was due to both more awareness of food banks, and [[Jobcentre]]s referring people to food banks when they were hungry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Toby |title=Was food poverty actually higher under the last Labour government? {{!}} The Spectator |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=www.spectator.co.uk |date=22 April 2015 |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132244/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |url-status=live }}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra, lecturer on [[nutrition]] at [[King's College London]] and food insecurity expert, said:
{{Blockquote|Recent national survey data suggests that 8% of adults experienced not having enough money for food over 2016 – this figure is likely to be many times more than the number helped by food banks. We need ongoing national survey monitoring to understand the scale of food insecurity, who is at risk, and the implications for child and adult health and wellbeing.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
Those who are short of food are likely to frequently also be short of other essential products, like shampoo and basic hygiene products (e.g. soap, toilet rolls and sanitary products). Some people must choose between buying food and buying basic toiletries.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |title=Poverty 'driving people to choose between eating or keeping clean' |date=27 July 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=27 July 2017 |archive-date=27 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727112554/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |url-status=live }}</ref>
As of January 2014, the largest group co-ordinating UK food banks was [[The Trussell Trust]], a Christian charity based organization in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK's food banks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basic,<ref>basic.org.uk</ref> about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as ''Fare Share'' and ''Food Cycle''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture |work=The Green Benches |author=Dr Éoin Clarke |date=24 January 2014 |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429063822/http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Before the [[Great Recession|2008 credit crunch]], food banks were "almost unheard of" in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|title=One Food Bank Opening In UK Every Four Days|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Frazer Maude, Sky News|date=21 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=23 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423203608/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks. <ref name = "Trussell"/><ref name="Hannah">{{cite web|url=http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|title=On the breadline: Foodbanks|publisher=[[University of Sheffield]]|date=5 February 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223911/http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|archive-date=12 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, about one new food bank was being opened per week. In 2012, the Trussell Trust reported that the rate of new openings had increased to three per week. In August, the rate of new openings spiked to four per week, with three new food banks being opened in that month for [[Nottingham]] alone.<ref name = "rise"/><ref name = "childrenFirst"/><ref name = "Amy"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|title=Food banks quadruple in Nottingham|publisher=[[ITV plc|ITV]]|date=22 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=28 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828212515/http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Demand from emergency food banks is 'still rising'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|work=BBC News|author=[[Declan Harvey]]|date=30 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=1 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901121520/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = "modell">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|title=Britain's hidden hunger|work=BBC News|author=David Model|date=30 October 2012|access-date=4 November 2012|author-link=David Model (journalist)|archive-date=2 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102012401/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2022 the number of food banks run by Trussell had risen to over 1,400.
Most UK food banks are hosted by churches in partnership with the wider community. They operate on the "frontline" model, giving out food directly to the hungry. Over 90% of the food given out is donated by the public, including schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The Trussell Trust had aimed to provide short-term support for people whose needs have not yet been addressed by official state welfare provision; those who had been "falling into the cracks in the system". The Trussell franchise has procedures which aim to prevent long-term dependency on their services and to ensure that those in need are referred to qualified outside agencies. The charity suggests that the ''credit crunch'' caused an upsurge in the number of people needing emergency food.
Since 2010, demand for food banks continued to increase, and at a more rapid rate, partly as [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] began to take effect, and partly as those on low incomes began to draw down savings and run out of friends of whom they were willing to ask for help. Unlike ''soup kitchens'',{{efn|Soup kitchens will typically feed anyone if they have food available, but they can often only provide a single meal. A food bank on the other hand will typically give a package of food sufficient to last for several days.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}}} most, but not all UK food banks are unable to help people who come in off the street without a referral – instead, they operate with a referral system. Vouchers are handed out to those in need by various sorts of frontline care professionals, such as [[social workers]], health visitors, [[Citizens Advice Bureau]]x, [[Jobcentre]]s and housing officials. The voucher can typically be exchanged at the food bank for a package of food sufficient to last three days. The year to April 2013 saw close to 350,000 referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks, more than double the amount from the previous year.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|title=More hard-up Britons turn to food banks|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Esther Bintliff|date=24 April 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|url-access=registration|archive-date=25 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425232424/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|url-status=live}}</ref>
Several food banks have been set up outside of the Trussell system, some faith-based, others secular <ref name="Guardian29/5/2017" /> in part as they do not like having to turn away people without referrals, although Trussell Trust food banks do help clients in need without vouchers to get one as quickly as possible. There is also [[FareShare]], a [[London]]-based charity which operates some nineteen depots on the American-style warehouse model. Rather than giving out food directly to individuals, FareShare distributes food to over 700 smaller agencies, mainly smaller independent operations like soup kitchens and breakfast clubs.<ref name="Trussell" /><ref name="rise">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|title=The rise and rise of the food bank|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=12 May 2012|access-date=18 June 2012|author-link=Rowenna Davis|archive-date=18 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618010038/http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="childrenFirst">{{cite news|title=Food banks: 'People would rather go without and feed their children first'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|work=The Guardian|author=Helen Carter|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309093557/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Amy">{{cite news|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|work=The Guardian|author=Amelia Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|title=How to set up a food bank in your local community|work=The Guardian|author=Caspar van Vark|date=20 June 2012|access-date=20 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214152/http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|title=Food banks across the UK: help us create a directory|work=The Guardian|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928040025/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2012|title=Food bank: We need more food to feed UK's hungry|work=The Daily Telegraph|author=Greg Morgan|date=27 September 2012|access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> Great emphasis is placed on reducing [[food waste]] as well as relieving food poverty. Fareshare operates on a business basis, employing several Managers to oversee operations alongside their army of volunteers. Employee costs constituted over 50% of their expenditure in both 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |title=Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2012 |work=[[Fareshare]] |year=2012 |access-date=22 April 2013 |archive-date=14 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314153958/http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
People who turn to food banks are typically grateful both for the food and for the warmth and kindness they receive from the volunteers.<ref name="Hannah" /> However, sometimes food banks have run out of supplies by the time they arrive.<ref name="Amy" /> Some find it humiliating to have to ask for food, and the packages they receive do not always seem nutritious.<ref name="Hannah" /> Some food banks have tried to respond with innovative programs; ''London Street Food bank'' for example began asking donors to send in supermarket vouchers so that those they serve will be able to choose food that best meets their nutritional needs.<ref name="Hannah" /><ref name="Amy" /><ref name="turn">{{cite news|title=More people turning to food banks|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|work=BBC News|date=28 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=1 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501111824/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=London Street Foodbank|url=http://www.londonfoodbank.co.uk |website=Londonfoodbank.co.uk|access-date=25 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518232754/http://londonfoodbank.co.uk/ |archivedate= 18 May 2013}}</ref>
The Trussell Trust revealed a 47% increase in several three-day emergency supplies provided by their food banks in December 2016 compared to the monthly average for the 2016–17 financial year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|title=Foodbanks expecting busiest Christmas ever against the backdrop of growing need - The Trussell Trust|date=29 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114605/https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|url-status=live}}</ref> Public donations in December 2016 meant foodbanks met the increased need in that month, but donations in January, February and March 2017 all fell below the monthly average of 931 tonnes for the 2016-17 financial year.
Although going for a few years by various small charities around the world, 2017 saw a significant increase in media coverage and take up of the reverse advent calendar. The UK Money bloggers campaign<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|title=No one should go hungry at Christmas - #FoodbankAdvent - UK Money Bloggers|date=5 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=23 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123005545/https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|url-status=live}}</ref> encouraging the public to give something to a food bank every day for 25 days was covered by ''The Mirror'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|title=Why the 'reverse advent calendar is the best thing you can do this December|first=Joshua|last=Barrie|website=[[Daily Mirror]]|date=2 November 2017|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404035055/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Guardian''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|title=How reverse advent calendars are helping food banks countdown to Christmas|first=Samantha|last=Stapley|date=1 December 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114651/https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> and others. Emma Revie of the [[Trussell Trust]] said, "for too many people, staying above water is a daily struggle".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 Foodbank charity gives record level of supplies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820085053/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 |date=2018-08-20 }} ''[[BBC]]''</ref>
Food bank use has increased since [[Universal Credit#Criticism|Universal Credit]] was implemented as part of the [[Welfare Reform Act 2012]]. Delays in providing the first payment force claimants to use food banks, also Universal Credit does not provide enough to cover basic living expenses. Claiming Universal Credit is complex and the system is hard to navigate, many claimants cannot afford internet access and cannot access online help with claiming. A report by the [[Trussell Trust]] says:
{{Blockquote|Rather than acting as a service to ensure people do not face destitution, the evidence suggests that for people on the very lowest incomes … the poor functioning of universal credit can actually push people into a tide of bills, debts and, ultimately, lead them to a food bank. People are falling through the cracks in a system not made to hold them. What little support available is primarily offered by the third sector, whose work is laudable, but cannot be a substitute for a real, nationwide safety net.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures People with 'nowhere else to turn' fuel rise in food bank use – study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424162258/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures |date=2018-04-24 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
UK food banks appealed for volunteers and supplies, fearing an increase in demand for food as Universal Credit was rolled out further.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out Food banks fear winter crisis as universal credit is rolled out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124221433/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out |date=2018-11-24 }} ''[[The Observer]]''</ref>
====UK food bank users====
{{See also|Hunger in the United Kingdom}}
{{update|section|date=September 2021}}
According to a May 2013 report by [[Oxfam]] and [[Church Action on Poverty]], about half a million Britons had used food banks. The Trussell Trust reports that their food banks alone helped feed 346,992 people in 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |title=''Walking the breadline : the scandal of food poverty in 21st century Britain'' - May 2013 report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty |access-date=25 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023025337/http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|title=Half a million Britons using food banks. What kind of country is this becoming?|work=The Guardian|author=John Harris (critic)|date=30 May 2013|access-date=9 June 2013|author-link=John Harris (critic)|archive-date=19 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819145653/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|url-status=live}}</ref> Numbers using food banks more than doubled during the period 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use |publisher=The Trussell Trust |access-date=2019-11-13 |archive-date=2015-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226212014/http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |url-status=live }}</ref> ''"Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems."'' Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include [[Layoff|redundancy]], sickness, delays over receiving [[:Category: United Kingdom pensions and benefits|benefits]], [[domestic violence]], family breakdown, [[debt]], and additional fuel costs in winter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|title=What we do|access-date=2021-01-04|archive-date=2022-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615110928/https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|url-status=live}}</ref> Some clients of foodbanks are at work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay.<ref name=" Davis 2012"/>
Close to half of those needing to use food banks have had issues with their benefit payments. [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|Sanctioning benefits]] was the single most frequent reason for food bank referrals and there has been criticism over sanctions being imposed for allegedly [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|spurious reasons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|title=Benefit sanctions hit over 900,000 claiming jobseeker's allowance|first1=Patrick|last1=Wintour|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084654/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|url-status=live}}</ref>
A joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a "[[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|sanction]]", where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Loopstra |first1=Rachel|title=Austerity, sanctions, and the rise of food banks in the UK|journal=BMJ |date=2015 |pages=2|url=http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |access-date=25 June 2015 |doi=10.1136/BMJ.h1775 |volume=350|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626113008/http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2015|hdl=10044/1/57549 |pmid=25854525| s2cid=45641347 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
Delays in payment of [[housing benefit]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=11 March 2017|date=30 May 2013|first=Mark|last=Sedgwick|title=What it is like to rely on food banks?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|work=BBC News|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110115420/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|url-status=live}}</ref> [[disability benefit]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|title=Disability payments delay 'forced claimants to use food banks'|date=14 May 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127045509/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|url-status=live}}</ref> and other benefits <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|title=Welfare delays cause soaring numbers using food banks|date=19 November 2014|work=Independent.co.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216211822/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and general [[Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] issues with benefits<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|title=The 'hidden hunger' in British families|first=Mario|last=Cacciottolo|date=7 October 2010|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=12 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112134114/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|url-status=live}}</ref> can force people to use food banks. Many further people who need food banks have low-income jobs but struggle to afford food after making debt repayments and all other expenses. Low-paid workers, [[part-time worker]]s and those with [[zero-hour contract]]s are particularly vulnerable to financial crisis and sometimes need the assistance of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|title=Food bank use tops million mark over the past year|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310223536/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|url-status=live}}</ref> As had been predicted, demand for food banks further increased after cuts to welfare came into effect in April 2013, which included the abolition of Crisis loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|title=Christmas dinner on a food parcel|date=18 December 2013|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422043243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2014, Trussell reported that they had handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. Several councils have begun looking at funding food banks to increase their capability, as cuts to their budgets mean they will be less able to help vulnerable people directly.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|title=Breadline Britain: councils fund food banks to plug holes in welfare state|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319151955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|title=The growing demand for food banks in breadline Britain|work=BBC News|author=Paul Mason|date=4 September 2012|access-date=8 September 2012|author-link=Paul Mason (journalist)|archive-date=8 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908053200/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|title=Food banks see 'shocking' rise in the number of users|work=BBC News|author=Brian Milligan|date=16 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2014|archive-date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417111127/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|url-status=live}}</ref>
Sabine Goodwin, an Independent Food Aid Network researcher, said most food bank workers reported increasing demand for food aid.
{{Blockquote|Many feel they are firefighting, finding a way to deal with the logistics of feeding more and more people, with no time to advocate for changes that would eradicate the need for food banks in the first place.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
====UK government====
According to an all-party parliamentary report released in December 2014, key reasons for the increased demand for UK foodbanks are delays in paying benefits, [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|welfare sanctions]], and the recent reversal of the post-WWII trend for poor people's incomes to rise above or in line with increased costs for housing, utility bills and food.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|title='Pay benefits faster' to reduce hunger, MPs urge|first=Hannah|last=Richardson|work=BBC News|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916182624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture|url=https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|publisher=The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger and Food Poverty in Britain|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=25 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225085648/https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Confront simple fact hunger stalks Britain' urges church-funded report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=11 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411105221/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2013, the UK Government blocked a £22,000,000 [[European Union]] fund to help finance food banks in the UK. This disappointed [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]], [[Richard Howitt (politician)|Richard Howitt]], who assisted in negotiating the fund. Howitt stated:
{{Blockquote|It is very sad that our government is opposing this much-needed help for foodbanks on the basis that it is a national responsibility, when in reality it has no intention of providing the help itself. The only conclusion is that Conservative anti-European ideology is being put before the needs of the most destitute and deprived in our society.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=11 March 2017|date=17 December 2013|first1=Nicholas|last1=Watt|title=Government under fire for rejecting European Union food bank funding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|work=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084550/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
[[Haroon Siddiqui]] said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] and feels the government is reluctant to admit the obvious link. Siddiqui said that during the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election campaign]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], [[Theresa May]] was asked about even nurses (then subject to a 1% annual pay freeze) using food banks and May merely replied,
"There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks." Siddiqui wrote further, "(...) the reasons people turn to food banks are quite plain (and there have been studies that support them). The [[Trussell Trust]], the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn". Earlier [in 2018] it said that food banks in areas where the full [[Universal Credit]] service had been in place for 12 months or more were four times as busy.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks Tories have avoided the truth over austerity and food banks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802112826/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks |date=2018-08-02 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>
Then-UK Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] said in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 2012 that he welcomed the efforts of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 23 May 2012 (pt 0001)|first=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons|last=Westminster|work=Parliament.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026110325/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Caroline Spelman]], his [[Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]], has described food banks as an "excellent example" of active citizenship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|first=Amelia|last=Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref> Labour MP [[Kate Green]] has a different view, feeling that the rise of food banks reflects people being let down by the [[Welfare State|state welfare system]], saying: "I feel a real burning anger about them ... People are very distressed at having to ask for food; it's humiliating and distressing."<ref name = "Amy"/> [[Cooking|Cookery]] [[writer]] and poverty campaigner [[Jack Monroe]] wrote that those referred to food banks or given vouchers were "the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong" and expressed concern for those who lack this support.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|title=Crisis? What crisis? How politicians ignore the existence of food banks|date=22 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311200110/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>
Food banks need extra donations during the summer holidays because school children do not receive free school meals during that time.{{by whom|date=September 2021}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |title=Food banks appeal for help to feed children during school holidays |date=3 August 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-date=3 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074243/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Germany===
As of 2013, there were over 900 food banks in Germany, up from just 1 in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|title=The rise of foodbanks in Germany is increasing the commodification of poverty without addressing its structural causes|date=11 July 2013|work=LSE.ac.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126151825/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, 1.5 million people a week used food banks in Germany.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|title=Food bank use tiny compared with Germany, says minister|date=14 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=24 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224013951/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|url-status=live}}</ref>{{update inline|date=September 2021}}
===France===
In total, around 3.5 million people rely on food banks in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |title=Dossier "Gaspillage Alimentaire, enjeux et pistes d'actions" |page=15 |access-date=2017-12-28 |archive-date=2017-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054031/https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> One provider, the Banque Alimentaire has over 100 branches in France, serving 200 a million meals a year to 1.85 million people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|title=How French law requires supermarkets to handover food|first=Peter|last=Allen|date=28 September 2016|website=www.standard.co.uk|access-date=27 December 2017|archive-date=28 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228112306/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Asia==
Several Asian places have begun to use food banks; these include [[Nepal]], [[South Korea]], [[Japan]] and [[Taiwan]].<ref name="focusTaiwan"/>
===Hong Kong===
The first food bank in Hong Kong is [[Feeding Hong Kong]], which was founded in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|title=Beating waste and putting food on plates for needy|last=Lee|first=Danny|work=South China Morning Post|date=2 September 2013|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-date=4 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104210148/http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Food Angel]] is also a food bank in Hong Kong<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|title=Food Angel - About|work=FoodAngel.org.hk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115110000/http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the Foodlink Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reduce Food Waste {{!}} Foodlink Foundation |url=https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.food link foundation.org |archive-date=2022-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517105358/https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Japan===
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Soaring prices take toll on Japan's food banks |date= 18 July 2022 |url= https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |access-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221215233647/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |url-status= live }}</ref> As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
==Africa==
The Egyptian Food Bank was established in Cairo in 2006, and less than ten years later, food banks run on similar principles spread to other Arab countries in [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|title=Food banks follow Cairo recipe|work=GulfNews.com|author=Jumana Al Tamimi|date=1 October 2012|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-date=3 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003071210/http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural [[Least developed country|LDCs]] such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centres to provide smallholders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |title=''The hunger project'', overview for Malawi |publisher=Thp.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724042611/http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Formed in 2009, Food Bank South Africa (Food Bank SA) is South Africa's national food banking network and a member of ''The Global Food Banking Network''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |title=FoodBank South Africa |work=Foodbank.org.za |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019192634/http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Worldwide==
Since the 1980s food banking has spread around the world. There are over 40 countries and regions with active food bank groups under the umbrella of The Global Food Banking Network.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.foodbanking.org |url=https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |title=Who We Are |access-date=2022-03-28 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409133444/https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/|title=Home - The Global FoodBanking Network|work=FoodBanking.org|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324025835/https://www.foodbanking.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Countries and regions in the international network include Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Africa, Hong Kong, [[Foodbank Singapore|Singapore]], South Korea and the UK. There are also several countries with food banks which have not yet joined the network, either because they do not yet meet the required criteria or they have not applied.<ref name="focusTaiwan">{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |title=Taiwan to enjoy support from international food banking network |work=[[Focus Taiwan]] |author=Elaine How |date=30 September 2012 |access-date=1 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113094443/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |archive-date=13 January 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |title=The Global Foodbanking Network |work=Foodbanking.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195410/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Climate change==
Food banking and related models have been proposed as a key solution to the reduction [[greenhouse gas]] emissions.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | title=Reduced Food Waste @ProjectDrawdown #ClimateSolutions | date=6 February 2020 | access-date=2 May 2023 | archive-date=2 May 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502084857/https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | url-status=live }}</ref> Around 8% of total emissions are due to food loss and waste.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |title=Food wastage footprint & Climate Change |last=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510155121/https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |archive-date=2023-05-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> Through [[food rescue]] programs, food banks help reduce emissions by ensuring the productive use of energy involved in the production of food and by diverting food away from [[landfills]], where it would have spoiled and generated [[methane]] and other greenhouse gasses.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | title=Food Waste and its Links to Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502050157/https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | url-status=live }}</ref> One estimate puts the greenhouse gas avoidance from food banks at more than 1.7 million tons in 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | title=GFN Member Food Banks Prevented 1.7 Million Tons of Carbon Emissions in 2021 by Reducing Food Loss and Waste | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502051659/https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | url-status=live }}</ref>
==Reactions and concerns==
[[File:Flickr - boellstiftung - Olivier de Schutter auf der EcoFair Konferenz.jpg|thumb|[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior [[United Nations]] official, has cautioned Europe against allowing food banks to become a permanent partial replacement for welfare provision, as is the case in the U.S. and Canada.]]
The rise of food banks has been "broadly welcomed". For it is said that "not only do they provide a solution to the problem of hunger that does not require resources from the state", but they can be viewed "as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship". In the UK for example, Patrick Butler, society editor for ''[[The Guardian]]'', has said that:
"Many politicians and campaigners are fascinated by the possibilities of food banks. After the initial shock that "things have come to this" there is, on the left of the political spectrum, a nervous excitement about the potential for community self-help. On the right, there is outright enthusiasm for what is seen as "big society" welfare in its purest form."<ref name="Lambeth">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|title=Food banks: Lambeth holds its breath, and its nose|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=25 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825214442/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|url-status=live}}</ref>
There has also been concern expressed about food banks by some researchers and politicians. Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s, American Sociology Professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can contribute to the long-term erosion of human rights and support for welfare systems. Once food banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for meeting the needs of hungry people to the state.
Poppendieck says that the logistics of running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind-hearted people from having time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to lobby politicians for long-term changes, that would help those on a low income. They often have considerable credibility with legislators. As of 2012,{{update inline|date=September 2021}} senior US food bank staff members have "expressed a preference" to remain politically neutral/refused to take a stand, which political activists have suggested may relate to their sources of funding/political pressure.<ref name="WarwickConf" /><ref name="Lambeth" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|title=Food Banks Expand Beyond Hunger|work=The New York Times|author=Phyllis Korrki|date=8 November 2012|access-date=11 November 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Davis 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|title=How food banks became mainstream: the new reality of the working poor|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=17 December 2012|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117003018/http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|archive-date=17 January 2013|author-link=Rowenna Davis}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|title=Let's debate our need for food banks – a national disgrace|work=[[The Guardian]]|author=Jack Monroe|date=18 December 2013|access-date=17 January 2014|author-link=Jack Monroe|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102122955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|url-status=live}}</ref>
The emergence of "Little Free Food Pantries" and "Blessing Boxes", modelled on the "[[Little Free Library|Little Free Libraries]]" boxes, has been criticized as feel-good local philanthropy which is too small to make a significant impact on hunger, for its lack of access to fresh foods, for food safety concerns, and as a public relations effort by [[Tyson Foods]], which seeks to cut federal [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program|SNAP]] food assistance in the US.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|title=What's Wrong With DIY Food Pantries|last=Capps|first=Kriston|date=25 July 2017|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|language=en|access-date=23 November 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214125326/https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra from [[University of Toronto]] has said food banks are often inefficient, unreliable and unable to supply nutritional food. She said a survey in Toronto found that only 1 in 5 families suffering from food insecurity would turn to food banks, in part because there is a stigma associated with having to do so.<ref name="Lambeth"/> Elizabeth Dowler, Professor of Food & Social Policy at [[Warwick University]], said that most British people prefer the state to take responsibility for helping the hungry. Hannah Lambie-Mumford, from [[Sheffield University]], echoed the view that some users of food banks find having to ask for food humiliating, and also that food bank volunteers should be encouraged to advocate for long-term solutions to the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/><ref name="Trussell">{{cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |title=The Trussell Trust Foodbank Network: Exploring the Growth of Foodbanks Across the UK |work=[[Coventry University]] |publisher=[[The Trussell Trust]] |author=Hannah Lambie-Mumford |date=11 November 2011 |access-date=23 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223915/http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name = "turn"/>
[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior United Nations official charged with ensuring governments honour their obligation to safeguard their citizens [[right to food]], has expressed alarm at the rise of food banks. He has reminded the governments of the advanced economies in Europe and Canada that they have a "duty to protect" their citizens from hunger, and suggested that leaving such an obligation to food banks may be an abuse of human rights.<ref name = "UNofficial"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|title=Food Poverty: UN Special Rapporteur Finds Austerity, Food Banks And Working Poor In UK 'Extremely Worrying'|publisher=Huffington Post|author=Jessica Elgot|date=19 February 2013|access-date=24 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222022205/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|title=Food banks can only plug the holes in social safety nets|publisher=[[Gulf News]]|author=Patrick Butler (Guardian society editor) and [[Olivier De Schutter]]|date=2 March 2013|access-date=3 March 2013|archive-date=5 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305004550/http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Other criticism expresses alarm at "transnational corporate food banking which construct[s] domestic hunger as a matter for charity, thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Food bank nations: poverty, corporate charity and the right to food|last=Riches, Graham|isbn=978-1-351-72987-1|location=Abingdon, Oxon|oclc=1032721366}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Food}}
* [[Ag Against Hunger]]
* [[Canstruction]]
* [[Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act]]
* [[FoodCloud]] (Ireland) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest|title=Lanka Railway Digest|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227004210/https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Food Not Bombs]]
* [[Food security]]
* [[Gleaners]]
* [[Good Shepherd Food Bank]]
* [[Hopelink]]
* [[List of food banks]]
* [[National Association of Letter Carriers#Letter carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive|National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive]]
* [[Northwest Harvest]]
* [[Olio (app)]]
* [[Poverty]]
==Notes==
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https://nc211.org/food-pantries-soup-kitchens/
==Further reading==
* Canice Prendergast. 2017. "How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' 31(4): 145–162.
* Canice Prendergast. 2022. "The Allocation of Food to Food Banks". ''Journal of Political Economy''.
==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425211450/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_find The Global Foodbank network - includes resources to find food banks throughout the world.]
