ArticleInternational journal of environmental research and public health2018
The German Food Bank System and Its Users-A Cross-Sectional Study.
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- Impacts of community-level grassroots organizations on household food security during the COVID-19 epidemic period in China.International journal of disaster risk reduction : IJDRR · 2023Article
- Brazilian Food Banks: Overview and Perspectives.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Review
- Impact of a smoking cessation program on smoking prevalence and food security among food pantry users - a study protocol for a pragmatic cluster randomised controlled trial.BMC public health · 2020Article
- Food is medicine: actions to integrate food and nutrition into healthcare.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2020Review
- Creating healthy food pantries by using behavioural economics approaches.Public health nutrition · 2019Article
- Addressing Food and Nutrition Security in Developed Countries.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
- Food Insecurity and Hunger in Rich Countries-It Is Time for Action against Inequality.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2019Article
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Abstract
Although food banks are a well-known resource for low-income people struggling to meet their food needs, they have rarely been investigated on a large scale. This study aims to contribute to the actual debate about the potential and limitations of food banks to decrease the prevalence of food insecurity by providing a representative picture of the German food bank system and its users. Publicly accessible data were used to