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[[File:Passing out groceries.jpg|thumb|Volunteers pass out food items from a food pantry run by [[Feeding America]]]]
[[File:Fort Bragg Food Bank - November 2022 - Sarah Stierch.jpg|thumb|Fort Bragg Food Bank in [[Fort Bragg, California]]]]
A '''food bank''' is a non-profit, [[charitable organization]] that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid [[hunger]], usually through intermediaries like food pantries and [[soup kitchen]]s. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries.
[[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the [[2007–2008 world food price crisis|global increase in the price of food]] which began in late 2006, and especially after the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the [[2020s in economic history|inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s]] has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food <ref>{{cite web| title=MoneyWatch: More hungry Americans are using food banks for the first time|website=[[CBS News]] |date=29 August 2022 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-insecurity-inflation-food-banks-hunger/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/food-banks-face-inflation-struggles-surging-demand-never-seen-anything-like-this|title=Food banks face inflation struggles with surging demand: 'Never seen anything like this'|website=[[Fox Business]] |date=29 July 2022 }}</ref>
The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them as examples of active, caring citizenship. Other academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of food banks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that in some cases food banks can be inefficient compared with state-run [[welfare]].
==Operational models==
[[Image:Insidecafb.png|right|The warehouse of the [[Capital Area Food Bank]]|thumb]]
With thousands of food banks operating around the world, there are many different models.<ref name = "global history"/>
A major distinction between food banks is whether or not they operate on the "front line" model, giving out food directly to the hungry, or whether they operate with the "[[warehouse]]" model, supplying food to intermediaries like food pantries, soup kitchens and other front-line organizations.<ref>These organizations can be private or public, religious or secular. The type and nature of the recipient agency vary depending upon the policies of the food bank, the nature of their community, and the local laws where they operate.</ref> In the US, Australia and to an extent in Canada, the standard model is for food banks to act as warehouses rather than as suppliers to the end user, though there are exceptions. In other countries, food banks usually hand out food parcels direct to hungry people, providing the service that in the US is offered by ''food pantries''.
Another distinction is between the charity model and the labor union model. At least in Canada and the US, food banks run by charities often place relatively more weight on the salvaging of food that would otherwise go to waste, and on encouraging [[Volunteering|voluntarism]], whereas those run by unions can place greater emphasis on feeding the hungry by any means available, on providing work for the unemployed, and on education, especially on explaining to users their civil rights.<ref name=" welfare crisis">
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|title=Food banks and the welfare crisis|chapter=''passim'', see esp. Models of Food Banks|year=1986|isbn=0888103638|publisher=Lorimer}}</ref>
In the US, cities will often have a single food bank that acts as a centralized warehouse and will serve several hundred front-line agencies. Like a [[blood bank]], that warehouse serves as a single collection and distribution point for food donations. A food bank operates a lot like a for-profit food distributor, but in this case, it distributes food to charities, not to food retailers. There is often no charge to the charities, but some food banks do charge a small "shared maintenance" fee to help defray the cost of storage and distribution.
For many US food banks, most of their donated food comes from food left over from the normal processes of for-profit companies. It can come from any part of the food chain, e.g. from growers who have produced too much or whose food is not sufficiently visually appealing; from manufacturers who overproduced; or from retailers who over-ordered. Often the product is approaching or past its "sell by" date. In such cases, the food bank liaises with the food industry and with regulators to make sure the food is safe and legal to distribute and eat.
[[File:US Navy 111123-N-HW977-185 Sailors weigh Thanksgiving food drive donations before delivery to the Corona-Norco Settlement House.jpg|thumb|Volunteers weigh food drive donations.]]
Other sources of food include the general public, sometimes in the form of "[[food drive]]s", and government programs that buy and distribute excess farm products mostly to help support higher commodity prices. Food banks can also buy food either at market prices or from wholesalers and retailers at discounted prices, often at a cost. Sometimes farmers will allow food banks to send [[Gleaning|gleaners]] to salvage leftover crops for free once their primary harvest is complete. A few food banks have even taken over their farms, though such initiatives have not always been successful.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En|title=Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture|publisher=Chealsea Green Publishing|chapter=Chapt 19|year=1986|isbn=193339210X}}</ref>
Many food banks do not accept fresh produce, preferring canned or packaged food due to health and safety concerns, though some have tried to change this as part of a growing worldwide awareness of the importance of nutrition. As an example, in 2012, London Food Bank (Canada) started accepting perishable food, reporting that as well as the obvious health benefits, there were noticeable emotional benefits to recipients when they were given fresh food.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=18 July 2012|author=Ian Gillespie|date=17 July 2012|title=How to produce results|url=https://lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|work=London Free Press|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223916/http://www.lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Summer can be a challenging time for food banks, particularly in regions where school children are usually given regular free meals during term time. Spikes in demand can coincide with periods where donations fall due to folk being on holiday.<ref>{{cite web|title=Students swell summer demand for food banks|url=http://www.canada.com/Students+swell+summer+demand+food+banks/6915467/story.html|author=Lexi Bainas|date=11 July 2012|work=Canada.com|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|title=Food banks struggle during summer|author=Tracy Agnew|date=11 July 2012|work=Suffolk news herald|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223909/http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==United States==
===History===
[[File:US Navy 090806-N-6220J-004 Sailors and Navy Delayed Entry Program members serve breakfast to homeless men and women at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen in Salinas, Calif. during Salinas Navy Week community service event.jpg|thumb|left| In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian [[soup kitchen]]. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the [[United States Navy]] serving visitors.) ]]
The world's first food bank was [[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], founded by [[John van Hengel]] in 1967.<ref name="global history"/> According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, the hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.<ref name="sweet">{{cite book|author=Janet Poppendieck|title=Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement|chapter=Introduction, Chpt 1|year=1999|isbn=0140245561|publisher=Penguine}}</ref> By the mid-sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of [[Federal Surplus Relief Corporation|federal food surpluses]], instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/>
One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by [[soup kitchen]]s and similar civil society food relief agencies – some of these dated back to the [[Great Depression]] and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come",<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant|title=Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits|chapter=Chpt 3|year=2007|isbn=978-0470580349|publisher=Jossey-Bass}}</ref> the first food bank was created with the help of [[St. Mary's Basilica, Phoenix|St. Mary's Basilica]], which became the namesake of the organization.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstfoodbank.org/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204020809/http://www.firstfoodbank.org/history.html|title=About - St. Mary's Food Bank - Our Mission to End Hunger|archive-date=4 February 2010|website=St. Mary's Food Bank}}</ref>
Food banks spread across the United States, and Canada. By 1976, van Hengel had established the organization known today as [[Feeding America]]. As of the early 21st century, their network of over 200 food banks provides support for 90,000 projects. Other large networks exist such as [https://www.AmpleHarvest.org AmpleHarvest.org], created by [https://ampleharvest.org/CNN/ CNN Hero] and World Food Prize nominee Gary Oppenheimer which lists nearly 9,000 food pantries (1 out of every 4 in America) across all 50 states that are eager to receive surplus locally grown garden produce from any of America's 62 million home or community gardeners.<ref name="sweet" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |title=AmpleHarvest.org homepage |publisher=AmpleHarvest.org |date=17 May 2010 |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024094353/http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Free Soup For the Revolution.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Food not bombs]] a food bank and [[cooperative]] that distributes food]]
In the 1980s, U.S. food banks began to grow rapidly. A second response to the "rediscovery" of hunger in the mid-sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare. Until the 1980s, this approach had a greater impact.<ref name = "sweet"/> In the 1970s, U.S. Federal expenditure on hunger relief grew by about 500%, with food stamps distributed free of charge to those in greatest need. According to Poppendieck, welfare was widely considered preferable to grassroots efforts, as the latter could be unreliable and did not give recipients consumer-style choice in the same way as did food stamps. It also risked recipients feeling humiliated by having to turn to charity. In the early 1980s, [[Ronald Reagan]]'s administration scaled back welfare provision, leading to a rapid rise in activity from grassroots hunger relief agencies. According to a comprehensive government survey completed in 2002, over 90% of food banks were established in the US after 1981.<ref name="sweet"/><ref name=" Walter">{{cite book|editor=William A Dando|author=Andrew Walter|title=Food and Famine in the 21st Century|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|pages=171–181|year=2012|isbn=978-1-59884-730-7}}</ref> Poppendieck says that for the first few years after the change, there was vigorous opposition from the left, who argued that state welfare was much more suitable for meeting recipients needs. But in the decades that followed, food banks have become an accepted part of America's response to hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/><ref name = "WarwickConf"/> Demand for the services of US food banks increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|title=Recession and welfare reform increase hunger in US|publisher=World Socialist Web Site|author=Debra Watson|date=11 May 2002|access-date=6 September 2012|archive-date=28 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728040224/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
In Canada, foodbanks underwent a period of rapid growth after the cutbacks in welfare that took place in the mid-1990s.<ref name="welfare crisis" /> As early as the 1980s, food banks had also begun to spread from the United States to the rest of the world. The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant.<ref name="auto" /> In 2007, ''The Global Food Banking Network'' was formed.<ref name="global history">{{cite web|title=Global FoodBanking Network: History of Food Banking|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|access-date=20 June 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015031147/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|archive-date=15 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|title=John van Hengel Dies at 83; Founded 1st Food Bank in 1967|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Patricia Sullivan|date=8 October 2005|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514025359/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Food aid for pets===
Some U.S. cities have organizations that provide dog and cat food for pets whose owners qualify for food assistance. For example, ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia]] is considered the largest pet food aid agency in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], distributing over 800,000 pounds of dog and cat food in 2012.<ref name="ajc26">Oliviero, Helena. (25 February 2013). [http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ ''Pet food charity earns recognition for its work''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301040419/http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ |date=2013-03-01 }} Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 26 February 2013.</ref> ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' was started in 1997 by Tom Wargo, a repairman who was working in an elderly woman's home when he noticed her sharing her [[Meals On Wheels]] lunch with her pet cat because she could not afford cat food.<ref name="ajc26"/> Daffy's was one of seven non-profit organizations recognized by [[Barefoot Wine]] in 2013 through a $10,000 donation and by being featured on labels of the vintner's Impression Red Blend wines.<ref name="ajc26"/> Pet Buddies Food Pantry in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] is another example of an establishment that provides food aid for pets.<ref name="ajc26"/> The St. Augustine Humane Society in [[St. Augustine, Florida]], distributes over 1,600 pounds of pet food each month to families who are experiencing economic hardship and cannot afford to feed their pets.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
=== Food pantries for students ===
[[File:A food bank at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee.jpg|thumb|A food bank at [[Lee University]] in [[Cleveland, Tennessee]]]]
The college and University Food Bank Alliance, which was formed in 2012, has 570 campus food pantries nationwide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|title=On-campus food pantries help struggling students succeed in school|last=Esch|first=Mary|date=18 April 2018|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=23 November 2019|issn=0882-7729|archive-date=23 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123175846/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|url-status=live}}</ref> On-campus food pantries were available at 70% of [[State University of New York]] locations by 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/university-life/FITF-QuarterlyReport-March2019.pdf|title=Shared Practices: Food Insecurity Task Force, Quarterly Report, October–December 2018|date=March 2019|access-date=23 November 2019}}{{dead link|date=January 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
===After the 2007 financial crisis===
Following the [[financial crisis of 2007–08]], and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of individuals requesting help from American and Canadian food banks. By 2012, according to ''Food Banks Canada'', over 850,000 Canadians needed help from a food bank each month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|title=On World Food Day, October 16th, Food Banks Canada is asking Canadians to take action in support of local food banks|work=Foodbankscanada.ca|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200729/http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="UNofficial">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|title=UN official alarmed by the rise of food banks in UK|work=[[The Independent]]|author=Charlie Cooper|date=17 February 2013|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222061829/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For the United States, ''Gleaners Indiana Food bank'' reported in 2012 that there were then 50 million Americans struggling with food insecurity (about 1 in 6 of the population), with the number of individuals seeking help from food banks having increased by 46% since 2005.<ref>[http://www.gleaners.org/ Gleaners Indiana Food bank] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325142147/https://www.gleaners.org/ |date=2022-03-25 }} Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref> According to a 2012 [[UCLA School of Public Health#Research centers|UCLA Center for Health Policy Research]] study, there has been a 40% increase in demand for Californian food banks since 2008, with married couples who both work sometimes requiring the aid of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thousands More in Solano, Napa Counties are Turning to Food Banks|url=http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|author=Alex Ferreras|date=11 July 2012|access-date=11 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717045016/http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|archive-date=17 July 2012}}</ref> Dave Krepcho, Director of the ''Second Harvest Food Bank'' in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], has said that college-educated professional couples have begun to turn to food pantries.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|title=Going hungry in America: 'Distressing,' 'humbling' and 'scary'|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Tim Skillern|date=23 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823223929/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
By mid-2012, US food banks had expressed concerns about the expected difficulty in feeding the hungry over the coming months. Rapidly rising demand has been coinciding with higher [[food prices]] and with a decrease in donations, partly as the food industry is becoming more efficient and so has less mislabelled and other slightly defective food to give away. Also, there has been less surplus federal food on offer.<ref>Several food banks receive federal food surpluses as part of the [[Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program|Emergency Food Assistance Program]]. As the price of food was high throughout 2012, federal authorities were buying less on the market, and so had less to give away to food banks.</ref> Additionally, there have been recent decreases in government funding, and [[United States Congress|Congress]] has been debating possible further cuts, including potentially billions of dollars from the [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]] (food stamp program).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|title=City Food Banks Face Federal Funding Shortage - NY1.com|access-date=30 August 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223910/http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|archive-date=12 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|title=Food banks cope with funding cuts, drops in donations, higher demand|publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|author=Debra Duncan|date=23 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114012316/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|title=Food banks run short as federal government hands out less|work=Detroit Free Press|author=Marisol Bello|date=9 September 2012|access-date=10 September 2012|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921062041/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2012, [[Feeding America]] launched ''Hunger Action Month'', with events planned all over the nation. Food banks and other agencies involved hoped to raise awareness that about one in six Americans are struggling with hunger and to get more Americans involved in helping out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Anti-hunger efforts underway in area|work=BeloitDailyNews.com|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121005414/http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|title=Food banks spotlight hunger awareness|last=WELCH|first=KAREN SMITH|website=Amarillo Globe-News|language=en|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=27 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627094322/https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Food banks and COVID-19 ===
The [[COVID-19]] outbreak impacted European food banks since value chains were notably disrupted and food banks lacked the support of volunteers. Compared to 2019, the amount of food distributed increased in 2020. Possibly through an increase in people in need. At the same time, the deliveries of [[shelf-stable food]] decreased by 20% due to panic shopping/Hoarding, especially at the beginning of the crisis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Capodistrias |first1=Paula |last2=Szulecka |first2=Julia |last3=Corciolani |first3=Matteo |last4=Strøm-Andersen |first4=Nhat |date=2022-08-01 |title=European food banks and COVID-19: Resilience and innovation in times of crisis |journal=Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |language=en |volume=82 |pages=101187 |doi=10.1016/j.seps.2021.101187 |pmid=36406166 |issn=0038-0121 |pmc=9659435}}</ref>
==Europe==
The first European food bank was opened in [[France]] in 1984.<ref name = "global history"/> The first food bank in [[Italy]] was established in 1989. Similar to the UK's experience, food banks have become much more common across continental Europe since the crisis that began in 2008.
In [[Spain]], food banks can operate on the warehouse model, supplying a network of surrounding soup kitchens and other food relief agencies. The {{interlanguage link|Spanish federation of food banks|es|Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos}} helped to feed about 800,000 people during 2008–11, according to the [[Carrefour#Carrefour Foundation|Carrefour Foundation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|title=Spanish Federation of Food Banks|publisher=[[carrefour]]|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=30 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830094031/http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> By October 2014, Spain had 55 food banks in total, with the number who depend on them having increased to 1.5 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|title=Spanish recovery lays bare a social crisis|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Tobias Buck|date=30 October 2014|access-date=30 October 2014|url-access=registration|archive-date=2 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102003338/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Belgium]], food banks helped about 121,000 people in 2012. That was an increase of about 4,500 compared with 2011, the biggest increase since the start of the 2008 crisis. Belgian food banks account for about 65% of all food aid given out within the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|title=121,000 people get help from Food Banks|work=[[Expatica]]|date=18 March 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111214444/http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The number of food banks has increased rapidly in [[Germany]], a country that weathered the crisis relatively well, and did not implement severe austerity measures. In 2012, professor Sabine Pfeiffer of [[Munich University of Applied Sciences]] said there has been an "explosion" of food bank usage.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/>
===European Union programs===
While many European food banks have long been run by civil society with no government assistance, an EU-funded project, the ''Most deprived persons program'' (MDP), had specialized in supplying food to marginalized people who are not covered by the benefits system and who were in some cases reluctant to approach the more formal food banks. The program involved the EU buying surplus agricultural products, which were then distributed to the poor largely by Catholic churches. The MDP was wound down in late 2013 and was replaced by the [[Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived]] (FEAD), which is set to run until at least 2020. The FEAD program has a wider scope than the MDP, helping deprived people not just with food aid, but with social inclusion projects and housing. The actual methods employed by FEAD tend to vary from country to country, but in several EU states, such as Poland, its activities include helping to fund local food bank networks.<ref name="WarwickConf">{{cite news|url=http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230035/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 January 2013 |title=Household food security in the global north: challenges and responsibilities|publisher=[[Warwick University]] |date=6 July 2012 |access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|title=Free food for the most deprived persons in the EU (published by the European Commission)|publisher=Ec.europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=30 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030021214/http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|title=Poverty: Commission proposes new fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived - frequently asked questions (European Commission press release)|publisher=Europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210354/http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|chapter=3, 5|isbn=978-1138739758|publisher=[[Routledge]]|title=Food Bank Nations|year=2018}}</ref>
===United Kingdom===
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[[File:Barnet Food Hub 03.jpg|thumb|Barnet Food Hub, supplying food banks in the London Borough of Barnet. March 2021.]]
[[File:Food parcels 2.png|thumb|Food parcels given out by the Trussell Trust from 2005/06 to 2019/20.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101084101/http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|title=End of Year Stats|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029181337/https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gorb |first1=Aleksandra |last2=Francis-Devine |first2=Brigid |last3=Irvine |first3=Susannah |date=July 14, 2022 |title=Research Briefing: Food Banks in the UK |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |website=House of Commons Library |access-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821105637/https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Professor Jon May, of [[Queen Mary University of London]] and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years.
{{Blockquote|There are now food banks in almost every community, from the [[East End of London]] to the [[Cotswolds]]. The spread of food banks maps growing problems of poverty across the UK, but also the growing drive among many thousands of people across the country to try and do something about those problems.<ref name=" Guardian29/5/2017">[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan Report reveals scale of food bank use in the UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529171214/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan |date=2017-05-29 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
Though food banks were rarely seen in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century, their use has started to grow, especially in the 2000s, and have since dramatically expanded.<ref name=":1" /> The increase in the dependency on food banks has been blamed by some, such as ''Guardian'' columnist George Monbiot,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-19 |title=The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same {{!}} George Monbiot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519060112/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |url-status=live }}</ref> on the 2008 recession and the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government's [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] policies.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Nothing Left in the Cupboards |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |website=Human Rights Watch |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=en |date=20 May 2019 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222115025/https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |url-status=live }}</ref> These policies included cuts to the welfare state and caps on the total amount of welfare support that a family can claim.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austerity timeline |url=https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=Life on the Breadline |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132242/https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The OECD found that people answered yes to the question 'Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?' It decreased from 9.8% in 2007 to 8.1% in 2012,<ref name="oecd">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|title=Society at a Glance 2014 Highlights: UK OECD Social Indicators|access-date=2015-10-02|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092121/http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> with ''Spectator'' editor Toby Young speculating in 2015 that the initial rise was due to both more awareness of food banks, and [[Jobcentre]]s referring people to food banks when they were hungry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Toby |title=Was food poverty actually higher under the last Labour government? {{!}} The Spectator |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=www.spectator.co.uk |date=22 April 2015 |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132244/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |url-status=live }}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra, lecturer on [[nutrition]] at [[King's College London]] and food insecurity expert, said:
{{Blockquote|Recent national survey data suggests that 8% of adults experienced not having enough money for food over 2016 – this figure is likely to be many times more than the number helped by food banks. We need ongoing national survey monitoring to understand the scale of food insecurity, who is at risk, and the implications for child and adult health and wellbeing.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
Those who are short of food are likely to frequently also be short of other essential products, like shampoo and basic hygiene products (e.g. soap, toilet rolls and sanitary products). Some people must choose between buying food and buying basic toiletries.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |title=Poverty 'driving people to choose between eating or keeping clean' |date=27 July 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=27 July 2017 |archive-date=27 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727112554/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |url-status=live }}</ref>
As of January 2014, the largest group co-ordinating UK food banks was [[The Trussell Trust]], a Christian charity based organization in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK's food banks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basic,<ref>basic.org.uk</ref> about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as ''Fare Share'' and ''Food Cycle''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture |work=The Green Benches |author=Dr Éoin Clarke |date=24 January 2014 |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429063822/http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Before the [[Great Recession|2008 credit crunch]], food banks were "almost unheard of" in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|title=One Food Bank Opening In UK Every Four Days|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Frazer Maude, Sky News|date=21 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=23 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423203608/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks. <ref name = "Trussell"/><ref name="Hannah">{{cite web|url=http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|title=On the breadline: Foodbanks|publisher=[[University of Sheffield]]|date=5 February 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223911/http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|archive-date=12 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, about one new food bank was being opened per week. In 2012, the Trussell Trust reported that the rate of new openings had increased to three per week. In August, the rate of new openings spiked to four per week, with three new food banks being opened in that month for [[Nottingham]] alone.<ref name = "rise"/><ref name = "childrenFirst"/><ref name = "Amy"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|title=Food banks quadruple in Nottingham|publisher=[[ITV plc|ITV]]|date=22 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=28 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828212515/http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Demand from emergency food banks is 'still rising'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|work=BBC News|author=[[Declan Harvey]]|date=30 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=1 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901121520/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = "modell">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|title=Britain's hidden hunger|work=BBC News|author=David Model|date=30 October 2012|access-date=4 November 2012|author-link=David Model (journalist)|archive-date=2 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102012401/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2022 the number of food banks run by Trussell had risen to over 1,400.
Most UK food banks are hosted by churches in partnership with the wider community. They operate on the "frontline" model, giving out food directly to the hungry. Over 90% of the food given out is donated by the public, including schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The Trussell Trust had aimed to provide short-term support for people whose needs have not yet been addressed by official state welfare provision; those who had been "falling into the cracks in the system". The Trussell franchise has procedures which aim to prevent long-term dependency on their services and to ensure that those in need are referred to qualified outside agencies. The charity suggests that the ''credit crunch'' caused an upsurge in the number of people needing emergency food.
Since 2010, demand for food banks continued to increase, and at a more rapid rate, partly as [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] began to take effect, and partly as those on low incomes began to draw down savings and run out of friends of whom they were willing to ask for help. Unlike ''soup kitchens'',{{efn|Soup kitchens will typically feed anyone if they have food available, but they can often only provide a single meal. A food bank on the other hand will typically give a package of food sufficient to last for several days.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}}} most, but not all UK food banks are unable to help people who come in off the street without a referral – instead, they operate with a referral system. Vouchers are handed out to those in need by various sorts of frontline care professionals, such as [[social workers]], health visitors, [[Citizens Advice Bureau]]x, [[Jobcentre]]s and housing officials. The voucher can typically be exchanged at the food bank for a package of food sufficient to last three days. The year to April 2013 saw close to 350,000 referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks, more than double the amount from the previous year.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|title=More hard-up Britons turn to food banks|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Esther Bintliff|date=24 April 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|url-access=registration|archive-date=25 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425232424/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|url-status=live}}</ref>
Several food banks have been set up outside of the Trussell system, some faith-based, others secular <ref name="Guardian29/5/2017" /> in part as they do not like having to turn away people without referrals, although Trussell Trust food banks do help clients in need without vouchers to get one as quickly as possible. There is also [[FareShare]], a [[London]]-based charity which operates some nineteen depots on the American-style warehouse model. Rather than giving out food directly to individuals, FareShare distributes food to over 700 smaller agencies, mainly smaller independent operations like soup kitchens and breakfast clubs.<ref name="Trussell" /><ref name="rise">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|title=The rise and rise of the food bank|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=12 May 2012|access-date=18 June 2012|author-link=Rowenna Davis|archive-date=18 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618010038/http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="childrenFirst">{{cite news|title=Food banks: 'People would rather go without and feed their children first'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|work=The Guardian|author=Helen Carter|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309093557/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Amy">{{cite news|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|work=The Guardian|author=Amelia Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|title=How to set up a food bank in your local community|work=The Guardian|author=Caspar van Vark|date=20 June 2012|access-date=20 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214152/http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|title=Food banks across the UK: help us create a directory|work=The Guardian|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928040025/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2012|title=Food bank: We need more food to feed UK's hungry|work=The Daily Telegraph|author=Greg Morgan|date=27 September 2012|access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> Great emphasis is placed on reducing [[food waste]] as well as relieving food poverty. Fareshare operates on a business basis, employing several Managers to oversee operations alongside their army of volunteers. Employee costs constituted over 50% of their expenditure in both 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |title=Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2012 |work=[[Fareshare]] |year=2012 |access-date=22 April 2013 |archive-date=14 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314153958/http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
People who turn to food banks are typically grateful both for the food and for the warmth and kindness they receive from the volunteers.<ref name="Hannah" /> However, sometimes food banks have run out of supplies by the time they arrive.<ref name="Amy" /> Some find it humiliating to have to ask for food, and the packages they receive do not always seem nutritious.<ref name="Hannah" /> Some food banks have tried to respond with innovative programs; ''London Street Food bank'' for example began asking donors to send in supermarket vouchers so that those they serve will be able to choose food that best meets their nutritional needs.<ref name="Hannah" /><ref name="Amy" /><ref name="turn">{{cite news|title=More people turning to food banks|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|work=BBC News|date=28 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=1 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501111824/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=London Street Foodbank|url=http://www.londonfoodbank.co.uk |website=Londonfoodbank.co.uk|access-date=25 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518232754/http://londonfoodbank.co.uk/ |archivedate= 18 May 2013}}</ref>
The Trussell Trust revealed a 47% increase in several three-day emergency supplies provided by their food banks in December 2016 compared to the monthly average for the 2016–17 financial year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|title=Foodbanks expecting busiest Christmas ever against the backdrop of growing need - The Trussell Trust|date=29 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114605/https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|url-status=live}}</ref> Public donations in December 2016 meant foodbanks met the increased need in that month, but donations in January, February and March 2017 all fell below the monthly average of 931 tonnes for the 2016-17 financial year.
Although going for a few years by various small charities around the world, 2017 saw a significant increase in media coverage and take up of the reverse advent calendar. The UK Money bloggers campaign<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|title=No one should go hungry at Christmas - #FoodbankAdvent - UK Money Bloggers|date=5 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=23 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123005545/https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|url-status=live}}</ref> encouraging the public to give something to a food bank every day for 25 days was covered by ''The Mirror'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|title=Why the 'reverse advent calendar is the best thing you can do this December|first=Joshua|last=Barrie|website=[[Daily Mirror]]|date=2 November 2017|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404035055/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Guardian''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|title=How reverse advent calendars are helping food banks countdown to Christmas|first=Samantha|last=Stapley|date=1 December 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114651/https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> and others. Emma Revie of the [[Trussell Trust]] said, "for too many people, staying above water is a daily struggle".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 Foodbank charity gives record level of supplies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820085053/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 |date=2018-08-20 }} ''[[BBC]]''</ref>
Food bank use has increased since [[Universal Credit#Criticism|Universal Credit]] was implemented as part of the [[Welfare Reform Act 2012]]. Delays in providing the first payment force claimants to use food banks, also Universal Credit does not provide enough to cover basic living expenses. Claiming Universal Credit is complex and the system is hard to navigate, many claimants cannot afford internet access and cannot access online help with claiming. A report by the [[Trussell Trust]] says:
{{Blockquote|Rather than acting as a service to ensure people do not face destitution, the evidence suggests that for people on the very lowest incomes … the poor functioning of universal credit can actually push people into a tide of bills, debts and, ultimately, lead them to a food bank. People are falling through the cracks in a system not made to hold them. What little support available is primarily offered by the third sector, whose work is laudable, but cannot be a substitute for a real, nationwide safety net.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures People with 'nowhere else to turn' fuel rise in food bank use – study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424162258/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures |date=2018-04-24 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
UK food banks appealed for volunteers and supplies, fearing an increase in demand for food as Universal Credit was rolled out further.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out Food banks fear winter crisis as universal credit is rolled out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124221433/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out |date=2018-11-24 }} ''[[The Observer]]''</ref>
====UK food bank users====
{{See also|Hunger in the United Kingdom}}
{{update|section|date=September 2021}}
According to a May 2013 report by [[Oxfam]] and [[Church Action on Poverty]], about half a million Britons had used food banks. The Trussell Trust reports that their food banks alone helped feed 346,992 people in 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |title=''Walking the breadline : the scandal of food poverty in 21st century Britain'' - May 2013 report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty |access-date=25 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023025337/http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|title=Half a million Britons using food banks. What kind of country is this becoming?|work=The Guardian|author=John Harris (critic)|date=30 May 2013|access-date=9 June 2013|author-link=John Harris (critic)|archive-date=19 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819145653/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|url-status=live}}</ref> Numbers using food banks more than doubled during the period 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use |publisher=The Trussell Trust |access-date=2019-11-13 |archive-date=2015-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226212014/http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |url-status=live }}</ref> ''"Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems."'' Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include [[Layoff|redundancy]], sickness, delays over receiving [[:Category: United Kingdom pensions and benefits|benefits]], [[domestic violence]], family breakdown, [[debt]], and additional fuel costs in winter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|title=What we do|access-date=2021-01-04|archive-date=2022-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615110928/https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|url-status=live}}</ref> Some clients of foodbanks are at work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay.<ref name=" Davis 2012"/>
Close to half of those needing to use food banks have had issues with their benefit payments. [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|Sanctioning benefits]] was the single most frequent reason for food bank referrals and there has been criticism over sanctions being imposed for allegedly [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|spurious reasons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|title=Benefit sanctions hit over 900,000 claiming jobseeker's allowance|first1=Patrick|last1=Wintour|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084654/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|url-status=live}}</ref>
A joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a "[[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|sanction]]", where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Loopstra |first1=Rachel|title=Austerity, sanctions, and the rise of food banks in the UK|journal=BMJ |date=2015 |pages=2|url=http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |access-date=25 June 2015 |doi=10.1136/BMJ.h1775 |volume=350|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626113008/http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2015|hdl=10044/1/57549 |pmid=25854525| s2cid=45641347 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
Delays in payment of [[housing benefit]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=11 March 2017|date=30 May 2013|first=Mark|last=Sedgwick|title=What it is like to rely on food banks?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|work=BBC News|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110115420/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|url-status=live}}</ref> [[disability benefit]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|title=Disability payments delay 'forced claimants to use food banks'|date=14 May 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127045509/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|url-status=live}}</ref> and other benefits <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|title=Welfare delays cause soaring numbers using food banks|date=19 November 2014|work=Independent.co.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216211822/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and general [[Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] issues with benefits<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|title=The 'hidden hunger' in British families|first=Mario|last=Cacciottolo|date=7 October 2010|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=12 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112134114/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|url-status=live}}</ref> can force people to use food banks. Many further people who need food banks have low-income jobs but struggle to afford food after making debt repayments and all other expenses. Low-paid workers, [[part-time worker]]s and those with [[zero-hour contract]]s are particularly vulnerable to financial crisis and sometimes need the assistance of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|title=Food bank use tops million mark over the past year|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310223536/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|url-status=live}}</ref> As had been predicted, demand for food banks further increased after cuts to welfare came into effect in April 2013, which included the abolition of Crisis loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|title=Christmas dinner on a food parcel|date=18 December 2013|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422043243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2014, Trussell reported that they had handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. Several councils have begun looking at funding food banks to increase their capability, as cuts to their budgets mean they will be less able to help vulnerable people directly.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|title=Breadline Britain: councils fund food banks to plug holes in welfare state|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319151955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|title=The growing demand for food banks in breadline Britain|work=BBC News|author=Paul Mason|date=4 September 2012|access-date=8 September 2012|author-link=Paul Mason (journalist)|archive-date=8 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908053200/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|title=Food banks see 'shocking' rise in the number of users|work=BBC News|author=Brian Milligan|date=16 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2014|archive-date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417111127/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|url-status=live}}</ref>
Sabine Goodwin, an Independent Food Aid Network researcher, said most food bank workers reported increasing demand for food aid.
{{Blockquote|Many feel they are firefighting, finding a way to deal with the logistics of feeding more and more people, with no time to advocate for changes that would eradicate the need for food banks in the first place.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
====UK government====
According to an all-party parliamentary report released in December 2014, key reasons for the increased demand for UK foodbanks are delays in paying benefits, [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|welfare sanctions]], and the recent reversal of the post-WWII trend for poor people's incomes to rise above or in line with increased costs for housing, utility bills and food.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|title='Pay benefits faster' to reduce hunger, MPs urge|first=Hannah|last=Richardson|work=BBC News|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916182624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture|url=https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|publisher=The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger and Food Poverty in Britain|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=25 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225085648/https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Confront simple fact hunger stalks Britain' urges church-funded report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=11 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411105221/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2013, the UK Government blocked a £22,000,000 [[European Union]] fund to help finance food banks in the UK. This disappointed [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]], [[Richard Howitt (politician)|Richard Howitt]], who assisted in negotiating the fund. Howitt stated:
{{Blockquote|It is very sad that our government is opposing this much-needed help for foodbanks on the basis that it is a national responsibility, when in reality it has no intention of providing the help itself. The only conclusion is that Conservative anti-European ideology is being put before the needs of the most destitute and deprived in our society.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=11 March 2017|date=17 December 2013|first1=Nicholas|last1=Watt|title=Government under fire for rejecting European Union food bank funding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|work=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084550/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
[[Haroon Siddiqui]] said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] and feels the government is reluctant to admit the obvious link. Siddiqui said that during the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election campaign]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], [[Theresa May]] was asked about even nurses (then subject to a 1% annual pay freeze) using food banks and May merely replied,
"There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks." Siddiqui wrote further, "(...) the reasons people turn to food banks are quite plain (and there have been studies that support them). The [[Trussell Trust]], the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn". Earlier [in 2018] it said that food banks in areas where the full [[Universal Credit]] service had been in place for 12 months or more were four times as busy.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks Tories have avoided the truth over austerity and food banks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802112826/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks |date=2018-08-02 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>
Then-UK Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] said in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 2012 that he welcomed the efforts of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 23 May 2012 (pt 0001)|first=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons|last=Westminster|work=Parliament.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026110325/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Caroline Spelman]], his [[Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]], has described food banks as an "excellent example" of active citizenship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|first=Amelia|last=Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref> Labour MP [[Kate Green]] has a different view, feeling that the rise of food banks reflects people being let down by the [[Welfare State|state welfare system]], saying: "I feel a real burning anger about them ... People are very distressed at having to ask for food; it's humiliating and distressing."<ref name = "Amy"/> [[Cooking|Cookery]] [[writer]] and poverty campaigner [[Jack Monroe]] wrote that those referred to food banks or given vouchers were "the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong" and expressed concern for those who lack this support.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|title=Crisis? What crisis? How politicians ignore the existence of food banks|date=22 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311200110/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>
Food banks need extra donations during the summer holidays because school children do not receive free school meals during that time.{{by whom|date=September 2021}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |title=Food banks appeal for help to feed children during school holidays |date=3 August 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-date=3 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074243/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Germany===
As of 2013, there were over 900 food banks in Germany, up from just 1 in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|title=The rise of foodbanks in Germany is increasing the commodification of poverty without addressing its structural causes|date=11 July 2013|work=LSE.ac.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126151825/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, 1.5 million people a week used food banks in Germany.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|title=Food bank use tiny compared with Germany, says minister|date=14 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=24 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224013951/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|url-status=live}}</ref>{{update inline|date=September 2021}}
===France===
In total, around 3.5 million people rely on food banks in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |title=Dossier "Gaspillage Alimentaire, enjeux et pistes d'actions" |page=15 |access-date=2017-12-28 |archive-date=2017-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054031/https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> One provider, the Banque Alimentaire has over 100 branches in France, serving 200 a million meals a year to 1.85 million people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|title=How French law requires supermarkets to handover food|first=Peter|last=Allen|date=28 September 2016|website=www.standard.co.uk|access-date=27 December 2017|archive-date=28 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228112306/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Asia==
Several Asian places have begun to use food banks; these include [[Nepal]], [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[Taiwan]] <ref name="focusTaiwan" /> and [[Singapore]].
===Hong Kong===
The first food bank in Hong Kong is [[Feeding Hong Kong]], which was founded in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|title=Beating waste and putting food on plates for needy|last=Lee|first=Danny|work=South China Morning Post|date=2 September 2013|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-date=4 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104210148/http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Food Angel]] is also a food bank in Hong Kong<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|title=Food Angel - About|work=FoodAngel.org.hk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115110000/http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the Foodlink Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reduce Food Waste {{!}} Foodlink Foundation |url=https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.food link foundation.org |archive-date=2022-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517105358/https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Japan===
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Soaring prices take toll on Japan's food banks |date= 18 July 2022 |url= https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |access-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221215233647/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |url-status= live }}</ref> As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
=== Singapore ===
Founded in 2012, The [[Food Bank Singapore]] is a registered charity and part of The Global Foodbanking Network (GFN) that has an outreach of over 50 countries. [https://www.foodfromtheheart.sg/ Food from the Heart] and [https://jfb.jamiyah.org.sg/ Jamiyah FoodBank] are also 2 other food banks in the food-insecure nation of Singapore.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Channel News Asia |date=16 Feb 2020 |title=Why in a cheap food paradise, some Singaporeans are still going hungry |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cnainsider/food-insecurity-singapore-hunger-poverty-777806 |url-status=live |access-date=22 Jul 2024 |work=Channel News Asia}}</ref>
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==Africa==
The Egyptian Food Bank was established in Cairo in 2006, and less than ten years later, food banks run on similar principles spread to other Arab countries in [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|title=Food banks follow Cairo recipe|work=GulfNews.com|author=Jumana Al Tamimi|date=1 October 2012|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-date=3 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003071210/http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural [[Least developed country|LDCs]] such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centres to provide smallholders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |title=''The hunger project'', overview for Malawi |publisher=Thp.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724042611/http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Formed in 2009, Food Bank South Africa (Food Bank SA) is South Africa's national food banking network and a member of ''The Global Food Banking Network''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |title=FoodBank South Africa |work=Foodbank.org.za |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019192634/http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Worldwide==
Since the 1980s food banking has spread around the world. There are over 40 countries and regions with active food bank groups under the umbrella of The Global Food Banking Network.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.foodbanking.org |url=https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |title=Who We Are |access-date=2022-03-28 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409133444/https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/|title=Home - The Global FoodBanking Network|work=FoodBanking.org|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324025835/https://www.foodbanking.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Countries and regions in the international network include Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Africa, Hong Kong, [[Foodbank Singapore|Singapore]], South Korea and the UK. There are also several countries with food banks which have not yet joined the network, either because they do not yet meet the required criteria or they have not applied.<ref name="focusTaiwan">{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |title=Taiwan to enjoy support from international food banking network |work=[[Focus Taiwan]] |author=Elaine How |date=30 September 2012 |access-date=1 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113094443/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |archive-date=13 January 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |title=The Global Foodbanking Network |work=Foodbanking.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195410/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Climate change==
Food banking and related models have been proposed as a key solution to the reduction [[greenhouse gas]] emissions.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | title=Reduced Food Waste @ProjectDrawdown #ClimateSolutions | date=6 February 2020 | access-date=2 May 2023 | archive-date=2 May 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502084857/https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | url-status=live }}</ref> Around 8% of total emissions are due to food loss and waste.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |title=Food wastage footprint & Climate Change |last=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510155121/https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |archive-date=2023-05-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> Through [[food rescue]] programs, food banks help reduce emissions by ensuring the productive use of energy involved in the production of food and by diverting food away from [[landfills]], where it would have spoiled and generated [[methane]] and other greenhouse gasses.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | title=Food Waste and its Links to Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502050157/https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | url-status=live }}</ref> One estimate puts the greenhouse gas avoidance from food banks at more than 1.7 million tons in 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | title=GFN Member Food Banks Prevented 1.7 Million Tons of Carbon Emissions in 2021 by Reducing Food Loss and Waste | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502051659/https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | url-status=live }}</ref>
==Reactions and concerns==
[[File:Flickr - boellstiftung - Olivier de Schutter auf der EcoFair Konferenz.jpg|thumb|[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior [[United Nations]] official, has cautioned Europe against allowing food banks to become a permanent partial replacement for welfare provision, as is the case in the U.S. and Canada.]]
The rise of food banks has been "broadly welcomed". For it is said that "not only do they provide a solution to the problem of hunger that does not require resources from the state", but they can be viewed "as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship". In the UK for example, Patrick Butler, society editor for ''[[The Guardian]]'', has said that:
"Many politicians and campaigners are fascinated by the possibilities of food banks. After the initial shock that "things have come to this" there is, on the left of the political spectrum, a nervous excitement about the potential for community self-help. On the right, there is outright enthusiasm for what is seen as "big society" welfare in its purest form."<ref name="Lambeth">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|title=Food banks: Lambeth holds its breath, and its nose|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=25 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825214442/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|url-status=live}}</ref>
There has also been concern expressed about food banks by some researchers and politicians. Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s, American Sociology Professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can contribute to the long-term erosion of human rights and support for welfare systems. Once food banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for meeting the needs of hungry people to the state.
Poppendieck says that the logistics of running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind-hearted people from having time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to lobby politicians for long-term changes, that would help those on a low income. They often have considerable credibility with legislators. As of 2012,{{update inline|date=September 2021}} senior US food bank staff members have "expressed a preference" to remain politically neutral/refused to take a stand, which political activists have suggested may relate to their sources of funding/political pressure.<ref name="WarwickConf" /><ref name="Lambeth" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|title=Food Banks Expand Beyond Hunger|work=The New York Times|author=Phyllis Korrki|date=8 November 2012|access-date=11 November 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Davis 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|title=How food banks became mainstream: the new reality of the working poor|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=17 December 2012|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117003018/http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|archive-date=17 January 2013|author-link=Rowenna Davis}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|title=Let's debate our need for food banks – a national disgrace|work=[[The Guardian]]|author=Jack Monroe|date=18 December 2013|access-date=17 January 2014|author-link=Jack Monroe|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102122955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|url-status=live}}</ref>
The emergence of "Little Free Food Pantries" and "Blessing Boxes", modelled on the "[[Little Free Library|Little Free Libraries]]" boxes, has been criticized as feel-good local philanthropy which is too small to make a significant impact on hunger, for its lack of access to fresh foods, for food safety concerns, and as a public relations effort by [[Tyson Foods]], which seeks to cut federal [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program|SNAP]] food assistance in the US.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|title=What's Wrong With DIY Food Pantries|last=Capps|first=Kriston|date=25 July 2017|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|language=en|access-date=23 November 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214125326/https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra from [[University of Toronto]] has said food banks are often inefficient, unreliable and unable to supply nutritional food. She said a survey in Toronto found that only 1 in 5 families suffering from food insecurity would turn to food banks, in part because there is a stigma associated with having to do so.<ref name="Lambeth"/> Elizabeth Dowler, Professor of Food & Social Policy at [[Warwick University]], said that most British people prefer the state to take responsibility for helping the hungry. Hannah Lambie-Mumford, from [[Sheffield University]], echoed the view that some users of food banks find having to ask for food humiliating, and also that food bank volunteers should be encouraged to advocate for long-term solutions to the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/><ref name="Trussell">{{cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |title=The Trussell Trust Foodbank Network: Exploring the Growth of Foodbanks Across the UK |work=[[Coventry University]] |publisher=[[The Trussell Trust]] |author=Hannah Lambie-Mumford |date=11 November 2011 |access-date=23 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223915/http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name = "turn"/>
[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior United Nations official charged with ensuring governments honour their obligation to safeguard their citizens [[right to food]], has expressed alarm at the rise of food banks. He has reminded the governments of the advanced economies in Europe and Canada that they have a "duty to protect" their citizens from hunger, and suggested that leaving such an obligation to food banks may be an abuse of human rights.<ref name = "UNofficial"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|title=Food Poverty: UN Special Rapporteur Finds Austerity, Food Banks And Working Poor In UK 'Extremely Worrying'|publisher=Huffington Post|author=Jessica Elgot|date=19 February 2013|access-date=24 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222022205/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|title=Food banks can only plug the holes in social safety nets|publisher=[[Gulf News]]|author=Patrick Butler (Guardian society editor) and [[Olivier De Schutter]]|date=2 March 2013|access-date=3 March 2013|archive-date=5 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305004550/http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Other criticism expresses alarm at "transnational corporate food banking which construct[s] domestic hunger as a matter for charity, thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Food bank nations: poverty, corporate charity and the right to food|last=Riches, Graham|isbn=978-1-351-72987-1|location=Abingdon, Oxon|oclc=1032721366}}</ref>
==See also==
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* [[Ag Against Hunger]]
* [[Canstruction]]
* [[Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act]]
* [[FoodCloud]] (Ireland) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest|title=Lanka Railway Digest|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227004210/https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Food Not Bombs]]
* [[Food security]]
* [[Gleaners]]
* [[Good Shepherd Food Bank]]
* [[Hopelink]]
* [[List of food banks]]
* [[National Association of Letter Carriers#Letter carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive|National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive]]
* [[Northwest Harvest]]
* [[Olio (app)]]
* [[Poverty]]
==Notes==
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==Further reading==
* Canice Prendergast. 2017. "How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' 31(4): 145–162.
* Canice Prendergast. 2022. "The Allocation of Food to Food Banks". ''Journal of Political Economy''.
==References==
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==External links==
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* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120425211450/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_find The Global Foodbank network - includes resources to find food banks throughout the world.]
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According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Soaring prices take toll on Japan's food banks |date= 18 July 2022 |url= https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |access-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221215233647/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |url-status= live }}</ref> As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Volunteers pass out food items from a food pantry run by Feeding America
Fort Bragg Food Bank in Fort Bragg, California
A food bank is a non-profit, charitable organization that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and soup kitchens. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries.
St. Mary's Food Bank was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the global increase in the price of food which began in late 2006, and especially after the financial crisis of 2007–2008 began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food [1][2]
The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them as examples of active, caring citizenship. Other academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of food banks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that in some cases food banks can be inefficient compared with state-run welfare.
Contents
1 Operational models
2 United States
2.1 History
2.2 Food aid for pets
2.3 Food pantries for students
2.4 After the 2007 financial crisis
2.5 Food banks and COVID-19
3 Europe
3.1 European Union programs
3.2 United Kingdom
3.2.1 UK food bank users
3.2.2 UK government
3.3 Germany
3.4 France
4 Asia
4.1 Hong Kong
4.2 Japan
4.3 Singapore
5 Africa
6 Worldwide
7 Climate change
8 Reactions and concerns
9 See also
10 Notes
11 Further reading
12 References
13 External links
Operational models[edit]
The warehouse of the Capital Area Food Bank
With thousands of food banks operating around the world, there are many different models.[3]
A major distinction between food banks is whether or not they operate on the "front line" model, giving out food directly to the hungry, or whether they operate with the "warehouse" model, supplying food to intermediaries like food pantries, soup kitchens and other front-line organizations.[4] In the US, Australia and to an extent in Canada, the standard model is for food banks to act as warehouses rather than as suppliers to the end user, though there are exceptions. In other countries, food banks usually hand out food parcels direct to hungry people, providing the service that in the US is offered by food pantries.
Another distinction is between the charity model and the labor union model. At least in Canada and the US, food banks run by charities often place relatively more weight on the salvaging of food that would otherwise go to waste, and on encouraging voluntarism, whereas those run by unions can place greater emphasis on feeding the hungry by any means available, on providing work for the unemployed, and on education, especially on explaining to users their civil rights.[5]
In the US, cities will often have a single food bank that acts as a centralized warehouse and will serve several hundred front-line agencies. Like a blood bank, that warehouse serves as a single collection and distribution point for food donations. A food bank operates a lot like a for-profit food distributor, but in this case, it distributes food to charities, not to food retailers. There is often no charge to the charities, but some food banks do charge a small "shared maintenance" fee to help defray the cost of storage and distribution.
For many US food banks, most of their donated food comes from food left over from the normal processes of for-profit companies. It can come from any part of the food chain, e.g. from growers who have produced too much or whose food is not sufficiently visually appealing; from manufacturers who overproduced; or from retailers who over-ordered. Often the product is approaching or past its "sell by" date. In such cases, the food bank liaises with the food industry and with regulators to make sure the food is safe and legal to distribute and eat.
Volunteers weigh food drive donations.
Other sources of food include the general public, sometimes in the form of "food drives", and government programs that buy and distribute excess farm products mostly to help support higher commodity prices. Food banks can also buy food either at market prices or from wholesalers and retailers at discounted prices, often at a cost. Sometimes farmers will allow food banks to send gleaners to salvage leftover crops for free once their primary harvest is complete. A few food banks have even taken over their farms, though such initiatives have not always been successful.[6]
Many food banks do not accept fresh produce, preferring canned or packaged food due to health and safety concerns, though some have tried to change this as part of a growing worldwide awareness of the importance of nutrition. As an example, in 2012, London Food Bank (Canada) started accepting perishable food, reporting that as well as the obvious health benefits, there were noticeable emotional benefits to recipients when they were given fresh food.[7]
Summer can be a challenging time for food banks, particularly in regions where school children are usually given regular free meals during term time. Spikes in demand can coincide with periods where donations fall due to folk being on holiday.[8][9]
United States[edit]
History[edit]
In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian soup kitchen. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the United States Navy serving visitors.)
The world's first food bank was St. Mary's Food Bank in Phoenix, Arizona, founded by John van Hengel in 1967.[3] According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, the hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.[10] By the mid-sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of federal food surpluses, instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger.[10]
One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by soup kitchens and similar civil society food relief agencies – some of these dated back to the Great Depression and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come",[11] the first food bank was created with the help of St. Mary's Basilica, which became the namesake of the organization.[12]
Food banks spread across the United States, and Canada. By 1976, van Hengel had established the organization known today as Feeding America. As of the early 21st century, their network of over 200 food banks provides support for 90,000 projects. Other large networks exist such as AmpleHarvest.org, created by CNN Hero and World Food Prize nominee Gary Oppenheimer which lists nearly 9,000 food pantries (1 out of every 4 in America) across all 50 states that are eager to receive surplus locally grown garden produce from any of America's 62 million home or community gardeners.[10][13]
Food not bombs a food bank and cooperative that distributes food
In the 1980s, U.S. food banks began to grow rapidly. A second response to the "rediscovery" of hunger in the mid-sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare. Until the 1980s, this approach had a greater impact.[10] In the 1970s, U.S. Federal expenditure on hunger relief grew by about 500%, with food stamps distributed free of charge to those in greatest need. According to Poppendieck, welfare was widely considered preferable to grassroots efforts, as the latter could be unreliable and did not give recipients consumer-style choice in the same way as did food stamps. It also risked recipients feeling humiliated by having to turn to charity. In the early 1980s, Ronald Reagan's administration scaled back welfare provision, leading to a rapid rise in activity from grassroots hunger relief agencies. According to a comprehensive government survey completed in 2002, over 90% of food banks were established in the US after 1981.[10][14] Poppendieck says that for the first few years after the change, there was vigorous opposition from the left, who argued that state welfare was much more suitable for meeting recipients needs. But in the decades that followed, food banks have become an accepted part of America's response to hunger.[10][15] Demand for the services of US food banks increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with Bill Clinton's Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.[16]
In Canada, foodbanks underwent a period of rapid growth after the cutbacks in welfare that took place in the mid-1990s.[5] As early as the 1980s, food banks had also begun to spread from the United States to the rest of the world. The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant.[12] In 2007, The Global Food Banking Network was formed.[3][17]
Food aid for pets[edit]
Some U.S. cities have organizations that provide dog and cat food for pets whose owners qualify for food assistance. For example, Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen in Lawrenceville, Georgia is considered the largest pet food aid agency in Georgia, distributing over 800,000 pounds of dog and cat food in 2012.[18] Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen was started in 1997 by Tom Wargo, a repairman who was working in an elderly woman's home when he noticed her sharing her Meals On Wheels lunch with her pet cat because she could not afford cat food.[18] Daffy's was one of seven non-profit organizations recognized by Barefoot Wine in 2013 through a $10,000 donation and by being featured on labels of the vintner's Impression Red Blend wines.[18] Pet Buddies Food Pantry in Atlanta, Georgia is another example of an establishment that provides food aid for pets.[18] The St. Augustine Humane Society in St. Augustine, Florida, distributes over 1,600 pounds of pet food each month to families who are experiencing economic hardship and cannot afford to feed their pets.[citation needed]
Food pantries for students[edit]
A food bank at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee
The college and University Food Bank Alliance, which was formed in 2012, has 570 campus food pantries nationwide.[19] On-campus food pantries were available at 70% of State University of New York locations by 2019.[20]
After the 2007 financial crisis[edit]
Following the financial crisis of 2007–08, and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of individuals requesting help from American and Canadian food banks. By 2012, according to Food Banks Canada, over 850,000 Canadians needed help from a food bank each month.[21][22] For the United States, Gleaners Indiana Food bank reported in 2012 that there were then 50  million Americans struggling with food insecurity (about 1 in 6 of the population), with the number of individuals seeking help from food banks having increased by 46% since 2005.[23] According to a 2012 UCLA Center for Health Policy Research study, there has been a 40% increase in demand for Californian food banks since 2008, with married couples who both work sometimes requiring the aid of food banks.[24] Dave Krepcho, Director of the Second Harvest Food Bank in Orlando, has said that college-educated professional couples have begun to turn to food pantries.[25]
By mid-2012, US food banks had expressed concerns about the expected difficulty in feeding the hungry over the coming months. Rapidly rising demand has been coinciding with higher food prices and with a decrease in donations, partly as the food industry is becoming more efficient and so has less mislabelled and other slightly defective food to give away. Also, there has been less surplus federal food on offer.[26] Additionally, there have been recent decreases in government funding, and Congress has been debating possible further cuts, including potentially billions of dollars from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (food stamp program).[27][28][29] In September 2012, Feeding America launched Hunger Action Month, with events planned all over the nation. Food banks and other agencies involved hoped to raise awareness that about one in six Americans are struggling with hunger and to get more Americans involved in helping out.[30][31]
Food banks and COVID-19[edit]
The COVID-19 outbreak impacted European food banks since value chains were notably disrupted and food banks lacked the support of volunteers. Compared to 2019, the amount of food distributed increased in 2020. Possibly through an increase in people in need. At the same time, the deliveries of shelf-stable food decreased by 20% due to panic shopping/Hoarding, especially at the beginning of the crisis.[32]
Europe[edit]
The first European food bank was opened in France in 1984.[3] The first food bank in Italy was established in 1989. Similar to the UK's experience, food banks have become much more common across continental Europe since the crisis that began in 2008.
In Spain, food banks can operate on the warehouse model, supplying a network of surrounding soup kitchens and other food relief agencies. The Spanish federation of food banks [es] helped to feed about 800,000 people during 2008–11, according to the Carrefour Foundation.[33] By October 2014, Spain had 55 food banks in total, with the number who depend on them having increased to 1.5  million.[34]
In Belgium, food banks helped about 121,000 people in 2012. That was an increase of about 4,500 compared with 2011, the biggest increase since the start of the 2008 crisis. Belgian food banks account for about 65% of all food aid given out within the country.[35]
The number of food banks has increased rapidly in Germany, a country that weathered the crisis relatively well, and did not implement severe austerity measures. In 2012, professor Sabine Pfeiffer of Munich University of Applied Sciences said there has been an "explosion" of food bank usage.[15]
European Union programs[edit]
While many European food banks have long been run by civil society with no government assistance, an EU-funded project, the Most deprived persons program (MDP), had specialized in supplying food to marginalized people who are not covered by the benefits system and who were in some cases reluctant to approach the more formal food banks. The program involved the EU buying surplus agricultural products, which were then distributed to the poor largely by Catholic churches. The MDP was wound down in late 2013 and was replaced by the Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (FEAD), which is set to run until at least 2020. The FEAD program has a wider scope than the MDP, helping deprived people not just with food aid, but with social inclusion projects and housing. The actual methods employed by FEAD tend to vary from country to country, but in several EU states, such as Poland, its activities include helping to fund local food bank networks.[15][36][37][38]
United Kingdom[edit]
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Barnet Food Hub, supplying food banks in the London Borough of Barnet. March 2021.
Food parcels given out by the Trussell Trust from 2005/06 to 2019/20.[39][40]
In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK.[41]
Professor Jon May, of Queen Mary University of London and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years.
.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequote .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;padding-left:1.6em;margin-top:0}There are now food banks in almost every community, from the East End of London to the Cotswolds. The spread of food banks maps growing problems of poverty across the UK, but also the growing drive among many thousands of people across the country to try and do something about those problems.[42]
Though food banks were rarely seen in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century, their use has started to grow, especially in the 2000s, and have since dramatically expanded.[39] The increase in the dependency on food banks has been blamed by some, such as Guardian columnist George Monbiot,[43] on the 2008 recession and the Conservative government's austerity policies.[44] These policies included cuts to the welfare state and caps on the total amount of welfare support that a family can claim.[45] The OECD found that people answered yes to the question 'Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?' It decreased from 9.8% in 2007 to 8.1% in 2012,[46] with Spectator editor Toby Young speculating in 2015 that the initial rise was due to both more awareness of food banks, and Jobcentres referring people to food banks when they were hungry.[47]
Rachel Loopstra, lecturer on nutrition at King's College London and food insecurity expert, said:
Recent national survey data suggests that 8% of adults experienced not having enough money for food over 2016 – this figure is likely to be many times more than the number helped by food banks. We need ongoing national survey monitoring to understand the scale of food insecurity, who is at risk, and the implications for child and adult health and wellbeing.[42]
Those who are short of food are likely to frequently also be short of other essential products, like shampoo and basic hygiene products (e.g. soap, toilet rolls and sanitary products). Some people must choose between buying food and buying basic toiletries.[48]
As of January 2014, the largest group co-ordinating UK food banks was The Trussell Trust, a Christian charity based organization in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK's food banks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basic,[49] about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as Fare Share and Food Cycle.[50]
Before the 2008 credit crunch, food banks were "almost unheard of" in the UK.[51] In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks. [52][53] In 2011, about one new food bank was being opened per week. In 2012, the Trussell Trust reported that the rate of new openings had increased to three per week. In August, the rate of new openings spiked to four per week, with three new food banks being opened in that month for Nottingham alone.[54][55][56][57][58][59] In 2022 the number of food banks run by Trussell had risen to over 1,400.
Most UK food banks are hosted by churches in partnership with the wider community. They operate on the "frontline" model, giving out food directly to the hungry. Over 90% of the food given out is donated by the public, including schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The Trussell Trust had aimed to provide short-term support for people whose needs have not yet been addressed by official state welfare provision; those who had been "falling into the cracks in the system". The Trussell franchise has procedures which aim to prevent long-term dependency on their services and to ensure that those in need are referred to qualified outside agencies. The charity suggests that the credit crunch caused an upsurge in the number of people needing emergency food.
Since 2010, demand for food banks continued to increase, and at a more rapid rate, partly as austerity began to take effect, and partly as those on low incomes began to draw down savings and run out of friends of whom they were willing to ask for help. Unlike soup kitchens,[a] most, but not all UK food banks are unable to help people who come in off the street without a referral – instead, they operate with a referral system. Vouchers are handed out to those in need by various sorts of frontline care professionals, such as social workers, health visitors, Citizens Advice Bureaux, Jobcentres and housing officials. The voucher can typically be exchanged at the food bank for a package of food sufficient to last three days. The year to April 2013 saw close to 350,000 referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks, more than double the amount from the previous year.[60]
Several food banks have been set up outside of the Trussell system, some faith-based, others secular [42] in part as they do not like having to turn away people without referrals, although Trussell Trust food banks do help clients in need without vouchers to get one as quickly as possible. There is also FareShare, a London-based charity which operates some nineteen depots on the American-style warehouse model. Rather than giving out food directly to individuals, FareShare distributes food to over 700 smaller agencies, mainly smaller independent operations like soup kitchens and breakfast clubs.[52][54][55][56][61][62][63] Great emphasis is placed on reducing food waste as well as relieving food poverty. Fareshare operates on a business basis, employing several Managers to oversee operations alongside their army of volunteers. Employee costs constituted over 50% of their expenditure in both 2011 and 2012.[64]
People who turn to food banks are typically grateful both for the food and for the warmth and kindness they receive from the volunteers.[53] However, sometimes food banks have run out of supplies by the time they arrive.[56] Some find it humiliating to have to ask for food, and the packages they receive do not always seem nutritious.[53] Some food banks have tried to respond with innovative programs; London Street Food bank for example began asking donors to send in supermarket vouchers so that those they serve will be able to choose food that best meets their nutritional needs.[53][56][65][66]
The Trussell Trust revealed a 47% increase in several three-day emergency supplies provided by their food banks in December 2016 compared to the monthly average for the 2016–17 financial year.[67] Public donations in December 2016 meant foodbanks met the increased need in that month, but donations in January, February and March 2017 all fell below the monthly average of 931 tonnes for the 2016-17 financial year.
Although going for a few years by various small charities around the world, 2017 saw a significant increase in media coverage and take up of the reverse advent calendar. The UK Money bloggers campaign[68] encouraging the public to give something to a food bank every day for 25 days was covered by The Mirror,[69] The Guardian[70] and others. Emma Revie of the Trussell Trust said, "for too many people, staying above water is a daily struggle".[71]
Food bank use has increased since Universal Credit was implemented as part of the Welfare Reform Act 2012. Delays in providing the first payment force claimants to use food banks, also Universal Credit does not provide enough to cover basic living expenses. Claiming Universal Credit is complex and the system is hard to navigate, many claimants cannot afford internet access and cannot access online help with claiming. A report by the Trussell Trust says:
Rather than acting as a service to ensure people do not face destitution, the evidence suggests that for people on the very lowest incomes … the poor functioning of universal credit can actually push people into a tide of bills, debts and, ultimately, lead them to a food bank. People are falling through the cracks in a system not made to hold them. What little support available is primarily offered by the third sector, whose work is laudable, but cannot be a substitute for a real, nationwide safety net.[72]
UK food banks appealed for volunteers and supplies, fearing an increase in demand for food as Universal Credit was rolled out further.[73]
UK food bank users[edit]
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According to a May 2013 report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty, about half a million Britons had used food banks. The Trussell Trust reports that their food banks alone helped feed 346,992 people in 2012–13.[74][75] Numbers using food banks more than doubled during the period 2012–13.[76] "Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems." Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include redundancy, sickness, delays over receiving benefits, domestic violence, family breakdown, debt, and additional fuel costs in winter.[77] Some clients of foodbanks are at work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay.[78]
Close to half of those needing to use food banks have had issues with their benefit payments. Sanctioning benefits was the single most frequent reason for food bank referrals and there has been criticism over sanctions being imposed for allegedly spurious reasons.[79]
A joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a "sanction", where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month[80]
Delays in payment of housing benefit,[81] disability benefit[82] and other benefits [83] and general bureaucratic issues with benefits[84] can force people to use food banks. Many further people who need food banks have low-income jobs but struggle to afford food after making debt repayments and all other expenses. Low-paid workers, part-time workers and those with zero-hour contracts are particularly vulnerable to financial crisis and sometimes need the assistance of food banks.[85] As had been predicted, demand for food banks further increased after cuts to welfare came into effect in April 2013, which included the abolition of Crisis loans.[86] In April 2014, Trussell reported that they had handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. Several councils have begun looking at funding food banks to increase their capability, as cuts to their budgets mean they will be less able to help vulnerable people directly.[87][88][89]
Sabine Goodwin, an Independent Food Aid Network researcher, said most food bank workers reported increasing demand for food aid.
Many feel they are firefighting, finding a way to deal with the logistics of feeding more and more people, with no time to advocate for changes that would eradicate the need for food banks in the first place.[42]
UK government[edit]
According to an all-party parliamentary report released in December 2014, key reasons for the increased demand for UK foodbanks are delays in paying benefits, welfare sanctions, and the recent reversal of the post-WWII trend for poor people's incomes to rise above or in line with increased costs for housing, utility bills and food.[90][91][92]
In 2013, the UK Government blocked a £22,000,000 European Union fund to help finance food banks in the UK. This disappointed Labour MEP, Richard Howitt, who assisted in negotiating the fund. Howitt stated:
It is very sad that our government is opposing this much-needed help for foodbanks on the basis that it is a national responsibility, when in reality it has no intention of providing the help itself. The only conclusion is that Conservative anti-European ideology is being put before the needs of the most destitute and deprived in our society.[93]
Haroon Siddiqui said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of austerity and feels the government is reluctant to admit the obvious link. Siddiqui said that during the 2017 general election campaign, Conservative Prime Minister, Theresa May was asked about even nurses (then subject to a 1% annual pay freeze) using food banks and May merely replied,
"There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks." Siddiqui wrote further, "(...) the reasons people turn to food banks are quite plain (and there have been studies that support them). The Trussell Trust, the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn". Earlier [in 2018] it said that food banks in areas where the full Universal Credit service had been in place for 12 months or more were four times as busy.[94]
Then-UK Prime Minister David Cameron said in the House of Commons in 2012 that he welcomed the efforts of food banks.[95] Caroline Spelman, his Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, has described food banks as an "excellent example" of active citizenship.[96] Labour MP Kate Green has a different view, feeling that the rise of food banks reflects people being let down by the state welfare system, saying: "I feel a real burning anger about them ... People are very distressed at having to ask for food; it's humiliating and distressing."[56] Cookery writer and poverty campaigner Jack Monroe wrote that those referred to food banks or given vouchers were "the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong" and expressed concern for those who lack this support.[97]
Food banks need extra donations during the summer holidays because school children do not receive free school meals during that time.[by whom?][98]
Germany[edit]
As of 2013, there were over 900 food banks in Germany, up from just 1 in 1993.[99] In 2014, 1.5 million people a week used food banks in Germany.[100][needs update]
France[edit]
In total, around 3.5  million people rely on food banks in France.[101] One provider, the Banque Alimentaire has over 100 branches in France, serving 200  a million meals a year to 1.85  million people.[102]
Asia[edit]
Several Asian places have begun to use food banks; these include Nepal, South Korea, Japan, Taiwan [103] and Singapore.
Hong Kong[edit]
The first food bank in Hong Kong is Feeding Hong Kong, which was founded in 2009.[104] Food Angel is also a food bank in Hong Kong[105] as well as the Foodlink Foundation.[106]
Japan[edit]
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.[107] As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Singapore[edit]
Founded in 2012, The Food Bank Singapore is a registered charity and part of The Global Foodbanking Network (GFN) that has an outreach of over 50 countries. Food from the Heart and Jamiyah FoodBank are also 2 other food banks in the food-insecure nation of Singapore.[108]
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Africa[edit]
The Egyptian Food Bank was established in Cairo in 2006, and less than ten years later, food banks run on similar principles spread to other Arab countries in North Africa and the Middle East.[1]
In Sub-Saharan Africa, there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural LDCs such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centres to provide smallholders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.[2]
Formed in 2009, Food Bank South Africa (Food Bank SA) is South Africa's national food banking network and a member of The Global Food Banking Network.[3]
Worldwide[edit]
Since the 1980s food banking has spread around the world. There are over 40 countries and regions with active food bank groups under the umbrella of The Global Food Banking Network.[4][5] Countries and regions in the international network include Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Africa, Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea and the UK. There are also several countries with food banks which have not yet joined the network, either because they do not yet meet the required criteria or they have not applied.[6][7]
Climate change[edit]
Food banking and related models have been proposed as a key solution to the reduction greenhouse gas emissions.[8] Around 8% of total emissions are due to food loss and waste.[9] Through food rescue programs, food banks help reduce emissions by ensuring the productive use of energy involved in the production of food and by diverting food away from landfills, where it would have spoiled and generated methane and other greenhouse gasses.[10] One estimate puts the greenhouse gas avoidance from food banks at more than 1.7 million tons in 2021.[11]
Reactions and concerns[edit]
Olivier De Schutter, a senior United Nations official, has cautioned Europe against allowing food banks to become a permanent partial replacement for welfare provision, as is the case in the U.S. and Canada.
The rise of food banks has been "broadly welcomed". For it is said that "not only do they provide a solution to the problem of hunger that does not require resources from the state", but they can be viewed "as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship". In the UK for example, Patrick Butler, society editor for The Guardian, has said that:
"Many politicians and campaigners are fascinated by the possibilities of food banks. After the initial shock that "things have come to this" there is, on the left of the political spectrum, a nervous excitement about the potential for community self-help. On the right, there is outright enthusiasm for what is seen as "big society" welfare in its purest form."[12]
There has also been concern expressed about food banks by some researchers and politicians. Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s, American Sociology Professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can contribute to the long-term erosion of human rights and support for welfare systems. Once food banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for meeting the needs of hungry people to the state.
Poppendieck says that the logistics of running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind-hearted people from having time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to lobby politicians for long-term changes, that would help those on a low income. They often have considerable credibility with legislators. As of 2012,[needs update] senior US food bank staff members have "expressed a preference" to remain politically neutral/refused to take a stand, which political activists have suggested may relate to their sources of funding/political pressure.[13][12][14][15][16]
The emergence of "Little Free Food Pantries" and "Blessing Boxes", modelled on the "Little Free Libraries" boxes, has been criticized as feel-good local philanthropy which is too small to make a significant impact on hunger, for its lack of access to fresh foods, for food safety concerns, and as a public relations effort by Tyson Foods, which seeks to cut federal SNAP food assistance in the US.[17]
Rachel Loopstra from University of Toronto has said food banks are often inefficient, unreliable and unable to supply nutritional food. She said a survey in Toronto found that only 1 in 5 families suffering from food insecurity would turn to food banks, in part because there is a stigma associated with having to do so.[12] Elizabeth Dowler, Professor of Food & Social Policy at Warwick University, said that most British people prefer the state to take responsibility for helping the hungry. Hannah Lambie-Mumford, from Sheffield University, echoed the view that some users of food banks find having to ask for food humiliating, and also that food bank volunteers should be encouraged to advocate for long-term solutions to the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.[13][18][19]
Olivier De Schutter, a senior United Nations official charged with ensuring governments honour their obligation to safeguard their citizens right to food, has expressed alarm at the rise of food banks. He has reminded the governments of the advanced economies in Europe and Canada that they have a "duty to protect" their citizens from hunger, and suggested that leaving such an obligation to food banks may be an abuse of human rights.[20][21][22]
Other criticism expresses alarm at "transnational corporate food banking which construct[s] domestic hunger as a matter for charity, thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food."[23]
See also[edit]
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^ Soup kitchens will typically feed anyone if they have food available, but they can often only provide a single meal. A food bank on the other hand will typically give a package of food sufficient to last for several days.[citation needed]
https://nc211.org/food-pantries-soup-kitchens/
Further reading[edit]
Canice Prendergast. 2017. "How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." Journal of Economic Perspectives 31(4): 145–162.
Canice Prendergast. 2022. "The Allocation of Food to Food Banks". Journal of Political Economy.
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[[File:Passing out groceries.jpg|thumb|Volunteers pass out food items from a food pantry run by [[Feeding America]]]]
[[File:Fort Bragg Food Bank - November 2022 - Sarah Stierch.jpg|thumb|Fort Bragg Food Bank in [[Fort Bragg, California]]]]
A '''food bank''' is a non-profit, [[charitable organization]] that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid [[hunger]], usually through intermediaries like food pantries and [[soup kitchen]]s. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries.
[[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the [[2007–2008 world food price crisis|global increase in the price of food]] which began in late 2006, and especially after the [[financial crisis of 2007–2008]] began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the [[2020s in economic history|inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s]] has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food <ref>{{cite web| title=MoneyWatch: More hungry Americans are using food banks for the first time|website=[[CBS News]] |date=29 August 2022 |url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/food-insecurity-inflation-food-banks-hunger/}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.foxbusiness.com/economy/food-banks-face-inflation-struggles-surging-demand-never-seen-anything-like-this|title=Food banks face inflation struggles with surging demand: 'Never seen anything like this'|website=[[Fox Business]] |date=29 July 2022 }}</ref>
The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them as examples of active, caring citizenship. Other academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of food banks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that in some cases food banks can be inefficient compared with state-run [[welfare]].
==Operational models==
[[Image:Insidecafb.png|right|The warehouse of the [[Capital Area Food Bank]]|thumb]]
With thousands of food banks operating around the world, there are many different models.<ref name = "global history"/>
A major distinction between food banks is whether or not they operate on the "front line" model, giving out food directly to the hungry, or whether they operate with the "[[warehouse]]" model, supplying food to intermediaries like food pantries, soup kitchens and other front-line organizations.<ref>These organizations can be private or public, religious or secular. The type and nature of the recipient agency vary depending upon the policies of the food bank, the nature of their community, and the local laws where they operate.</ref> In the US, Australia and to an extent in Canada, the standard model is for food banks to act as warehouses rather than as suppliers to the end user, though there are exceptions. In other countries, food banks usually hand out food parcels direct to hungry people, providing the service that in the US is offered by ''food pantries''.
Another distinction is between the charity model and the labor union model. At least in Canada and the US, food banks run by charities often place relatively more weight on the salvaging of food that would otherwise go to waste, and on encouraging [[Volunteering|voluntarism]], whereas those run by unions can place greater emphasis on feeding the hungry by any means available, on providing work for the unemployed, and on education, especially on explaining to users their civil rights.<ref name=" welfare crisis">
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|title=Food banks and the welfare crisis|chapter=''passim'', see esp. Models of Food Banks|year=1986|isbn=0888103638|publisher=Lorimer}}</ref>
In the US, cities will often have a single food bank that acts as a centralized warehouse and will serve several hundred front-line agencies. Like a [[blood bank]], that warehouse serves as a single collection and distribution point for food donations. A food bank operates a lot like a for-profit food distributor, but in this case, it distributes food to charities, not to food retailers. There is often no charge to the charities, but some food banks do charge a small "shared maintenance" fee to help defray the cost of storage and distribution.
For many US food banks, most of their donated food comes from food left over from the normal processes of for-profit companies. It can come from any part of the food chain, e.g. from growers who have produced too much or whose food is not sufficiently visually appealing; from manufacturers who overproduced; or from retailers who over-ordered. Often the product is approaching or past its "sell by" date. In such cases, the food bank liaises with the food industry and with regulators to make sure the food is safe and legal to distribute and eat.
[[File:US Navy 111123-N-HW977-185 Sailors weigh Thanksgiving food drive donations before delivery to the Corona-Norco Settlement House.jpg|thumb|Volunteers weigh food drive donations.]]
Other sources of food include the general public, sometimes in the form of "[[food drive]]s", and government programs that buy and distribute excess farm products mostly to help support higher commodity prices. Food banks can also buy food either at market prices or from wholesalers and retailers at discounted prices, often at a cost. Sometimes farmers will allow food banks to send [[Gleaning|gleaners]] to salvage leftover crops for free once their primary harvest is complete. A few food banks have even taken over their farms, though such initiatives have not always been successful.<ref>{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Henderson and Robyn Van En|title=Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen's Guide to Community Supported Agriculture|publisher=Chealsea Green Publishing|chapter=Chapt 19|year=1986|isbn=193339210X}}</ref>
Many food banks do not accept fresh produce, preferring canned or packaged food due to health and safety concerns, though some have tried to change this as part of a growing worldwide awareness of the importance of nutrition. As an example, in 2012, London Food Bank (Canada) started accepting perishable food, reporting that as well as the obvious health benefits, there were noticeable emotional benefits to recipients when they were given fresh food.<ref>{{cite web|access-date=18 July 2012|author=Ian Gillespie|date=17 July 2012|title=How to produce results|url=https://lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|work=London Free Press|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223916/http://www.lfpress.com/news/columnists/ian_gillespie/2012/07/17/19997971.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Summer can be a challenging time for food banks, particularly in regions where school children are usually given regular free meals during term time. Spikes in demand can coincide with periods where donations fall due to folk being on holiday.<ref>{{cite web|title=Students swell summer demand for food banks|url=http://www.canada.com/Students+swell+summer+demand+food+banks/6915467/story.html|author=Lexi Bainas|date=11 July 2012|work=Canada.com|access-date=12 July 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|title=Food banks struggle during summer|author=Tracy Agnew|date=11 July 2012|work=Suffolk news herald|access-date=12 July 2012|archive-date=12 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223909/http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/2012/07/11/food-banks-struggle-during-summer/|url-status=live}}</ref>
==United States==
===History===
[[File:US Navy 090806-N-6220J-004 Sailors and Navy Delayed Entry Program members serve breakfast to homeless men and women at Dorothy's Soup Kitchen in Salinas, Calif. during Salinas Navy Week community service event.jpg|thumb|left| In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian [[soup kitchen]]. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the [[United States Navy]] serving visitors.) ]]
The world's first food bank was [[St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance|St. Mary's Food Bank]] in [[Phoenix, Arizona]], founded by [[John van Hengel]] in 1967.<ref name="global history"/> According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, the hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.<ref name="sweet">{{cite book|author=Janet Poppendieck|title=Sweet Charity?: Emergency Food and the End of Entitlement|chapter=Introduction, Chpt 1|year=1999|isbn=0140245561|publisher=Penguine}}</ref> By the mid-sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of [[Federal Surplus Relief Corporation|federal food surpluses]], instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/>
One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by [[soup kitchen]]s and similar civil society food relief agencies – some of these dated back to the [[Great Depression]] and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come",<ref>{{cite book|author=Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant|title=Forces for Good: The Six Practices of High-Impact Nonprofits|chapter=Chpt 3|year=2007|isbn=978-0470580349|publisher=Jossey-Bass}}</ref> the first food bank was created with the help of [[St. Mary's Basilica, Phoenix|St. Mary's Basilica]], which became the namesake of the organization.<ref name="auto">{{Cite web|url=https://www.firstfoodbank.org/about/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100204020809/http://www.firstfoodbank.org/history.html|title=About - St. Mary's Food Bank - Our Mission to End Hunger|archive-date=4 February 2010|website=St. Mary's Food Bank}}</ref>
Food banks spread across the United States, and Canada. By 1976, van Hengel had established the organization known today as [[Feeding America]]. As of the early 21st century, their network of over 200 food banks provides support for 90,000 projects. Other large networks exist such as [https://www.AmpleHarvest.org AmpleHarvest.org], created by [https://ampleharvest.org/CNN/ CNN Hero] and World Food Prize nominee Gary Oppenheimer which lists nearly 9,000 food pantries (1 out of every 4 in America) across all 50 states that are eager to receive surplus locally grown garden produce from any of America's 62 million home or community gardeners.<ref name="sweet" /><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |title=AmpleHarvest.org homepage |publisher=AmpleHarvest.org |date=17 May 2010 |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131024094353/http://www.ampleharvest.org/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
[[File:Free Soup For the Revolution.jpg|thumb|upright=1|[[Food not bombs]] a food bank and [[cooperative]] that distributes food]]
In the 1980s, U.S. food banks began to grow rapidly. A second response to the "rediscovery" of hunger in the mid-sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare. Until the 1980s, this approach had a greater impact.<ref name = "sweet"/> In the 1970s, U.S. Federal expenditure on hunger relief grew by about 500%, with food stamps distributed free of charge to those in greatest need. According to Poppendieck, welfare was widely considered preferable to grassroots efforts, as the latter could be unreliable and did not give recipients consumer-style choice in the same way as did food stamps. It also risked recipients feeling humiliated by having to turn to charity. In the early 1980s, [[Ronald Reagan]]'s administration scaled back welfare provision, leading to a rapid rise in activity from grassroots hunger relief agencies. According to a comprehensive government survey completed in 2002, over 90% of food banks were established in the US after 1981.<ref name="sweet"/><ref name=" Walter">{{cite book|editor=William A Dando|author=Andrew Walter|title=Food and Famine in the 21st Century|publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]]|pages=171–181|year=2012|isbn=978-1-59884-730-7}}</ref> Poppendieck says that for the first few years after the change, there was vigorous opposition from the left, who argued that state welfare was much more suitable for meeting recipients needs. But in the decades that followed, food banks have become an accepted part of America's response to hunger.<ref name = "sweet"/><ref name = "WarwickConf"/> Demand for the services of US food banks increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with [[Bill Clinton]]'s [[Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|title=Recession and welfare reform increase hunger in US|publisher=World Socialist Web Site|author=Debra Watson|date=11 May 2002|access-date=6 September 2012|archive-date=28 July 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120728040224/http://www.wsws.org/articles/2002/may2002/food-m11.shtml|url-status=live}}</ref>
In Canada, foodbanks underwent a period of rapid growth after the cutbacks in welfare that took place in the mid-1990s.<ref name="welfare crisis" /> As early as the 1980s, food banks had also begun to spread from the United States to the rest of the world. The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant.<ref name="auto" /> In 2007, ''The Global Food Banking Network'' was formed.<ref name="global history">{{cite web|title=Global FoodBanking Network: History of Food Banking|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|access-date=20 June 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111015031147/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=foodbanking_history|archive-date=15 October 2011}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|title=John van Hengel Dies at 83; Founded 1st Food Bank in 1967|newspaper=Washington Post|author=Patricia Sullivan|date=8 October 2005|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 May 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110514025359/http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/07/AR2005100701911.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
===Food aid for pets===
Some U.S. cities have organizations that provide dog and cat food for pets whose owners qualify for food assistance. For example, ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' in [[Lawrenceville, Georgia]] is considered the largest pet food aid agency in [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]], distributing over 800,000 pounds of dog and cat food in 2012.<ref name="ajc26">Oliviero, Helena. (25 February 2013). [http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ ''Pet food charity earns recognition for its work''.] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130301040419/http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/pet-food-charity-earns-spot-on-wine-label/nWWf2/ |date=2013-03-01 }} Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Retrieved 26 February 2013.</ref> ''Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen'' was started in 1997 by Tom Wargo, a repairman who was working in an elderly woman's home when he noticed her sharing her [[Meals On Wheels]] lunch with her pet cat because she could not afford cat food.<ref name="ajc26"/> Daffy's was one of seven non-profit organizations recognized by [[Barefoot Wine]] in 2013 through a $10,000 donation and by being featured on labels of the vintner's Impression Red Blend wines.<ref name="ajc26"/> Pet Buddies Food Pantry in [[Atlanta, Georgia]] is another example of an establishment that provides food aid for pets.<ref name="ajc26"/> The St. Augustine Humane Society in [[St. Augustine, Florida]], distributes over 1,600 pounds of pet food each month to families who are experiencing economic hardship and cannot afford to feed their pets.{{citation needed|date=September 2021}}
=== Food pantries for students ===
[[File:A food bank at Lee University in Cleveland, Tennessee.jpg|thumb|A food bank at [[Lee University]] in [[Cleveland, Tennessee]]]]
The college and University Food Bank Alliance, which was formed in 2012, has 570 campus food pantries nationwide.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|title=On-campus food pantries help struggling students succeed in school|last=Esch|first=Mary|date=18 April 2018|work=Christian Science Monitor|access-date=23 November 2019|issn=0882-7729|archive-date=23 November 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191123175846/https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Education/2018/0418/On-campus-food-pantries-help-struggling-students-succeed-in-school|url-status=live}}</ref> On-campus food pantries were available at 70% of [[State University of New York]] locations by 2019.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|url=https://www.suny.edu/media/suny/content-assets/documents/university-life/FITF-QuarterlyReport-March2019.pdf|title=Shared Practices: Food Insecurity Task Force, Quarterly Report, October–December 2018|date=March 2019|access-date=23 November 2019}}{{dead link|date=January 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref>
===After the 2007 financial crisis===
Following the [[financial crisis of 2007–08]], and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of individuals requesting help from American and Canadian food banks. By 2012, according to ''Food Banks Canada'', over 850,000 Canadians needed help from a food bank each month.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|title=On World Food Day, October 16th, Food Banks Canada is asking Canadians to take action in support of local food banks|work=Foodbankscanada.ca|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200729/http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name="UNofficial">{{Cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|title=UN official alarmed by the rise of food banks in UK|work=[[The Independent]]|author=Charlie Cooper|date=17 February 2013|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222061829/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html|url-status=live}}</ref> For the United States, ''Gleaners Indiana Food bank'' reported in 2012 that there were then 50 million Americans struggling with food insecurity (about 1 in 6 of the population), with the number of individuals seeking help from food banks having increased by 46% since 2005.<ref>[http://www.gleaners.org/ Gleaners Indiana Food bank] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220325142147/https://www.gleaners.org/ |date=2022-03-25 }} Retrieved 18 July 2012</ref> According to a 2012 [[UCLA School of Public Health#Research centers|UCLA Center for Health Policy Research]] study, there has been a 40% increase in demand for Californian food banks since 2008, with married couples who both work sometimes requiring the aid of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|title=Thousands More in Solano, Napa Counties are Turning to Food Banks|url=http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|author=Alex Ferreras|date=11 July 2012|access-date=11 July 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120717045016/http://www.loansafe.org/thousands-more-in-solano-napa-counties-are-turning-to-food-banks|archive-date=17 July 2012}}</ref> Dave Krepcho, Director of the ''Second Harvest Food Bank'' in [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]], has said that college-educated professional couples have begun to turn to food pantries.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|title=Going hungry in America: 'Distressing,' 'humbling' and 'scary'|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Tim Skillern|date=23 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120823223929/http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/lookout/going-hungry-america-distressing-humbling-scary-011618014.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
By mid-2012, US food banks had expressed concerns about the expected difficulty in feeding the hungry over the coming months. Rapidly rising demand has been coinciding with higher [[food prices]] and with a decrease in donations, partly as the food industry is becoming more efficient and so has less mislabelled and other slightly defective food to give away. Also, there has been less surplus federal food on offer.<ref>Several food banks receive federal food surpluses as part of the [[Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program|Emergency Food Assistance Program]]. As the price of food was high throughout 2012, federal authorities were buying less on the market, and so had less to give away to food banks.</ref> Additionally, there have been recent decreases in government funding, and [[United States Congress|Congress]] has been debating possible further cuts, including potentially billions of dollars from the [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]] (food stamp program).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|title=City Food Banks Face Federal Funding Shortage - NY1.com|access-date=30 August 2012|url-status=unfit|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223910/http://manhattan.ny1.com/content/top_stories/167266/city-food-banks-face-federal-funding-shortage|archive-date=12 January 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|title=Food banks cope with funding cuts, drops in donations, higher demand|publisher=[[Pittsburgh Post-Gazette]]|author=Debra Duncan|date=23 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=14 January 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130114012316/http://www.post-gazette.com/stories/local/neighborhoods-east/food-banks-cope-with-funding-cuts-drops-in-donations-higher-demand-650175/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|title=Food banks run short as federal government hands out less|work=Detroit Free Press|author=Marisol Bello|date=9 September 2012|access-date=10 September 2012|archive-date=21 September 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921062041/http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/nation/story/2012-09-09/food-back-shortage/57698834/1|url-status=live}}</ref> In September 2012, [[Feeding America]] launched ''Hunger Action Month'', with events planned all over the nation. Food banks and other agencies involved hoped to raise awareness that about one in six Americans are struggling with hunger and to get more Americans involved in helping out.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|title=Anti-hunger efforts underway in area|work=BeloitDailyNews.com|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=21 January 2013|archive-url=https://archive.today/20130121005414/http://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/anti-hunger-efforts-under-way-in-area/article_6fb288aa-f833-11e1-bd3f-0019bb2963f4.html|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|title=Food banks spotlight hunger awareness|last=WELCH|first=KAREN SMITH|website=Amarillo Globe-News|language=en|access-date=27 June 2019|archive-date=27 June 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190627094322/https://www.amarillo.com/article/20120907/LIFESTYLE/309079771|url-status=live}}</ref>
=== Food banks and COVID-19 ===
The [[COVID-19]] outbreak impacted European food banks since value chains were notably disrupted and food banks lacked the support of volunteers. Compared to 2019, the amount of food distributed increased in 2020. Possibly through an increase in people in need. At the same time, the deliveries of [[shelf-stable food]] decreased by 20% due to panic shopping/Hoarding, especially at the beginning of the crisis.<ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Capodistrias |first1=Paula |last2=Szulecka |first2=Julia |last3=Corciolani |first3=Matteo |last4=Strøm-Andersen |first4=Nhat |date=2022-08-01 |title=European food banks and COVID-19: Resilience and innovation in times of crisis |journal=Socio-Economic Planning Sciences |language=en |volume=82 |pages=101187 |doi=10.1016/j.seps.2021.101187 |pmid=36406166 |issn=0038-0121 |pmc=9659435}}</ref>
==Europe==
The first European food bank was opened in [[France]] in 1984.<ref name = "global history"/> The first food bank in [[Italy]] was established in 1989. Similar to the UK's experience, food banks have become much more common across continental Europe since the crisis that began in 2008.
In [[Spain]], food banks can operate on the warehouse model, supplying a network of surrounding soup kitchens and other food relief agencies. The {{interlanguage link|Spanish federation of food banks|es|Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos}} helped to feed about 800,000 people during 2008–11, according to the [[Carrefour#Carrefour Foundation|Carrefour Foundation]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|title=Spanish Federation of Food Banks|publisher=[[carrefour]]|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=30 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130830094031/http://www.fondation-carrefour.org/content/spanish-federation-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> By October 2014, Spain had 55 food banks in total, with the number who depend on them having increased to 1.5 million.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|title=Spanish recovery lays bare a social crisis|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Tobias Buck|date=30 October 2014|access-date=30 October 2014|url-access=registration|archive-date=2 November 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141102003338/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/bbdfb1fe-5f96-11e4-8c27-00144feabdc0.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Belgium]], food banks helped about 121,000 people in 2012. That was an increase of about 4,500 compared with 2011, the biggest increase since the start of the 2008 crisis. Belgian food banks account for about 65% of all food aid given out within the country.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|title=121,000 people get help from Food Banks|work=[[Expatica]]|date=18 March 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|archive-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111214444/http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/121000-people-get-help-from-Food-Banks_261340.html|url-status=dead}}</ref>
The number of food banks has increased rapidly in [[Germany]], a country that weathered the crisis relatively well, and did not implement severe austerity measures. In 2012, professor Sabine Pfeiffer of [[Munich University of Applied Sciences]] said there has been an "explosion" of food bank usage.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/>
===European Union programs===
While many European food banks have long been run by civil society with no government assistance, an EU-funded project, the ''Most deprived persons program'' (MDP), had specialized in supplying food to marginalized people who are not covered by the benefits system and who were in some cases reluctant to approach the more formal food banks. The program involved the EU buying surplus agricultural products, which were then distributed to the poor largely by Catholic churches. The MDP was wound down in late 2013 and was replaced by the [[Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived]] (FEAD), which is set to run until at least 2020. The FEAD program has a wider scope than the MDP, helping deprived people not just with food aid, but with social inclusion projects and housing. The actual methods employed by FEAD tend to vary from country to country, but in several EU states, such as Poland, its activities include helping to fund local food bank networks.<ref name="WarwickConf">{{cite news|url=http://www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112230035/http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fac/gpp/foodsecurity/publicevents/householdfoodsecurity/food_security_summary.pdf |url-status=dead |archive-date=12 January 2013 |title=Household food security in the global north: challenges and responsibilities|publisher=[[Warwick University]] |date=6 July 2012 |access-date=23 August 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|title=Free food for the most deprived persons in the EU (published by the European Commission)|publisher=Ec.europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=30 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030021214/http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/most-deprived-persons/index_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|title=Poverty: Commission proposes new fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived - frequently asked questions (European Commission press release)|publisher=Europa.eu|access-date=25 October 2013|archive-date=29 October 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029210354/http://europa.eu/rapid/press-release_MEMO-12-800_en.htm|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>
{{cite book|author=Graham Riches|chapter=3, 5|isbn=978-1138739758|publisher=[[Routledge]]|title=Food Bank Nations|year=2018}}</ref>
===United Kingdom===
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[[File:Barnet Food Hub 03.jpg|thumb|Barnet Food Hub, supplying food banks in the London Borough of Barnet. March 2021.]]
[[File:Food parcels 2.png|thumb|Food parcels given out by the Trussell Trust from 2005/06 to 2019/20.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-11-01|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201101084101/http://www.trusselltrust.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2015/06/BIGGEST-EVER-INCREASE-IN-UK-FOODBANK-USE.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|title=End of Year Stats|access-date=2020-10-26|archive-date=2020-10-29|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201029181337/https://www.trusselltrust.org/news-and-blog/latest-stats/end-year-stats/|url-status=live}}</ref>]]
In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Gorb |first1=Aleksandra |last2=Francis-Devine |first2=Brigid |last3=Irvine |first3=Susannah |date=July 14, 2022 |title=Research Briefing: Food Banks in the UK |url=https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |website=House of Commons Library |access-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-date=August 21, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220821105637/https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-8585/ |url-status=live }}</ref>
Professor Jon May, of [[Queen Mary University of London]] and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years.
{{Blockquote|There are now food banks in almost every community, from the [[East End of London]] to the [[Cotswolds]]. The spread of food banks maps growing problems of poverty across the UK, but also the growing drive among many thousands of people across the country to try and do something about those problems.<ref name=" Guardian29/5/2017">[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan Report reveals scale of food bank use in the UK] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170529171214/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/may/29/report-reveals-scale-of-food-bank-use-in-the-uk-ifan |date=2017-05-29 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
Though food banks were rarely seen in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century, their use has started to grow, especially in the 2000s, and have since dramatically expanded.<ref name=":1" /> The increase in the dependency on food banks has been blamed by some, such as ''Guardian'' columnist George Monbiot,<ref>{{Cite web |date=2022-05-19 |title=The banks collapsed in 2008 – and our food system is about to do the same {{!}} George Monbiot |url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=the Guardian |language=en |archive-date=2022-05-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220519060112/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/may/19/banks-collapsed-in-2008-food-system-same-producers-regulators |url-status=live }}</ref> on the 2008 recession and the [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] government's [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] policies.<ref>{{cite journal |title=Nothing Left in the Cupboards |url=https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |website=Human Rights Watch |access-date=8 March 2021 |language=en |date=20 May 2019 |archive-date=22 February 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210222115025/https://www.hrw.org/report/2019/05/20/nothing-left-cupboards/austerity-welfare-cuts-and-right-food-uk |url-status=live }}</ref> These policies included cuts to the welfare state and caps on the total amount of welfare support that a family can claim.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Austerity timeline |url=https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=Life on the Breadline |language=en-GB |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132242/https://breadlineresearch.coventry.ac.uk/resources/austerity-timeline-2/ |url-status=live }}</ref> The OECD found that people answered yes to the question 'Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?' It decreased from 9.8% in 2007 to 8.1% in 2012,<ref name="oecd">{{Cite web|url=http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|title=Society at a Glance 2014 Highlights: UK OECD Social Indicators|access-date=2015-10-02|archive-date=2016-03-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160304092121/http://www.oecd.org/unitedkingdom/OECD-SocietyAtaGlance2014-Highlights-UnitedKingdom.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> with ''Spectator'' editor Toby Young speculating in 2015 that the initial rise was due to both more awareness of food banks, and [[Jobcentre]]s referring people to food banks when they were hungry.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Young |first=Toby |title=Was food poverty actually higher under the last Labour government? {{!}} The Spectator |url=https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |access-date=2022-08-24 |website=www.spectator.co.uk |date=22 April 2015 |language=en |archive-date=2022-08-24 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220824132244/https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/was-food-poverty-actually-higher-under-the-last-labour-government- |url-status=live }}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra, lecturer on [[nutrition]] at [[King's College London]] and food insecurity expert, said:
{{Blockquote|Recent national survey data suggests that 8% of adults experienced not having enough money for food over 2016 – this figure is likely to be many times more than the number helped by food banks. We need ongoing national survey monitoring to understand the scale of food insecurity, who is at risk, and the implications for child and adult health and wellbeing.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
Those who are short of food are likely to frequently also be short of other essential products, like shampoo and basic hygiene products (e.g. soap, toilet rolls and sanitary products). Some people must choose between buying food and buying basic toiletries.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |title=Poverty 'driving people to choose between eating or keeping clean' |date=27 July 2017 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=27 July 2017 |archive-date=27 July 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170727112554/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jul/27/poverty-driving-people-to-choose-between-eating-or-keeping-clean-in-kind-direct |url-status=live }}</ref>
As of January 2014, the largest group co-ordinating UK food banks was [[The Trussell Trust]], a Christian charity based organization in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK's food banks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basic,<ref>basic.org.uk</ref> about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as ''Fare Share'' and ''Food Cycle''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture |work=The Green Benches |author=Dr Éoin Clarke |date=24 January 2014 |access-date=23 December 2014 |archive-date=29 April 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150429063822/http://www.greenbenchesuk.com/2014/01/food-bank-britain-report-by-eoin-clarke.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Before the [[Great Recession|2008 credit crunch]], food banks were "almost unheard of" in the UK.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|title=One Food Bank Opening In UK Every Four Days|publisher=[[Yahoo!]]|author=Frazer Maude, Sky News|date=21 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=23 April 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120423203608/http://uk.news.yahoo.com/one-food-bank-opening-uk-every-four-days-012533480.html|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks. <ref name = "Trussell"/><ref name="Hannah">{{cite web|url=http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|title=On the breadline: Foodbanks|publisher=[[University of Sheffield]]|date=5 February 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223911/http://www.shef.ac.uk/geography/about/2012/0502|archive-date=12 January 2013|url-status=dead}}</ref> In 2011, about one new food bank was being opened per week. In 2012, the Trussell Trust reported that the rate of new openings had increased to three per week. In August, the rate of new openings spiked to four per week, with three new food banks being opened in that month for [[Nottingham]] alone.<ref name = "rise"/><ref name = "childrenFirst"/><ref name = "Amy"/><ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|title=Food banks quadruple in Nottingham|publisher=[[ITV plc|ITV]]|date=22 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=28 August 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120828212515/http://www.itv.com/news/central/2012-08-22/food-banks-quadruple-in-nottingham/|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Demand from emergency food banks is 'still rising'|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|work=BBC News|author=[[Declan Harvey]]|date=30 August 2012|access-date=30 August 2012|archive-date=1 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120901121520/http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/19412001|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name = "modell">{{cite news|url=http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|title=Britain's hidden hunger|work=BBC News|author=David Model|date=30 October 2012|access-date=4 November 2012|author-link=David Model (journalist)|archive-date=2 November 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121102012401/http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nqcbm|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2022 the number of food banks run by Trussell had risen to over 1,400.
Most UK food banks are hosted by churches in partnership with the wider community. They operate on the "frontline" model, giving out food directly to the hungry. Over 90% of the food given out is donated by the public, including schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The Trussell Trust had aimed to provide short-term support for people whose needs have not yet been addressed by official state welfare provision; those who had been "falling into the cracks in the system". The Trussell franchise has procedures which aim to prevent long-term dependency on their services and to ensure that those in need are referred to qualified outside agencies. The charity suggests that the ''credit crunch'' caused an upsurge in the number of people needing emergency food.
Since 2010, demand for food banks continued to increase, and at a more rapid rate, partly as [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] began to take effect, and partly as those on low incomes began to draw down savings and run out of friends of whom they were willing to ask for help. Unlike ''soup kitchens'',{{efn|Soup kitchens will typically feed anyone if they have food available, but they can often only provide a single meal. A food bank on the other hand will typically give a package of food sufficient to last for several days.{{citation needed|date=December 2019}}}} most, but not all UK food banks are unable to help people who come in off the street without a referral – instead, they operate with a referral system. Vouchers are handed out to those in need by various sorts of frontline care professionals, such as [[social workers]], health visitors, [[Citizens Advice Bureau]]x, [[Jobcentre]]s and housing officials. The voucher can typically be exchanged at the food bank for a package of food sufficient to last three days. The year to April 2013 saw close to 350,000 referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks, more than double the amount from the previous year.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|title=More hard-up Britons turn to food banks|work=[[The Financial Times]]|author=Esther Bintliff|date=24 April 2013|access-date=24 April 2013|url-access=registration|archive-date=25 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130425232424/http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/aa02aeee-ab53-11e2-ac71-00144feabdc0.html#slide0|url-status=live}}</ref>
Several food banks have been set up outside of the Trussell system, some faith-based, others secular <ref name="Guardian29/5/2017" /> in part as they do not like having to turn away people without referrals, although Trussell Trust food banks do help clients in need without vouchers to get one as quickly as possible. There is also [[FareShare]], a [[London]]-based charity which operates some nineteen depots on the American-style warehouse model. Rather than giving out food directly to individuals, FareShare distributes food to over 700 smaller agencies, mainly smaller independent operations like soup kitchens and breakfast clubs.<ref name="Trussell" /><ref name="rise">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|title=The rise and rise of the food bank|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=12 May 2012|access-date=18 June 2012|author-link=Rowenna Davis|archive-date=18 June 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120618010038/http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/society/2012/05/rise-and-rise-food-bank|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="childrenFirst">{{cite news|title=Food banks: 'People would rather go without and feed their children first'|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|work=The Guardian|author=Helen Carter|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=9 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160309093557/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jun/25/breadline-britain-food-bank-merseyside|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Amy">{{cite news|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|work=The Guardian|author=Amelia Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=3 August 2012|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|title=How to set up a food bank in your local community|work=The Guardian|author=Caspar van Vark|date=20 June 2012|access-date=20 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214152/http://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/community-action-blog/2012/jun/20/community-food-banks?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|title=Food banks across the UK: help us create a directory|work=The Guardian|date=25 June 2012|access-date=29 June 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.theguardian.com/society/datablog/2012/jun/25/food-banks-listed-crowdsource-map?newsfeed=true|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120928040025/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/retailandconsumer/9572177/Food-bank-We-need-more-food-to-feed-UKs-hungry.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=28 September 2012|title=Food bank: We need more food to feed UK's hungry|work=The Daily Telegraph|author=Greg Morgan|date=27 September 2012|access-date=1 October 2012}}</ref> Great emphasis is placed on reducing [[food waste]] as well as relieving food poverty. Fareshare operates on a business basis, employing several Managers to oversee operations alongside their army of volunteers. Employee costs constituted over 50% of their expenditure in both 2011 and 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |title=Report and Financial Statements for the Year Ended 31 March 2012 |work=[[Fareshare]] |year=2012 |access-date=22 April 2013 |archive-date=14 March 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130314153958/http://www.fareshare.org.uk/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/FareShare-accounts-11-12.pdf |url-status=dead }}</ref>
People who turn to food banks are typically grateful both for the food and for the warmth and kindness they receive from the volunteers.<ref name="Hannah" /> However, sometimes food banks have run out of supplies by the time they arrive.<ref name="Amy" /> Some find it humiliating to have to ask for food, and the packages they receive do not always seem nutritious.<ref name="Hannah" /> Some food banks have tried to respond with innovative programs; ''London Street Food bank'' for example began asking donors to send in supermarket vouchers so that those they serve will be able to choose food that best meets their nutritional needs.<ref name="Hannah" /><ref name="Amy" /><ref name="turn">{{cite news|title=More people turning to food banks|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|work=BBC News|date=28 April 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=1 May 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120501111824/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-17867328|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=London Street Foodbank|url=http://www.londonfoodbank.co.uk |website=Londonfoodbank.co.uk|access-date=25 October 2013 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130518232754/http://londonfoodbank.co.uk/ |archivedate= 18 May 2013}}</ref>
The Trussell Trust revealed a 47% increase in several three-day emergency supplies provided by their food banks in December 2016 compared to the monthly average for the 2016–17 financial year.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|title=Foodbanks expecting busiest Christmas ever against the backdrop of growing need - The Trussell Trust|date=29 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114605/https://www.trusselltrust.org/2017/11/29/foodbanks-expecting-busiest-christmas-ever-backdrop-growing-need/|url-status=live}}</ref> Public donations in December 2016 meant foodbanks met the increased need in that month, but donations in January, February and March 2017 all fell below the monthly average of 931 tonnes for the 2016-17 financial year.
Although going for a few years by various small charities around the world, 2017 saw a significant increase in media coverage and take up of the reverse advent calendar. The UK Money bloggers campaign<ref>{{cite web|url=https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|title=No one should go hungry at Christmas - #FoodbankAdvent - UK Money Bloggers|date=5 November 2017|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=23 November 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171123005545/https://ukmoneybloggers.com/hungry-xmas-foodbankadvent/|url-status=live}}</ref> encouraging the public to give something to a food bank every day for 25 days was covered by ''The Mirror'',<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|title=Why the 'reverse advent calendar is the best thing you can do this December|first=Joshua|last=Barrie|website=[[Daily Mirror]]|date=2 November 2017|access-date=6 April 2018|archive-date=4 April 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180404035055/https://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/family/reverse-advent-calendar-best-thing-11455809|url-status=live}}</ref> ''The Guardian''<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|title=How reverse advent calendars are helping food banks countdown to Christmas|first=Samantha|last=Stapley|date=1 December 2017|work=The Guardian|access-date=3 December 2017|archive-date=4 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171204114651/https://www.theguardian.com/voluntary-sector-network/2017/dec/01/countdown-christmas-with-a-reverse-advent-calendar-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref> and others. Emma Revie of the [[Trussell Trust]] said, "for too many people, staying above water is a daily struggle".<ref>[https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 Foodbank charity gives record level of supplies] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180820085053/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-43866980 |date=2018-08-20 }} ''[[BBC]]''</ref>
Food bank use has increased since [[Universal Credit#Criticism|Universal Credit]] was implemented as part of the [[Welfare Reform Act 2012]]. Delays in providing the first payment force claimants to use food banks, also Universal Credit does not provide enough to cover basic living expenses. Claiming Universal Credit is complex and the system is hard to navigate, many claimants cannot afford internet access and cannot access online help with claiming. A report by the [[Trussell Trust]] says:
{{Blockquote|Rather than acting as a service to ensure people do not face destitution, the evidence suggests that for people on the very lowest incomes … the poor functioning of universal credit can actually push people into a tide of bills, debts and, ultimately, lead them to a food bank. People are falling through the cracks in a system not made to hold them. What little support available is primarily offered by the third sector, whose work is laudable, but cannot be a substitute for a real, nationwide safety net.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures People with 'nowhere else to turn' fuel rise in food bank use – study] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180424162258/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/apr/24/food-bank-use-trussell-trust-universal-credit-figures |date=2018-04-24 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>}}
UK food banks appealed for volunteers and supplies, fearing an increase in demand for food as Universal Credit was rolled out further.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out Food banks fear winter crisis as universal credit is rolled out] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181124221433/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/24/food-banks-fear-winter-crisis-universal-credit-rolled-out |date=2018-11-24 }} ''[[The Observer]]''</ref>
====UK food bank users====
{{See also|Hunger in the United Kingdom}}
{{update|section|date=September 2021}}
According to a May 2013 report by [[Oxfam]] and [[Church Action on Poverty]], about half a million Britons had used food banks. The Trussell Trust reports that their food banks alone helped feed 346,992 people in 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |title=''Walking the breadline : the scandal of food poverty in 21st century Britain'' - May 2013 report by Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty |access-date=25 October 2013 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023025337/http://www.church-poverty.org.uk/foodfuelfinance/walkingthebreadline/report/walkingthebreadlinefile |archive-date=23 October 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|title=Half a million Britons using food banks. What kind of country is this becoming?|work=The Guardian|author=John Harris (critic)|date=30 May 2013|access-date=9 June 2013|author-link=John Harris (critic)|archive-date=19 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130819145653/http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/may/30/food-banks-half-million|url-status=live}}</ref> Numbers using food banks more than doubled during the period 2012–13.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |title=Biggest ever increase in UK foodbank use |publisher=The Trussell Trust |access-date=2019-11-13 |archive-date=2015-12-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151226212014/http://www.trusselltrust.org/stats |url-status=live }}</ref> ''"Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems."'' Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include [[Layoff|redundancy]], sickness, delays over receiving [[:Category: United Kingdom pensions and benefits|benefits]], [[domestic violence]], family breakdown, [[debt]], and additional fuel costs in winter.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|title=What we do|access-date=2021-01-04|archive-date=2022-06-15|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220615110928/https://www.trusselltrust.org/what-we-do/|url-status=live}}</ref> Some clients of foodbanks are at work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay.<ref name=" Davis 2012"/>
Close to half of those needing to use food banks have had issues with their benefit payments. [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|Sanctioning benefits]] was the single most frequent reason for food bank referrals and there has been criticism over sanctions being imposed for allegedly [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|spurious reasons]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|title=Benefit sanctions hit over 900,000 claiming jobseeker's allowance|first1=Patrick|last1=Wintour|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084654/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/900000-claiming-job-seekers-allowance-subjected-benefit-sanctions|url-status=live}}</ref>
A joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a "[[Jobseeker's Allowance#Criticism of sanctions|sanction]]", where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Loopstra |first1=Rachel|title=Austerity, sanctions, and the rise of food banks in the UK|journal=BMJ |date=2015 |pages=2|url=http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |access-date=25 June 2015 |doi=10.1136/BMJ.h1775 |volume=350|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150626113008/http://press.psprings.co.uk/bmj/april/foodbanks.pdf |archive-date=26 June 2015|hdl=10044/1/57549 |pmid=25854525| s2cid=45641347 |hdl-access=free }}</ref>
Delays in payment of [[housing benefit]],<ref>{{cite web|access-date=11 March 2017|date=30 May 2013|first=Mark|last=Sedgwick|title=What it is like to rely on food banks?|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|work=BBC News|archive-date=10 January 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160110115420/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22715458|url-status=live}}</ref> [[disability benefit]]<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|title=Disability payments delay 'forced claimants to use food banks'|date=14 May 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=27 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161127045509/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-32738655|url-status=live}}</ref> and other benefits <ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|title=Welfare delays cause soaring numbers using food banks|date=19 November 2014|work=Independent.co.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 February 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216211822/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/welfare-delays-cause-soaring-numbers-using-food-banks-9871354.html|url-status=live}}</ref> and general [[Bureaucracy|bureaucratic]] issues with benefits<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|title=The 'hidden hunger' in British families|first=Mario|last=Cacciottolo|date=7 October 2010|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=12 January 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180112134114/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-11427207|url-status=live}}</ref> can force people to use food banks. Many further people who need food banks have low-income jobs but struggle to afford food after making debt repayments and all other expenses. Low-paid workers, [[part-time worker]]s and those with [[zero-hour contract]]s are particularly vulnerable to financial crisis and sometimes need the assistance of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|title=Food bank use tops million mark over the past year|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|newspaper=The Guardian|archive-date=10 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170310223536/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/apr/22/food-bank-users-uk-low-paid-workers-poverty|url-status=live}}</ref> As had been predicted, demand for food banks further increased after cuts to welfare came into effect in April 2013, which included the abolition of Crisis loans.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|title=Christmas dinner on a food parcel|date=18 December 2013|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=22 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170422043243/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-25402221|url-status=live}}</ref> In April 2014, Trussell reported that they had handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. Several councils have begun looking at funding food banks to increase their capability, as cuts to their budgets mean they will be less able to help vulnerable people directly.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|title=Breadline Britain: councils fund food banks to plug holes in welfare state|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=24 August 2012|archive-date=19 March 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140319151955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/councils-invest-food-banks-welfare-cuts|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|title=The growing demand for food banks in breadline Britain|work=BBC News|author=Paul Mason|date=4 September 2012|access-date=8 September 2012|author-link=Paul Mason (journalist)|archive-date=8 September 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120908053200/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19468697|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|title=Food banks see 'shocking' rise in the number of users|work=BBC News|author=Brian Milligan|date=16 April 2014|access-date=16 April 2014|archive-date=17 April 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140417111127/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-27032642|url-status=live}}</ref>
Sabine Goodwin, an Independent Food Aid Network researcher, said most food bank workers reported increasing demand for food aid.
{{Blockquote|Many feel they are firefighting, finding a way to deal with the logistics of feeding more and more people, with no time to advocate for changes that would eradicate the need for food banks in the first place.<ref name="Guardian29/5/2017"/>}}
====UK government====
According to an all-party parliamentary report released in December 2014, key reasons for the increased demand for UK foodbanks are delays in paying benefits, [[Jobseeker's Allowance#Sanctioning|welfare sanctions]], and the recent reversal of the post-WWII trend for poor people's incomes to rise above or in line with increased costs for housing, utility bills and food.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|title='Pay benefits faster' to reduce hunger, MPs urge|first=Hannah|last=Richardson|work=BBC News|date=8 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=16 September 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160916182624/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-30346060|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=Food Bank Britain - A Clearer Picture|url=https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|publisher=The All-Party Parliamentary Inquiry into Hunger and Food Poverty in Britain|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=25 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150225085648/https://foodpovertyinquiry.files.wordpress.com/2014/12/food-poverty-feeding-britain-final.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title='Confront simple fact hunger stalks Britain' urges church-funded report|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=8 December 2014|access-date=23 December 2014|archive-date=11 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160411105221/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/dec/08/welfare-confront-simple-fact-hunger-stalks-britain-church-report|url-status=live}}</ref>
In 2013, the UK Government blocked a £22,000,000 [[European Union]] fund to help finance food banks in the UK. This disappointed [[Labour Party (UK)|Labour]] [[Member of the European Parliament|MEP]], [[Richard Howitt (politician)|Richard Howitt]], who assisted in negotiating the fund. Howitt stated:
{{Blockquote|It is very sad that our government is opposing this much-needed help for foodbanks on the basis that it is a national responsibility, when in reality it has no intention of providing the help itself. The only conclusion is that Conservative anti-European ideology is being put before the needs of the most destitute and deprived in our society.<ref>{{cite news|access-date=11 March 2017|date=17 December 2013|first1=Nicholas|last1=Watt|title=Government under fire for rejecting European Union food bank funding|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|work=The Guardian|archive-date=12 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170312084550/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/17/government-under-fire-eu-funding-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>}}
[[Haroon Siddiqui]] said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of [[United Kingdom government austerity programme|austerity]] and feels the government is reluctant to admit the obvious link. Siddiqui said that during the [[2017 United Kingdom general election|2017 general election campaign]], [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] [[Prime Minister of the United Kingdom|Prime Minister]], [[Theresa May]] was asked about even nurses (then subject to a 1% annual pay freeze) using food banks and May merely replied,
"There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks." Siddiqui wrote further, "(...) the reasons people turn to food banks are quite plain (and there have been studies that support them). The [[Trussell Trust]], the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn". Earlier [in 2018] it said that food banks in areas where the full [[Universal Credit]] service had been in place for 12 months or more were four times as busy.<ref>[https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks Tories have avoided the truth over austerity and food banks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180802112826/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/01/tories-have-avoided-the-truth-over-austerity-and-food-banks |date=2018-08-02 }} ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref>
Then-UK Prime Minister [[David Cameron]] said in the [[House of Commons of the United Kingdom|House of Commons]] in 2012 that he welcomed the efforts of food banks.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|title=House of Commons Hansard Debates for 23 May 2012 (pt 0001)|first=Department of the Official Report (Hansard), House of Commons|last=Westminster|work=Parliament.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 October 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161026110325/http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201213/cmhansrd/cm120523/debtext/120523-0001.htm|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Caroline Spelman]], his [[Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs]], has described food banks as an "excellent example" of active citizenship.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|title=Food banks: a life on handouts|first=Amelia|last=Gentleman|date=18 July 2012|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=7 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150707011851/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/jul/18/food-banks-on-hand-outs|url-status=live}}</ref> Labour MP [[Kate Green]] has a different view, feeling that the rise of food banks reflects people being let down by the [[Welfare State|state welfare system]], saying: "I feel a real burning anger about them ... People are very distressed at having to ask for food; it's humiliating and distressing."<ref name = "Amy"/> [[Cooking|Cookery]] [[writer]] and poverty campaigner [[Jack Monroe]] wrote that those referred to food banks or given vouchers were "the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong" and expressed concern for those who lack this support.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|title=Crisis? What crisis? How politicians ignore the existence of food banks|date=22 April 2015|access-date=11 March 2017|work=The Guardian|archive-date=11 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170311200110/https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/22/crisis-what-crisis-politicians-ignore-food-banks|url-status=live}}</ref>
Food banks need extra donations during the summer holidays because school children do not receive free school meals during that time.{{by whom|date=September 2021}}<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |title=Food banks appeal for help to feed children during school holidays |date=3 August 2018 |newspaper=[[The Guardian]] |access-date=3 August 2018 |archive-date=3 August 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180803074243/https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/aug/03/food-banks-appeal-for-help-to-feed-children-during-school-holidays |url-status=live }}</ref>
===Germany===
As of 2013, there were over 900 food banks in Germany, up from just 1 in 1993.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|title=The rise of foodbanks in Germany is increasing the commodification of poverty without addressing its structural causes|date=11 July 2013|work=LSE.ac.uk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=26 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126151825/http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2013/07/11/germany-foodbanks/|url-status=live}}</ref> In 2014, 1.5 million people a week used food banks in Germany.<ref name="bbc.co.uk">{{cite news|url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|title=Food bank use tiny compared with Germany, says minister|date=14 December 2014|access-date=11 March 2017|work=BBC News|archive-date=24 February 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180224013951/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-30470120|url-status=live}}</ref>{{update inline|date=September 2021}}
===France===
In total, around 3.5 million people rely on food banks in France.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |title=Dossier "Gaspillage Alimentaire, enjeux et pistes d'actions" |page=15 |access-date=2017-12-28 |archive-date=2017-12-28 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228054031/https://edd.ac-versailles.fr/IMG/pdf/DWOF_Dossier_Gaspillage_Alimentaire.pdf |url-status=live }}</ref> One provider, the Banque Alimentaire has over 100 branches in France, serving 200 a million meals a year to 1.85 million people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|title=How French law requires supermarkets to handover food|first=Peter|last=Allen|date=28 September 2016|website=www.standard.co.uk|access-date=27 December 2017|archive-date=28 December 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171228112306/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/foodforlondon/food-for-london-how-french-law-requires-supermarkets-to-hand-over-food-a3356136.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
==Asia==
Several Asian places have begun to use food banks; these include [[Nepal]], [[South Korea]], [[Japan]], [[Taiwan]] <ref name="focusTaiwan" /> and [[Singapore]].
===Hong Kong===
The first food bank in Hong Kong is [[Feeding Hong Kong]], which was founded in 2009.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|title=Beating waste and putting food on plates for needy|last=Lee|first=Danny|work=South China Morning Post|date=2 September 2013|access-date=5 November 2016|archive-date=4 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161104210148/http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1301375/beating-waste-and-putting-food-plates-needy|url-status=live}}</ref> [[Food Angel]] is also a food bank in Hong Kong<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|title=Food Angel - About|work=FoodAngel.org.hk|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=15 January 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170115110000/http://www.foodangel.org.hk/en/about.php|url-status=live}}</ref> as well as the Foodlink Foundation.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Reduce Food Waste {{!}} Foodlink Foundation |url=https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |access-date=2022-06-22 |website=www.food link foundation.org |archive-date=2022-05-17 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220517105358/https://www.foodlinkfoundation.org/about |url-status=dead }}</ref>
===Japan===
According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.<ref>{{Cite web |title= Soaring prices take toll on Japan's food banks |date= 18 July 2022 |url= https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |access-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-date= 15 December 2022 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20221215233647/https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2022/07/18/national/social-issues/food-banks-struggle/ |url-status= live }}</ref> As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
=== Singapore ===
Founded in 2012, The [[Food Bank Singapore]] is a registered charity and part of The Global Foodbanking Network (GFN) that has an outreach of over 50 countries. [https://www.foodfromtheheart.sg/ Food from the Heart] and [https://jfb.jamiyah.org.sg/ Jamiyah FoodBank] are also 2 other food banks in the food-insecure nation of Singapore.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Channel News Asia |date=16 Feb 2020 |title=Why in a cheap food paradise, some Singaporeans are still going hungry |url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/cnainsider/food-insecurity-singapore-hunger-poverty-777806 |url-status=live |access-date=22 Jul 2024 |work=Channel News Asia}}</ref>
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==Africa==
The Egyptian Food Bank was established in Cairo in 2006, and less than ten years later, food banks run on similar principles spread to other Arab countries in [[North Africa]] and the [[Middle East]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|title=Food banks follow Cairo recipe|work=GulfNews.com|author=Jumana Al Tamimi|date=1 October 2012|access-date=11 October 2012|archive-date=3 October 2012|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121003071210/http://gulfnews.com/news/region/egypt/food-banks-follow-cairo-recipe-1.1083254|url-status=live}}</ref>
In [[Sub-Saharan Africa]], there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural [[Least developed country|LDCs]] such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centres to provide smallholders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |title=''The hunger project'', overview for Malawi |publisher=Thp.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=24 July 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724042611/http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |url-status=dead }}</ref>
Formed in 2009, Food Bank South Africa (Food Bank SA) is South Africa's national food banking network and a member of ''The Global Food Banking Network''.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |title=FoodBank South Africa |work=Foodbank.org.za |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=19 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131019192634/http://www.foodbank.org.za/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Worldwide==
Since the 1980s food banking has spread around the world. There are over 40 countries and regions with active food bank groups under the umbrella of The Global Food Banking Network.<ref>{{cite web |website=www.foodbanking.org |url=https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |title=Who We Are |access-date=2022-03-28 |archive-date=2022-04-09 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220409133444/https://www.foodbanking.org/who-we-are/ |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.foodbanking.org/|title=Home - The Global FoodBanking Network|work=FoodBanking.org|access-date=11 March 2017|archive-date=24 March 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324025835/https://www.foodbanking.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> Countries and regions in the international network include Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Africa, Hong Kong, [[Foodbank Singapore|Singapore]], South Korea and the UK. There are also several countries with food banks which have not yet joined the network, either because they do not yet meet the required criteria or they have not applied.<ref name="focusTaiwan">{{cite news|url=http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |title=Taiwan to enjoy support from international food banking network |work=[[Focus Taiwan]] |author=Elaine How |date=30 September 2012 |access-date=1 October 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130113094443/http://focustaiwan.tw/ShowNews/WebNews_Detail.aspx?Type=aALL&ID=201209300017 |archive-date=13 January 2013 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |title=The Global Foodbanking Network |work=Foodbanking.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195410/http://www.foodbanking.org/site/PageServer?pagename=work_where |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Climate change==
Food banking and related models have been proposed as a key solution to the reduction [[greenhouse gas]] emissions.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | title=Reduced Food Waste @ProjectDrawdown #ClimateSolutions | date=6 February 2020 | access-date=2 May 2023 | archive-date=2 May 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502084857/https://www.drawdown.org/solutions/reduced-food-waste | url-status=live }}</ref> Around 8% of total emissions are due to food loss and waste.<ref>{{Cite report |url=https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |title=Food wastage footprint & Climate Change |last=Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations |date= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230510155121/https://www.fao.org/3/bb144e/bb144e.pdf |archive-date=2023-05-10 |url-status=live}}</ref> Through [[food rescue]] programs, food banks help reduce emissions by ensuring the productive use of energy involved in the production of food and by diverting food away from [[landfills]], where it would have spoiled and generated [[methane]] and other greenhouse gasses.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | title=Food Waste and its Links to Greenhouse Gases and Climate Change | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502050157/https://www.usda.gov/media/blog/2022/01/24/food-waste-and-its-links-greenhouse-gases-and-climate-change#:~:text=Food%20loss%20and%20waste%20also,even%20more%20potent%20greenhouse%20gas. | url-status=live }}</ref> One estimate puts the greenhouse gas avoidance from food banks at more than 1.7 million tons in 2021.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | title=GFN Member Food Banks Prevented 1.7 Million Tons of Carbon Emissions in 2021 by Reducing Food Loss and Waste | access-date=2023-05-02 | archive-date=2023-05-02 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230502051659/https://www.foodbanking.org/blogs/gfn-member-food-banks-prevented-1-7-million-tons-of-carbon-emissions-in-2021-by-reducing-food-loss-and-waste/#:~:text=Climate%20Change%20Mitigation-,GFN%20Member%20Food%20Banks%20Prevented%201.7%20Million%20Tons%20of%20Carbon,Reducing%20Food%20Loss%20and%20Waste&text=Members%20of%20The%20Global%20FoodBanking,cost%2Dof%2Dliving%20crisis. | url-status=live }}</ref>
==Reactions and concerns==
[[File:Flickr - boellstiftung - Olivier de Schutter auf der EcoFair Konferenz.jpg|thumb|[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior [[United Nations]] official, has cautioned Europe against allowing food banks to become a permanent partial replacement for welfare provision, as is the case in the U.S. and Canada.]]
The rise of food banks has been "broadly welcomed". For it is said that "not only do they provide a solution to the problem of hunger that does not require resources from the state", but they can be viewed "as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship". In the UK for example, Patrick Butler, society editor for ''[[The Guardian]]'', has said that:
"Many politicians and campaigners are fascinated by the possibilities of food banks. After the initial shock that "things have come to this" there is, on the left of the political spectrum, a nervous excitement about the potential for community self-help. On the right, there is outright enthusiasm for what is seen as "big society" welfare in its purest form."<ref name="Lambeth">{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|title=Food banks: Lambeth holds its breath, and its nose|work=The Guardian|author=Patrick Butler|date=21 August 2012|access-date=23 August 2012|archive-date=25 August 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130825214442/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2012/aug/21/food-banks-lambeth-council|url-status=live}}</ref>
There has also been concern expressed about food banks by some researchers and politicians. Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s, American Sociology Professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can contribute to the long-term erosion of human rights and support for welfare systems. Once food banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for meeting the needs of hungry people to the state.
Poppendieck says that the logistics of running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind-hearted people from having time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to lobby politicians for long-term changes, that would help those on a low income. They often have considerable credibility with legislators. As of 2012,{{update inline|date=September 2021}} senior US food bank staff members have "expressed a preference" to remain politically neutral/refused to take a stand, which political activists have suggested may relate to their sources of funding/political pressure.<ref name="WarwickConf" /><ref name="Lambeth" /><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|title=Food Banks Expand Beyond Hunger|work=The New York Times|author=Phyllis Korrki|date=8 November 2012|access-date=11 November 2012|archive-date=12 February 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160212214151/http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/food-banks-mission-expands-to-nutrition-and-education.html?_r=0|url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="Davis 2012">{{cite web|url=http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|title=How food banks became mainstream: the new reality of the working poor|work=[[New Statesman]]|author=Rowenna Davis|date=17 December 2012|access-date=23 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130117003018/http://www.newstatesman.com/rowenna-davis/2012/12/truth-about-food-banks-new-reality-working-poor|archive-date=17 January 2013|author-link=Rowenna Davis}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|title=Let's debate our need for food banks – a national disgrace|work=[[The Guardian]]|author=Jack Monroe|date=18 December 2013|access-date=17 January 2014|author-link=Jack Monroe|archive-date=2 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140102122955/http://www.theguardian.com/society/2013/dec/18/food-banks-parliamentary-debate-scandal|url-status=live}}</ref>
The emergence of "Little Free Food Pantries" and "Blessing Boxes", modelled on the "[[Little Free Library|Little Free Libraries]]" boxes, has been criticized as feel-good local philanthropy which is too small to make a significant impact on hunger, for its lack of access to fresh foods, for food safety concerns, and as a public relations effort by [[Tyson Foods]], which seeks to cut federal [[Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program|SNAP]] food assistance in the US.<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|title=What's Wrong With DIY Food Pantries|last=Capps|first=Kriston|date=25 July 2017|newspaper=Bloomberg.com|language=en|access-date=23 November 2019|archive-date=14 December 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191214125326/https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/07/little-free-pantry/534468/|url-status=live}}</ref>
Rachel Loopstra from [[University of Toronto]] has said food banks are often inefficient, unreliable and unable to supply nutritional food. She said a survey in Toronto found that only 1 in 5 families suffering from food insecurity would turn to food banks, in part because there is a stigma associated with having to do so.<ref name="Lambeth"/> Elizabeth Dowler, Professor of Food & Social Policy at [[Warwick University]], said that most British people prefer the state to take responsibility for helping the hungry. Hannah Lambie-Mumford, from [[Sheffield University]], echoed the view that some users of food banks find having to ask for food humiliating, and also that food bank volunteers should be encouraged to advocate for long-term solutions to the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.<ref name = "WarwickConf"/><ref name="Trussell">{{cite web|url=http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |title=The Trussell Trust Foodbank Network: Exploring the Growth of Foodbanks Across the UK |work=[[Coventry University]] |publisher=[[The Trussell Trust]] |author=Hannah Lambie-Mumford |date=11 November 2011 |access-date=23 August 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130112223915/http://www.trusselltrust.org/resources/documents/Our%20work/Lambie-%282011%29-The-Trussell-Trust-Foodbank-Network---Exploring-the-Growth-of-Foodbanks-Across-the-UK.pdf |archive-date=12 January 2013 }}</ref><ref name = "turn"/>
[[Olivier De Schutter]], a senior United Nations official charged with ensuring governments honour their obligation to safeguard their citizens [[right to food]], has expressed alarm at the rise of food banks. He has reminded the governments of the advanced economies in Europe and Canada that they have a "duty to protect" their citizens from hunger, and suggested that leaving such an obligation to food banks may be an abuse of human rights.<ref name = "UNofficial"/><ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|title=Food Poverty: UN Special Rapporteur Finds Austerity, Food Banks And Working Poor In UK 'Extremely Worrying'|publisher=Huffington Post|author=Jessica Elgot|date=19 February 2013|access-date=24 February 2013|archive-date=22 February 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130222022205/http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2013/02/19/food-poverty-un-special-rapporteur-olivier-de-schutter-banks-austerity_n_2714969.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|title=Food banks can only plug the holes in social safety nets|publisher=[[Gulf News]]|author=Patrick Butler (Guardian society editor) and [[Olivier De Schutter]]|date=2 March 2013|access-date=3 March 2013|archive-date=5 March 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130305004550/http://gulfnews.com/business/opinion/food-banks-can-only-plug-the-holes-in-social-safety-nets-1.1152524|url-status=dead}}</ref>
Other criticism expresses alarm at "transnational corporate food banking which construct[s] domestic hunger as a matter for charity, thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food."<ref>{{Cite book|title=Food bank nations: poverty, corporate charity and the right to food|last=Riches, Graham|isbn=978-1-351-72987-1|location=Abingdon, Oxon|oclc=1032721366}}</ref>
==See also==
{{Portal|Food}}
* [[Ag Against Hunger]]
* [[Canstruction]]
* [[Emerson Good Samaritan Food Donation Act]]
* [[FoodCloud]] (Ireland) <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest|title=Lanka Railway Digest|website=www.facebook.com|access-date=2023-02-27|archive-date=2023-02-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230227004210/https://www.facebook.com/LankaRailwayDigest/|url-status=live}}</ref>
* [[Food Not Bombs]]
* [[Food security]]
* [[Gleaners]]
* [[Good Shepherd Food Bank]]
* [[Hopelink]]
* [[List of food banks]]
* [[National Association of Letter Carriers#Letter carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive|National Association of Letter Carriers' Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive]]
* [[Northwest Harvest]]
* [[Olio (app)]]
* [[Poverty]]
==Notes==
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==Further reading==
* Canice Prendergast. 2017. "How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." ''Journal of Economic Perspectives'' 31(4): 145–162.
* Canice Prendergast. 2022. "The Allocation of Food to Food Banks". ''Journal of Political Economy''.
==References==
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==External links==
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<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Passing_out_groceries.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Passing_out_groceries.jpg/220px-Passing_out_groceries.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Passing_out_groceries.jpg/330px-Passing_out_groceries.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/ce/Passing_out_groceries.jpg/440px-Passing_out_groceries.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1524" data-file-height="1014" /></a><figcaption>Volunteers pass out food items from a food pantry run by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Feeding_America" title="Feeding America">Feeding America</a></figcaption></figure>
<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg/220px-Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="155" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg/330px-Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b0/Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg/440px-Fort_Bragg_Food_Bank_-_November_2022_-_Sarah_Stierch.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3580" data-file-height="2520" /></a><figcaption>Fort Bragg Food Bank in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Fort_Bragg,_California" title="Fort Bragg, California">Fort Bragg, California</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>A <b>food bank</b> is a non-profit, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Charitable_organization" title="Charitable organization">charitable organization</a> that distributes food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Hunger" title="Hunger">hunger</a>, usually through intermediaries like food pantries and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soup_kitchen" title="Soup kitchen">soup kitchens</a>. Some food banks distribute food directly with their food pantries.
</p><p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Food_Bank_Alliance" title="St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance">St. Mary's Food Bank</a> was the world's first food bank, established in the US in 1967. Since then, many thousands have been set up all over the world. In Europe, their numbers grew rapidly after the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2007%E2%80%932008_world_food_price_crisis" title="2007–2008 world food price crisis">global increase in the price of food</a> which began in late 2006, and especially after the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%932008" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–2008">financial crisis of 2007–2008</a> began to worsen economic conditions for those on low incomes. Likewise, the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2020s_in_economic_history" title="2020s in economic history">inflation and economic crisis of the 2020s</a> has exponentially driven low and even some middle income class consumers to at least partially get their food <sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1">[1]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>The growth of food banks has been welcomed by commentators who see them as examples of active, caring citizenship. Other academics and commentators have expressed concern that the rise of food banks may erode political support for welfare provision. Researchers have reported that in some cases food banks can be inefficient compared with state-run <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Welfare" title="Welfare">welfare</a>.
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-1"><a href="#Operational_models"><span class="tocnumber">1</span> <span class="toctext">Operational models</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-2"><a href="#United_States"><span class="tocnumber">2</span> <span class="toctext">United States</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-3"><a href="#History"><span class="tocnumber">2.1</span> <span class="toctext">History</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-4"><a href="#Food_aid_for_pets"><span class="tocnumber">2.2</span> <span class="toctext">Food aid for pets</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-5"><a href="#Food_pantries_for_students"><span class="tocnumber">2.3</span> <span class="toctext">Food pantries for students</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-6"><a href="#After_the_2007_financial_crisis"><span class="tocnumber">2.4</span> <span class="toctext">After the 2007 financial crisis</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-7"><a href="#Food_banks_and_COVID-19"><span class="tocnumber">2.5</span> <span class="toctext">Food banks and COVID-19</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-8"><a href="#Europe"><span class="tocnumber">3</span> <span class="toctext">Europe</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-9"><a href="#European_Union_programs"><span class="tocnumber">3.1</span> <span class="toctext">European Union programs</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-10"><a href="#United_Kingdom"><span class="tocnumber">3.2</span> <span class="toctext">United Kingdom</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-11"><a href="#UK_food_bank_users"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.1</span> <span class="toctext">UK food bank users</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-3 tocsection-12"><a href="#UK_government"><span class="tocnumber">3.2.2</span> <span class="toctext">UK government</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-13"><a href="#Germany"><span class="tocnumber">3.3</span> <span class="toctext">Germany</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-14"><a href="#France"><span class="tocnumber">3.4</span> <span class="toctext">France</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-15"><a href="#Asia"><span class="tocnumber">4</span> <span class="toctext">Asia</span></a>
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<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-16"><a href="#Hong_Kong"><span class="tocnumber">4.1</span> <span class="toctext">Hong Kong</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-17"><a href="#Japan"><span class="tocnumber">4.2</span> <span class="toctext">Japan</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-2 tocsection-18"><a href="#Singapore"><span class="tocnumber">4.3</span> <span class="toctext">Singapore</span></a></li>
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<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-19"><a href="#Africa"><span class="tocnumber">5</span> <span class="toctext">Africa</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-20"><a href="#Worldwide"><span class="tocnumber">6</span> <span class="toctext">Worldwide</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-21"><a href="#Climate_change"><span class="tocnumber">7</span> <span class="toctext">Climate change</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-22"><a href="#Reactions_and_concerns"><span class="tocnumber">8</span> <span class="toctext">Reactions and concerns</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-23"><a href="#See_also"><span class="tocnumber">9</span> <span class="toctext">See also</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-24"><a href="#Notes"><span class="tocnumber">10</span> <span class="toctext">Notes</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-25"><a href="#Further_reading"><span class="tocnumber">11</span> <span class="toctext">Further reading</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-26"><a href="#References"><span class="tocnumber">12</span> <span class="toctext">References</span></a></li>
<li class="toclevel-1 tocsection-27"><a href="#External_links"><span class="tocnumber">13</span> <span class="toctext">External links</span></a></li>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Operational_models">Operational models</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Operational models"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Insidecafb.png" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Insidecafb.png/220px-Insidecafb.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Insidecafb.png/330px-Insidecafb.png 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/93/Insidecafb.png/440px-Insidecafb.png 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="750" /></a><figcaption>The warehouse of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Capital_Area_Food_Bank" title="Capital Area Food Bank">Capital Area Food Bank</a></figcaption></figure>
<p>With thousands of food banks operating around the world, there are many different models.<sup id="cite_ref-global_history_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-global_history-3">[3]</a></sup>
</p><p>A major distinction between food banks is whether or not they operate on the "front line" model, giving out food directly to the hungry, or whether they operate with the "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Warehouse" title="Warehouse">warehouse</a>" model, supplying food to intermediaries like food pantries, soup kitchens and other front-line organizations.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4">[4]</a></sup> In the US, Australia and to an extent in Canada, the standard model is for food banks to act as warehouses rather than as suppliers to the end user, though there are exceptions. In other countries, food banks usually hand out food parcels direct to hungry people, providing the service that in the US is offered by <i>food pantries</i>.
</p><p>Another distinction is between the charity model and the labor union model. At least in Canada and the US, food banks run by charities often place relatively more weight on the salvaging of food that would otherwise go to waste, and on encouraging <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Volunteering" title="Volunteering">voluntarism</a>, whereas those run by unions can place greater emphasis on feeding the hungry by any means available, on providing work for the unemployed, and on education, especially on explaining to users their civil rights.<sup id="cite_ref-welfare_crisis_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welfare_crisis-5">[5]</a></sup>
</p><p>In the US, cities will often have a single food bank that acts as a centralized warehouse and will serve several hundred front-line agencies. Like a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Blood_bank" title="Blood bank">blood bank</a>, that warehouse serves as a single collection and distribution point for food donations. A food bank operates a lot like a for-profit food distributor, but in this case, it distributes food to charities, not to food retailers. There is often no charge to the charities, but some food banks do charge a small "shared maintenance" fee to help defray the cost of storage and distribution.
</p><p>For many US food banks, most of their donated food comes from food left over from the normal processes of for-profit companies. It can come from any part of the food chain, e.g. from growers who have produced too much or whose food is not sufficiently visually appealing; from manufacturers who overproduced; or from retailers who over-ordered. Often the product is approaching or past its "sell by" date. In such cases, the food bank liaises with the food industry and with regulators to make sure the food is safe and legal to distribute and eat.
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<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg/220px-US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg/330px-US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/15/US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg/440px-US_Navy_111123-N-HW977-185_Sailors_weigh_Thanksgiving_food_drive_donations_before_delivery_to_the_Corona-Norco_Settlement_House.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3552" data-file-height="2368" /></a><figcaption>Volunteers weigh food drive donations.</figcaption></figure>
<p>Other sources of food include the general public, sometimes in the form of "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_drive" title="Food drive">food drives</a>", and government programs that buy and distribute excess farm products mostly to help support higher commodity prices. Food banks can also buy food either at market prices or from wholesalers and retailers at discounted prices, often at a cost. Sometimes farmers will allow food banks to send <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Gleaning" title="Gleaning">gleaners</a> to salvage leftover crops for free once their primary harvest is complete. A few food banks have even taken over their farms, though such initiatives have not always been successful.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6">[6]</a></sup>
</p><p>Many food banks do not accept fresh produce, preferring canned or packaged food due to health and safety concerns, though some have tried to change this as part of a growing worldwide awareness of the importance of nutrition. As an example, in 2012, London Food Bank (Canada) started accepting perishable food, reporting that as well as the obvious health benefits, there were noticeable emotional benefits to recipients when they were given fresh food.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7">[7]</a></sup>
</p><p>Summer can be a challenging time for food banks, particularly in regions where school children are usually given regular free meals during term time. Spikes in demand can coincide with periods where donations fall due to folk being on holiday.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8">[8]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9">[9]</a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="United_States">United States</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: United States"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="History">History</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: History"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:US_Navy_090806-N-6220J-004_Sailors_and_Navy_Delayed_Entry_Program_members_serve_breakfast_to_homeless_men_and_women_at_Dorothy%27s_Soup_Kitchen_in_Salinas,_Calif._during_Salinas_Navy_Week_community_service_event.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/US_Navy_090806-N-6220J-004_Sailors_and_Navy_Delayed_Entry_Program_members_serve_breakfast_to_homeless_men_and_women_at_Dorothy%27s_Soup_Kitchen_in_Salinas%2C_Calif._during_Salinas_Navy_Week_community_service_event.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/US_Navy_090806-N-6220J-004_Sailors_and_Navy_Delayed_Entry_Program_members_serve_breakfast_to_homeless_men_and_women_at_Dorothy%27s_Soup_Kitchen_in_Salinas%2C_Calif._during_Salinas_Navy_Week_community_service_event.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c4/US_Navy_090806-N-6220J-004_Sailors_and_Navy_Delayed_Entry_Program_members_serve_breakfast_to_homeless_men_and_women_at_Dorothy%27s_Soup_Kitchen_in_Salinas%2C_Calif._during_Salinas_Navy_Week_community_service_event.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3830" data-file-height="2687" /></a><figcaption> In the U.S. and sometimes in Canada, food banks don't typically give food directly to the hungry. Instead they act as warehouses, supplying front-line agencies like this Californian <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soup_kitchen" title="Soup kitchen">soup kitchen</a>. (Picture taken in 2009, and shows members of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Navy" title="United States Navy">United States Navy</a> serving visitors.) </figcaption></figure>
<p>The world's first food bank was <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Food_Bank_Alliance" title="St. Mary's Food Bank Alliance">St. Mary's Food Bank</a> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Phoenix,_Arizona" title="Phoenix, Arizona">Phoenix, Arizona</a>, founded by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/John_van_Hengel" title="John van Hengel">John van Hengel</a> in 1967.<sup id="cite_ref-global_history_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-global_history-3">[3]</a></sup> According to sociology professor Janet Poppendieck, the hunger within the US was widely considered to be a solved problem until the mid-1960s.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup> By the mid-sixties, several states had ended the free distribution of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Federal_Surplus_Relief_Corporation" class="mw-redirect" title="Federal Surplus Relief Corporation">federal food surpluses</a>, instead providing an early form of food stamps which had the benefit of allowing recipients to choose food of their liking, rather than having to accept whatever happened to be in surplus at the time. However, there was a minimum charge and some people could not afford the stamps, leading to severe hunger.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup>
</p><p>One response from American society to the rediscovery of hunger was to step up the support provided by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Soup_kitchen" title="Soup kitchen">soup kitchens</a> and similar civil society food relief agencies – some of these dated back to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Depression" title="Great Depression">Great Depression</a> and earlier. In 1965, while volunteering for a community dining room, van Hengel learned that grocery stores often had to throw away food that had damaged packaging or was near expiration. He started collecting that food for the dining room but soon had too much for that one program. He thought of creating a central location from which any agency can receive donations. Described as a classic case of "if you build it they will come",<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11">[11]</a></sup> the first food bank was created with the help of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Mary%27s_Basilica,_Phoenix" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Mary's Basilica, Phoenix">St. Mary's Basilica</a>, which became the namesake of the organization.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12">[12]</a></sup>
</p><p>Food banks spread across the United States, and Canada. By 1976, van Hengel had established the organization known today as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Feeding_America" title="Feeding America">Feeding America</a>. As of the early 21st century, their network of over 200 food banks provides support for 90,000 projects. Other large networks exist such as <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.AmpleHarvest.org">AmpleHarvest.org</a>, created by <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://ampleharvest.org/CNN/">CNN Hero</a> and World Food Prize nominee Gary Oppenheimer which lists nearly 9,000 food pantries (1 out of every 4 in America) across all 50 states that are eager to receive surplus locally grown garden produce from any of America's 62 million home or community gardeners.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-13" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-13">[13]</a></sup>
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<figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/enwiki/wiki/File:Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg/220px-Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="/upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg/330px-Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg 1.5x, /upwiki/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg/440px-Free_Soup_For_the_Revolution.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1632" data-file-height="1224" /></a><figcaption><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_not_bombs" class="mw-redirect" title="Food not bombs">Food not bombs</a> a food bank and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cooperative" title="Cooperative">cooperative</a> that distributes food</figcaption></figure>
<p>In the 1980s, U.S. food banks began to grow rapidly. A second response to the "rediscovery" of hunger in the mid-sixties had been extensive lobbying of politicians to improve welfare. Until the 1980s, this approach had a greater impact.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup> In the 1970s, U.S. Federal expenditure on hunger relief grew by about 500%, with food stamps distributed free of charge to those in greatest need. According to Poppendieck, welfare was widely considered preferable to grassroots efforts, as the latter could be unreliable and did not give recipients consumer-style choice in the same way as did food stamps. It also risked recipients feeling humiliated by having to turn to charity. In the early 1980s, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Ronald_Reagan" title="Ronald Reagan">Ronald Reagan</a>'s administration scaled back welfare provision, leading to a rapid rise in activity from grassroots hunger relief agencies. According to a comprehensive government survey completed in 2002, over 90% of food banks were established in the US after 1981.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Walter_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Walter-14">[14]</a></sup> Poppendieck says that for the first few years after the change, there was vigorous opposition from the left, who argued that state welfare was much more suitable for meeting recipients needs. But in the decades that followed, food banks have become an accepted part of America's response to hunger.<sup id="cite_ref-sweet_10-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-sweet-10">[10]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-WarwickConf_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarwickConf-15">[15]</a></sup> Demand for the services of US food banks increased further in the late 1990s, after the "end of welfare as we know it" with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a>'s <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Personal_Responsibility_and_Work_Opportunity_Act" title="Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act">Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16">[16]</a></sup>
</p><p>In Canada, foodbanks underwent a period of rapid growth after the cutbacks in welfare that took place in the mid-1990s.<sup id="cite_ref-welfare_crisis_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-welfare_crisis-5">[5]</a></sup> As early as the 1980s, food banks had also begun to spread from the United States to the rest of the world. The first European food bank was founded in France in 1984. In the 1990s and early 2000s, food banks were established in South America, Africa, and Asia, in several cases with van Hengel acting as a consultant.<sup id="cite_ref-auto_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-auto-12">[12]</a></sup> In 2007, <i>The Global Food Banking Network</i> was formed.<sup id="cite_ref-global_history_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-global_history-3">[3]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17">[17]</a></sup>
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<p>Some U.S. cities have organizations that provide dog and cat food for pets whose owners qualify for food assistance. For example, <i>Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen</i> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Lawrenceville,_Georgia" title="Lawrenceville, Georgia">Lawrenceville, Georgia</a> is considered the largest pet food aid agency in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Georgia_(U.S._state)" title="Georgia (U.S. state)">Georgia</a>, distributing over 800,000 pounds of dog and cat food in 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc26_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ajc26-18">[18]</a></sup> <i>Daffy's Pet Soup Kitchen</i> was started in 1997 by Tom Wargo, a repairman who was working in an elderly woman's home when he noticed her sharing her <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Meals_On_Wheels" class="mw-redirect" title="Meals On Wheels">Meals On Wheels</a> lunch with her pet cat because she could not afford cat food.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc26_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ajc26-18">[18]</a></sup> Daffy's was one of seven non-profit organizations recognized by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Barefoot_Wine" class="mw-redirect" title="Barefoot Wine">Barefoot Wine</a> in 2013 through a $10,000 donation and by being featured on labels of the vintner's Impression Red Blend wines.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc26_18-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ajc26-18">[18]</a></sup> Pet Buddies Food Pantry in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Atlanta,_Georgia" class="mw-redirect" title="Atlanta, Georgia">Atlanta, Georgia</a> is another example of an establishment that provides food aid for pets.<sup id="cite_ref-ajc26_18-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ajc26-18">[18]</a></sup> The St. Augustine Humane Society in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/St._Augustine,_Florida" title="St. Augustine, Florida">St. Augustine, Florida</a>, distributes over 1,600 pounds of pet food each month to families who are experiencing economic hardship and cannot afford to feed their pets.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (September 2021)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Food_pantries_for_students">Food pantries for students</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Food pantries for students"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
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<p>The college and University Food Bank Alliance, which was formed in 2012, has 570 campus food pantries nationwide.<sup id="cite_ref-19" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-19">[19]</a></sup> On-campus food pantries were available at 70% of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/State_University_of_New_York" title="State University of New York">State University of New York</a> locations by 2019.<sup id="cite_ref-:0_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:0-20">[20]</a></sup>
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<p>Following the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Financial_crisis_of_2007%E2%80%9308" class="mw-redirect" title="Financial crisis of 2007–08">financial crisis of 2007–08</a>, and the lasting inflation in the price of food that began in late 2006, there has been a further increase in the number of individuals requesting help from American and Canadian food banks. By 2012, according to <i>Food Banks Canada</i>, over 850,000 Canadians needed help from a food bank each month.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-UNofficial_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNofficial-22">[22]</a></sup> For the United States, <i>Gleaners Indiana Food bank</i> reported in 2012 that there were then 50  million Americans struggling with food insecurity (about 1 in 6 of the population), with the number of individuals seeking help from food banks having increased by 46% since 2005.<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23">[23]</a></sup> According to a 2012 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/UCLA_School_of_Public_Health#Research_centers" class="mw-redirect" title="UCLA School of Public Health">UCLA Center for Health Policy Research</a> study, there has been a 40% increase in demand for Californian food banks since 2008, with married couples who both work sometimes requiring the aid of food banks.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24">[24]</a></sup> Dave Krepcho, Director of the <i>Second Harvest Food Bank</i> in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Orlando,_Florida" title="Orlando, Florida">Orlando</a>, has said that college-educated professional couples have begun to turn to food pantries.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25">[25]</a></sup>
</p><p>By mid-2012, US food banks had expressed concerns about the expected difficulty in feeding the hungry over the coming months. Rapidly rising demand has been coinciding with higher <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_prices" title="Food prices">food prices</a> and with a decrease in donations, partly as the food industry is becoming more efficient and so has less mislabelled and other slightly defective food to give away. Also, there has been less surplus federal food on offer.<sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26">[26]</a></sup> Additionally, there have been recent decreases in government funding, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_States_Congress" title="United States Congress">Congress</a> has been debating possible further cuts, including potentially billions of dollars from the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program" title="Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program">Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program</a> (food stamp program).<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27">[27]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28">[28]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-29" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-29">[29]</a></sup> In September 2012, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Feeding_America" title="Feeding America">Feeding America</a> launched <i>Hunger Action Month</i>, with events planned all over the nation. Food banks and other agencies involved hoped to raise awareness that about one in six Americans are struggling with hunger and to get more Americans involved in helping out.<sup id="cite_ref-30" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-30">[30]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-31" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-31">[31]</a></sup>
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<p>The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/COVID-19" title="COVID-19">COVID-19</a> outbreak impacted European food banks since value chains were notably disrupted and food banks lacked the support of volunteers. Compared to 2019, the amount of food distributed increased in 2020. Possibly through an increase in people in need. At the same time, the deliveries of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Shelf-stable_food" title="Shelf-stable food">shelf-stable food</a> decreased by 20% due to panic shopping/Hoarding, especially at the beginning of the crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32">[32]</a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Europe">Europe</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Europe"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>The first European food bank was opened in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/France" title="France">France</a> in 1984.<sup id="cite_ref-global_history_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-global_history-3">[3]</a></sup> The first food bank in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Italy" title="Italy">Italy</a> was established in 1989. Similar to the UK's experience, food banks have become much more common across continental Europe since the crisis that began in 2008.
</p><p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Spain" title="Spain">Spain</a>, food banks can operate on the warehouse model, supplying a network of surrounding soup kitchens and other food relief agencies. The <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Spanish_federation_of_food_banks&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Spanish federation of food banks (page does not exist)">Spanish federation of food banks</a><span class="noprint" style="font-size:85%; font-style: normal;"> [<a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federaci%C3%B3n_Espa%C3%B1ola_de_Bancos_de_Alimentos" class="extiw" title="es:Federación Española de Bancos de Alimentos">es</a>]</span> helped to feed about 800,000 people during 2008–11, according to the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Carrefour#Carrefour_Foundation" title="Carrefour">Carrefour Foundation</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-33" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-33">[33]</a></sup> By October 2014, Spain had 55 food banks in total, with the number who depend on them having increased to 1.5  million.<sup id="cite_ref-34" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-34">[34]</a></sup>
</p><p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Belgium" title="Belgium">Belgium</a>, food banks helped about 121,000 people in 2012. That was an increase of about 4,500 compared with 2011, the biggest increase since the start of the 2008 crisis. Belgian food banks account for about 65% of all food aid given out within the country.<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35">[35]</a></sup>
</p><p>The number of food banks has increased rapidly in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Germany" title="Germany">Germany</a>, a country that weathered the crisis relatively well, and did not implement severe austerity measures. In 2012, professor Sabine Pfeiffer of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Munich_University_of_Applied_Sciences" title="Munich University of Applied Sciences">Munich University of Applied Sciences</a> said there has been an "explosion" of food bank usage.<sup id="cite_ref-WarwickConf_15-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarwickConf-15">[15]</a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="European_Union_programs">European Union programs</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: European Union programs"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>While many European food banks have long been run by civil society with no government assistance, an EU-funded project, the <i>Most deprived persons program</i> (MDP), had specialized in supplying food to marginalized people who are not covered by the benefits system and who were in some cases reluctant to approach the more formal food banks. The program involved the EU buying surplus agricultural products, which were then distributed to the poor largely by Catholic churches. The MDP was wound down in late 2013 and was replaced by the <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Fund_for_European_Aid_to_the_Most_Deprived&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived (page does not exist)">Fund for European Aid to the Most Deprived</a> (FEAD), which is set to run until at least 2020. The FEAD program has a wider scope than the MDP, helping deprived people not just with food aid, but with social inclusion projects and housing. The actual methods employed by FEAD tend to vary from country to country, but in several EU states, such as Poland, its activities include helping to fund local food bank networks.<sup id="cite_ref-WarwickConf_15-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarwickConf-15">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36">[36]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37">[37]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38">[38]</a></sup>
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<p>In 2022 there were over 2,572 UK food banks in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41">[41]</a></sup>
</p><p>Professor Jon May, of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Queen_Mary_University_of_London" title="Queen Mary University of London">Queen Mary University of London</a> and the Independent Food Aid Network said statistics showed a rapid rise in several food banks during the last five years.
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<p>Though food banks were rarely seen in the UK in the second half of the twentieth century, their use has started to grow, especially in the 2000s, and have since dramatically expanded.<sup id="cite_ref-:1_39-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-:1-39">[39]</a></sup> The increase in the dependency on food banks has been blamed by some, such as <i>Guardian</i> columnist George Monbiot,<sup id="cite_ref-43" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-43">[43]</a></sup> on the 2008 recession and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> government's <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme" title="United Kingdom government austerity programme">austerity</a> policies.<sup id="cite_ref-44" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-44">[44]</a></sup> These policies included cuts to the welfare state and caps on the total amount of welfare support that a family can claim.<sup id="cite_ref-45" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-45">[45]</a></sup> The OECD found that people answered yes to the question 'Have there been times in the past 12 months when you did not have enough money to buy food that you or your family needed?' It decreased from 9.8% in 2007 to 8.1% in 2012,<sup id="cite_ref-oecd_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-oecd-46">[46]</a></sup> with <i>Spectator</i> editor Toby Young speculating in 2015 that the initial rise was due to both more awareness of food banks, and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobcentre" class="mw-redirect" title="Jobcentre">Jobcentres</a> referring people to food banks when they were hungry.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47">[47]</a></sup>
</p><p>Rachel Loopstra, lecturer on <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nutrition" title="Nutrition">nutrition</a> at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/King%27s_College_London" title="King's College London">King's College London</a> and food insecurity expert, said:
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<p>Those who are short of food are likely to frequently also be short of other essential products, like shampoo and basic hygiene products (e.g. soap, toilet rolls and sanitary products). Some people must choose between buying food and buying basic toiletries.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48">[48]</a></sup>
</p><p>As of January 2014, the largest group co-ordinating UK food banks was <a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Trussell_Trust" title="The Trussell Trust">The Trussell Trust</a>, a Christian charity based organization in Salisbury. About 43% of the UK's food banks were run by Trussell, about 20% by smaller church networks such as Besom and Basic,<sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49">[49]</a></sup> about 31% were independent, and about 4% were run by secular food bank networks such as <i>Fare Share</i> and <i>Food Cycle</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50">[50]</a></sup>
</p><p>Before the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Great_Recession" title="Great Recession">2008 credit crunch</a>, food banks were "almost unheard of" in the UK.<sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51">[51]</a></sup> In 2004, Trussell only ran two food banks. <sup id="cite_ref-Trussell_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trussell-52">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hannah_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hannah-53">[53]</a></sup> In 2011, about one new food bank was being opened per week. In 2012, the Trussell Trust reported that the rate of new openings had increased to three per week. In August, the rate of new openings spiked to four per week, with three new food banks being opened in that month for <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nottingham" title="Nottingham">Nottingham</a> alone.<sup id="cite_ref-rise_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rise-54">[54]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-childrenFirst_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-childrenFirst-55">[55]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Amy_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amy-56">[56]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57">[57]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58">[58]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-modell_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-modell-59">[59]</a></sup> In 2022 the number of food banks run by Trussell had risen to over 1,400.
</p><p>Most UK food banks are hosted by churches in partnership with the wider community. They operate on the "frontline" model, giving out food directly to the hungry. Over 90% of the food given out is donated by the public, including schools, churches, businesses and individuals. The Trussell Trust had aimed to provide short-term support for people whose needs have not yet been addressed by official state welfare provision; those who had been "falling into the cracks in the system". The Trussell franchise has procedures which aim to prevent long-term dependency on their services and to ensure that those in need are referred to qualified outside agencies. The charity suggests that the <i>credit crunch</i> caused an upsurge in the number of people needing emergency food.
</p><p>Since 2010, demand for food banks continued to increase, and at a more rapid rate, partly as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme" title="United Kingdom government austerity programme">austerity</a> began to take effect, and partly as those on low incomes began to draw down savings and run out of friends of whom they were willing to ask for help. Unlike <i>soup kitchens</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60">[a]</a></sup> most, but not all UK food banks are unable to help people who come in off the street without a referral – instead, they operate with a referral system. Vouchers are handed out to those in need by various sorts of frontline care professionals, such as <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Social_workers" class="mw-redirect" title="Social workers">social workers</a>, health visitors, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Citizens_Advice_Bureau" class="mw-redirect" title="Citizens Advice Bureau">Citizens Advice Bureaux</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobcentre" class="mw-redirect" title="Jobcentre">Jobcentres</a> and housing officials. The voucher can typically be exchanged at the food bank for a package of food sufficient to last three days. The year to April 2013 saw close to 350,000 referrals to Trussell Trust foodbanks, more than double the amount from the previous year.<sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61">[60]</a></sup>
</p><p>Several food banks have been set up outside of the Trussell system, some faith-based, others secular <sup id="cite_ref-Guardian29/5/2017_42-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Guardian29/5/2017-42">[42]</a></sup> in part as they do not like having to turn away people without referrals, although Trussell Trust food banks do help clients in need without vouchers to get one as quickly as possible. There is also <a href="/enwiki/wiki/FareShare" title="FareShare">FareShare</a>, a <a href="/enwiki/wiki/London" title="London">London</a>-based charity which operates some nineteen depots on the American-style warehouse model. Rather than giving out food directly to individuals, FareShare distributes food to over 700 smaller agencies, mainly smaller independent operations like soup kitchens and breakfast clubs.<sup id="cite_ref-Trussell_52-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trussell-52">[52]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-rise_54-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-rise-54">[54]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-childrenFirst_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-childrenFirst-55">[55]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Amy_56-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amy-56">[56]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62">[61]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63">[62]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64">[63]</a></sup> Great emphasis is placed on reducing <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_waste" class="mw-redirect" title="Food waste">food waste</a> as well as relieving food poverty. Fareshare operates on a business basis, employing several Managers to oversee operations alongside their army of volunteers. Employee costs constituted over 50% of their expenditure in both 2011 and 2012.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65">[64]</a></sup>
</p><p>People who turn to food banks are typically grateful both for the food and for the warmth and kindness they receive from the volunteers.<sup id="cite_ref-Hannah_53-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hannah-53">[53]</a></sup> However, sometimes food banks have run out of supplies by the time they arrive.<sup id="cite_ref-Amy_56-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amy-56">[56]</a></sup> Some find it humiliating to have to ask for food, and the packages they receive do not always seem nutritious.<sup id="cite_ref-Hannah_53-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hannah-53">[53]</a></sup> Some food banks have tried to respond with innovative programs; <i>London Street Food bank</i> for example began asking donors to send in supermarket vouchers so that those they serve will be able to choose food that best meets their nutritional needs.<sup id="cite_ref-Hannah_53-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hannah-53">[53]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Amy_56-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amy-56">[56]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-turn_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-turn-66">[65]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67">[66]</a></sup>
</p><p>The Trussell Trust revealed a 47% increase in several three-day emergency supplies provided by their food banks in December 2016 compared to the monthly average for the 2016–17 financial year.<sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68">[67]</a></sup> Public donations in December 2016 meant foodbanks met the increased need in that month, but donations in January, February and March 2017 all fell below the monthly average of 931 tonnes for the 2016-17 financial year.
</p><p>Although going for a few years by various small charities around the world, 2017 saw a significant increase in media coverage and take up of the reverse advent calendar. The UK Money bloggers campaign<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69">[68]</a></sup> encouraging the public to give something to a food bank every day for 25 days was covered by <i>The Mirror</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70">[69]</a></sup> <i>The Guardian</i><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71">[70]</a></sup> and others. Emma Revie of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Trussell_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Trussell Trust">Trussell Trust</a> said, "for too many people, staying above water is a daily struggle".<sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72">[71]</a></sup>
</p><p>Food bank use has increased since <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Universal_Credit#Criticism" title="Universal Credit">Universal Credit</a> was implemented as part of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Welfare_Reform_Act_2012" title="Welfare Reform Act 2012">Welfare Reform Act 2012</a>. Delays in providing the first payment force claimants to use food banks, also Universal Credit does not provide enough to cover basic living expenses. Claiming Universal Credit is complex and the system is hard to navigate, many claimants cannot afford internet access and cannot access online help with claiming. A report by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Trussell_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Trussell Trust">Trussell Trust</a> says:
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<p>UK food banks appealed for volunteers and supplies, fearing an increase in demand for food as Universal Credit was rolled out further.<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74">[73]</a></sup>
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<p>According to a May 2013 report by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Oxfam" title="Oxfam">Oxfam</a> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Church_Action_on_Poverty" title="Church Action on Poverty">Church Action on Poverty</a>, about half a million Britons had used food banks. The Trussell Trust reports that their food banks alone helped feed 346,992 people in 2012–13.<sup id="cite_ref-75" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-75">[74]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76">[75]</a></sup> Numbers using food banks more than doubled during the period 2012–13.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77">[76]</a></sup> <i>"Foodbanks help prevent crime, housing loss, family breakdown and mental health problems."</i> Reasons why people have difficulty getting enough to eat include <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Layoff" title="Layoff">redundancy</a>, sickness, delays over receiving <a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Category:United_Kingdom_pensions_and_benefits&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Category:United Kingdom pensions and benefits (page does not exist)">benefits</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Domestic_violence" title="Domestic violence">domestic violence</a>, family breakdown, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Debt" title="Debt">debt</a>, and additional fuel costs in winter.<sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78">[77]</a></sup> Some clients of foodbanks are at work but cannot afford everything they need due to low pay.<sup id="cite_ref-Davis_2012_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davis_2012-79">[78]</a></sup>
</p><p>Close to half of those needing to use food banks have had issues with their benefit payments. <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Sanctioning" title="Jobseeker's Allowance">Sanctioning benefits</a> was the single most frequent reason for food bank referrals and there has been criticism over sanctions being imposed for allegedly <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Criticism_of_sanctions" title="Jobseeker's Allowance">spurious reasons</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80">[79]</a></sup>
</p><p>A joint report from the Trussell Trust, the Church of England, and the charities Oxfam and Child Poverty Action Group found that food bank users were more likely to live in rented accommodation, be single adults or lone parents, be unemployed, and have experienced a "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Criticism_of_sanctions" title="Jobseeker's Allowance">sanction</a>", where their unemployment benefits were cut for at least one month<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81">[80]</a></sup>
</p><p>Delays in payment of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Housing_benefit" class="mw-redirect" title="Housing benefit">housing benefit</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82">[81]</a></sup> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Disability_benefit" class="mw-redirect" title="Disability benefit">disability benefit</a><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83">[82]</a></sup> and other benefits <sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84">[83]</a></sup> and general <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Bureaucracy" title="Bureaucracy">bureaucratic</a> issues with benefits<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85">[84]</a></sup> can force people to use food banks. Many further people who need food banks have low-income jobs but struggle to afford food after making debt repayments and all other expenses. Low-paid workers, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Part-time_worker" class="mw-redirect" title="Part-time worker">part-time workers</a> and those with <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Zero-hour_contract" title="Zero-hour contract">zero-hour contracts</a> are particularly vulnerable to financial crisis and sometimes need the assistance of food banks.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86">[85]</a></sup> As had been predicted, demand for food banks further increased after cuts to welfare came into effect in April 2013, which included the abolition of Crisis loans.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87">[86]</a></sup> In April 2014, Trussell reported that they had handed out 913,000 food parcels in the last year, up from 347,000 the year before. Several councils have begun looking at funding food banks to increase their capability, as cuts to their budgets mean they will be less able to help vulnerable people directly.<sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88">[87]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89">[88]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90">[89]</a></sup>
</p><p>Sabine Goodwin, an Independent Food Aid Network researcher, said most food bank workers reported increasing demand for food aid.
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<p>According to an all-party parliamentary report released in December 2014, key reasons for the increased demand for UK foodbanks are delays in paying benefits, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jobseeker%27s_Allowance#Sanctioning" title="Jobseeker's Allowance">welfare sanctions</a>, and the recent reversal of the post-WWII trend for poor people's incomes to rise above or in line with increased costs for housing, utility bills and food.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91">[90]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92">[91]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93">[92]</a></sup>
</p><p>In 2013, the UK Government blocked a £22,000,000 <a href="/enwiki/wiki/European_Union" title="European Union">European Union</a> fund to help finance food banks in the UK. This disappointed <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Labour_Party_(UK)" title="Labour Party (UK)">Labour</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Member_of_the_European_Parliament" title="Member of the European Parliament">MEP</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Richard_Howitt_(politician)" title="Richard Howitt (politician)">Richard Howitt</a>, who assisted in negotiating the fund. Howitt stated:
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<p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Haroon_Siddiqui" title="Haroon Siddiqui">Haroon Siddiqui</a> said that the rise in food bank use coincided with the imposition of <a href="/enwiki/wiki/United_Kingdom_government_austerity_programme" title="United Kingdom government austerity programme">austerity</a> and feels the government is reluctant to admit the obvious link. Siddiqui said that during the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/2017_United_Kingdom_general_election" title="2017 United Kingdom general election">2017 general election campaign</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Conservative_Party_(UK)" title="Conservative Party (UK)">Conservative</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="Prime Minister of the United Kingdom">Prime Minister</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Theresa_May" title="Theresa May">Theresa May</a> was asked about even nurses (then subject to a 1% annual pay freeze) using food banks and May merely replied,
</p><p>"There are many complex reasons why people go to food banks." Siddiqui wrote further, "(...) the reasons people turn to food banks are quite plain (and there have been studies that support them). The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Trussell_Trust" class="mw-redirect" title="Trussell Trust">Trussell Trust</a>, the UK's biggest food bank network, has said that they help people with "nowhere else to turn". Earlier [in 2018] it said that food banks in areas where the full <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Universal_Credit" title="Universal Credit">Universal Credit</a> service had been in place for 12 months or more were four times as busy.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95">[94]</a></sup>
</p><p>Then-UK Prime Minister <a href="/enwiki/wiki/David_Cameron" title="David Cameron">David Cameron</a> said in the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/House_of_Commons_of_the_United_Kingdom" title="House of Commons of the United Kingdom">House of Commons</a> in 2012 that he welcomed the efforts of food banks.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96">[95]</a></sup> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Caroline_Spelman" title="Caroline Spelman">Caroline Spelman</a>, his <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Secretary_of_State_for_Environment,_Food_and_Rural_Affairs" title="Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs">Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs</a>, has described food banks as an "excellent example" of active citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97">[96]</a></sup> Labour MP <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Kate_Green" title="Kate Green">Kate Green</a> has a different view, feeling that the rise of food banks reflects people being let down by the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Welfare_State" class="mw-redirect" title="Welfare State">state welfare system</a>, saying: "I feel a real burning anger about them ... People are very distressed at having to ask for food; it's humiliating and distressing."<sup id="cite_ref-Amy_56-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Amy-56">[56]</a></sup> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Cooking" title="Cooking">Cookery</a> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Writer" title="Writer">writer</a> and poverty campaigner <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Jack_Monroe" title="Jack Monroe">Jack Monroe</a> wrote that those referred to food banks or given vouchers were "the lucky ones with a good doctor or health visitor who knows us well enough to recognize that something has gone seriously wrong" and expressed concern for those who lack this support.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98">[97]</a></sup>
</p><p>Food banks need extra donations during the summer holidays because school children do not receive free school meals during that time.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Words_to_watch#Unsupported_attributions" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Words to watch"><span title="The material near this tag may use weasel words or too-vague attribution. (September 2021)">by whom?</span></a></i>]</sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99">[98]</a></sup>
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<p>As of 2013, there were over 900 food banks in Germany, up from just 1 in 1993.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100">[99]</a></sup> In 2014, 1.5 million people a week used food banks in Germany.<sup id="cite_ref-bbc.co.uk_101-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc.co.uk-101">[100]</a></sup><sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (September 2021)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup>
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<p>In total, around 3.5  million people rely on food banks in France.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102">[101]</a></sup> One provider, the Banque Alimentaire has over 100 branches in France, serving 200  a million meals a year to 1.85  million people.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103">[102]</a></sup>
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<p>Several Asian places have begun to use food banks; these include <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Nepal" title="Nepal">Nepal</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/South_Korea" title="South Korea">South Korea</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Japan" title="Japan">Japan</a>, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Taiwan" title="Taiwan">Taiwan</a> <sup id="cite_ref-focusTaiwan_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-focusTaiwan-104">[103]</a></sup> and <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Singapore" title="Singapore">Singapore</a>.
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<p>The first food bank in Hong Kong is <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Feeding_Hong_Kong" title="Feeding Hong Kong">Feeding Hong Kong</a>, which was founded in 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105">[104]</a></sup> <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_Angel" title="Food Angel">Food Angel</a> is also a food bank in Hong Kong<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106">[105]</a></sup> as well as the Foodlink Foundation.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107">[106]</a></sup>
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<p>According to the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries in Japan, the number of such organizations stood at 178 in the FY2022 through March, marking a significant increase from the 120 seen two years earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108">[107]</a></sup> As of 2022, there was at least one food bank organization in every prefecture in Japan. The importance of food banks has become more recognized during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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<p>Founded in 2012, The <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_Bank_Singapore" title="Food Bank Singapore">Food Bank Singapore</a> is a registered charity and part of The Global Foodbanking Network (GFN) that has an outreach of over 50 countries. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.foodfromtheheart.sg/">Food from the Heart</a> and <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://jfb.jamiyah.org.sg/">Jamiyah FoodBank</a> are also 2 other food banks in the food-insecure nation of Singapore.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109">[108]</a></sup>
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<li id="cite_note-21"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-21">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131029200729/http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx">"On World Food Day, October 16th, Food Banks Canada is asking Canadians to take action in support of local food banks"</a>. <i>Foodbankscanada.ca</i>. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.foodbankscanada.ca/Media/News-Releases/On-World-Food-Day,-October-16th,-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx">the original</a> on 29 October 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">25 October</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Foodbankscanada.ca&rft.atitle=On+World+Food+Day%2C+October+16th%2C+Food+Banks+Canada+is+asking+Canadians+to+take+action+in+support+of+local+food+banks&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.foodbankscanada.ca%2FMedia%2FNews-Releases%2FOn-World-Food-Day%2C-October-16th%2C-Food-Banks-Canada.aspx&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFood+bank" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-UNofficial-22"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-UNofficial_22-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1215172403"><cite id="CITEREFCharlie_Cooper2013" class="citation news cs1">Charlie Cooper (17 February 2013). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html">"UN official alarmed by the rise of food banks in UK"</a>. <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Independent" title="The Independent">The Independent</a></i>. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20130222061829/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/un-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html">Archived</a> from the original on 22 February 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">23 February</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Independent&rft.atitle=UN+official+alarmed+by+the+rise+of+food+banks+in+UK&rft.date=2013-02-17&rft.au=Charlie+Cooper&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.independent.co.uk%2Fnews%2Fuk%2Fhome-news%2Fun-official-alarmed-by-rise-of-food-banks-in-uk-8498791.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AFood+bank" class="Z3988"></span></span>
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<li id="cite_note-23"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-23">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.gleaners.org/">Gleaners Indiana Food bank</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220325142147/https://www.gleaners.org/">Archived</a> 2022-03-25 at the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wayback_Machine" title="Wayback Machine">Wayback Machine</a> Retrieved 18 July 2012</span>
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<li id="cite_note-26"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-26">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Several food banks receive federal food surpluses as part of the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Emergency_Food_Assistance_and_Soup_Kitchen-Food_Bank_Program" title="Emergency Food Assistance and Soup Kitchen-Food Bank Program">Emergency Food Assistance Program</a>. As the price of food was high throughout 2012, federal authorities were buying less on the market, and so had less to give away to food banks.</span>
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<p>The Egyptian Food Bank was established in Cairo in 2006, and less than ten years later, food banks run on similar principles spread to other Arab countries in <a href="/enwiki/wiki/North_Africa" title="North Africa">North Africa</a> and the <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Middle_East" title="Middle East">Middle East</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-110" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-110">[1]</a></sup>
</p><p>In <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sub-Saharan_Africa" title="Sub-Saharan Africa">Sub-Saharan Africa</a>, there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Least_developed_country" class="mw-redirect" title="Least developed country">LDCs</a> such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centres to provide smallholders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111">[2]</a></sup>
</p><p>Formed in 2009, Food Bank South Africa (Food Bank SA) is South Africa's national food banking network and a member of <i>The Global Food Banking Network</i>.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112">[3]</a></sup>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Worldwide">Worldwide</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: Worldwide"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<p>Since the 1980s food banking has spread around the world. There are over 40 countries and regions with active food bank groups under the umbrella of The Global Food Banking Network.<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113">[4]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-114" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-114">[5]</a></sup> Countries and regions in the international network include Australia, Israel, Turkey, Russia, India, Taiwan, Colombia, Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, South Africa, Hong Kong, <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Foodbank_Singapore" class="mw-redirect" title="Foodbank Singapore">Singapore</a>, South Korea and the UK. There are also several countries with food banks which have not yet joined the network, either because they do not yet meet the required criteria or they have not applied.<sup id="cite_ref-focusTaiwan_115-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-focusTaiwan-115">[6]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116">[7]</a></sup>
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<p>Food banking and related models have been proposed as a key solution to the reduction <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Greenhouse_gas" title="Greenhouse gas">greenhouse gas</a> emissions.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117">[8]</a></sup> Around 8% of total emissions are due to food loss and waste.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118">[9]</a></sup> Through <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Food_rescue" title="Food rescue">food rescue</a> programs, food banks help reduce emissions by ensuring the productive use of energy involved in the production of food and by diverting food away from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Landfills" class="mw-redirect" title="Landfills">landfills</a>, where it would have spoiled and generated <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Methane" title="Methane">methane</a> and other greenhouse gasses.<sup id="cite_ref-119" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-119">[10]</a></sup> One estimate puts the greenhouse gas avoidance from food banks at more than 1.7 million tons in 2021.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120">[11]</a></sup>
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<p>The rise of food banks has been "broadly welcomed". For it is said that "not only do they provide a solution to the problem of hunger that does not require resources from the state", but they can be viewed "as evidence of increasing community spirit and of active, caring citizenship". In the UK for example, Patrick Butler, society editor for <i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i>, has said that:
</p><p>"Many politicians and campaigners are fascinated by the possibilities of food banks. After the initial shock that "things have come to this" there is, on the left of the political spectrum, a nervous excitement about the potential for community self-help. On the right, there is outright enthusiasm for what is seen as "big society" welfare in its purest form."<sup id="cite_ref-Lambeth_121-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lambeth-121">[12]</a></sup>
</p><p>There has also been concern expressed about food banks by some researchers and politicians. Drawing on the United States's experience after the rapid rise of food banks in the 1980s, American Sociology Professor Janet Poppendieck warned that the rise of food banks can contribute to the long-term erosion of human rights and support for welfare systems. Once food banks become well established, it can be politically impossible to return responsibility for meeting the needs of hungry people to the state.
</p><p>Poppendieck says that the logistics of running food banks can be so demanding that they prevent kind-hearted people from having time to participate in public policy advocacy; yet she also says if they can be encouraged to lobby politicians for long-term changes, that would help those on a low income. They often have considerable credibility with legislators. As of 2012,<sup class="noprint Inline-Template" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style/Dates_and_numbers#Chronological_items" title="Wikipedia:Manual of Style/Dates and numbers"><span title="The date of the event predicted near this tag has passed. (September 2021)">needs update</span></a></i>]</sup> senior US food bank staff members have "expressed a preference" to remain politically neutral/refused to take a stand, which political activists have suggested may relate to their sources of funding/political pressure.<sup id="cite_ref-WarwickConf_122-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarwickConf-122">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Lambeth_121-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lambeth-121">[12]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123">[14]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Davis_2012_124-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Davis_2012-124">[15]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125">[16]</a></sup>
</p><p>The emergence of "Little Free Food Pantries" and "Blessing Boxes", modelled on the "<a href="/enwiki/wiki/Little_Free_Library" title="Little Free Library">Little Free Libraries</a>" boxes, has been criticized as feel-good local philanthropy which is too small to make a significant impact on hunger, for its lack of access to fresh foods, for food safety concerns, and as a public relations effort by <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Tyson_Foods" title="Tyson Foods">Tyson Foods</a>, which seeks to cut federal <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Supplemental_Nutrition_Assistance_Program" title="Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program">SNAP</a> food assistance in the US.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126">[17]</a></sup>
</p><p>Rachel Loopstra from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/University_of_Toronto" title="University of Toronto">University of Toronto</a> has said food banks are often inefficient, unreliable and unable to supply nutritional food. She said a survey in Toronto found that only 1 in 5 families suffering from food insecurity would turn to food banks, in part because there is a stigma associated with having to do so.<sup id="cite_ref-Lambeth_121-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lambeth-121">[12]</a></sup> Elizabeth Dowler, Professor of Food & Social Policy at <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Warwick_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Warwick University">Warwick University</a>, said that most British people prefer the state to take responsibility for helping the hungry. Hannah Lambie-Mumford, from <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Sheffield_University" class="mw-redirect" title="Sheffield University">Sheffield University</a>, echoed the view that some users of food banks find having to ask for food humiliating, and also that food bank volunteers should be encouraged to advocate for long-term solutions to the underlying causes of poverty and hunger.<sup id="cite_ref-WarwickConf_122-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-WarwickConf-122">[13]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Trussell_127-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Trussell-127">[18]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-turn_128-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-turn-128">[19]</a></sup>
</p><p><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Olivier_De_Schutter" title="Olivier De Schutter">Olivier De Schutter</a>, a senior United Nations official charged with ensuring governments honour their obligation to safeguard their citizens <a href="/enwiki/wiki/Right_to_food" title="Right to food">right to food</a>, has expressed alarm at the rise of food banks. He has reminded the governments of the advanced economies in Europe and Canada that they have a "duty to protect" their citizens from hunger, and suggested that leaving such an obligation to food banks may be an abuse of human rights.<sup id="cite_ref-UNofficial_129-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-UNofficial-129">[20]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130">[21]</a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131">[22]</a></sup>
</p><p>Other criticism expresses alarm at "transnational corporate food banking which construct[s] domestic hunger as a matter for charity, thereby allowing indifferent and austerity-minded governments to ignore increasing poverty and food insecurity and their moral, legal and political obligations, under international law, to realize the right to food."<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132">[23]</a></sup>
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<li id="cite_note-60"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-60">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Soup kitchens will typically feed anyone if they have food available, but they can often only provide a single meal. A food bank on the other hand will typically give a package of food sufficient to last for several days.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/enwiki/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (December 2019)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></span>
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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/enwiki/w/index.php?title=Food_bank&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Further reading"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div>
<ul><li>Canice Prendergast. 2017. "How Food Banks Use Markets to Feed the Poor." <i>Journal of Economic Perspectives</i> 31(4): 145–162.</li>
<li>Canice Prendergast. 2022. "The Allocation of Food to Food Banks". <i>Journal of Political Economy</i>.</li></ul>
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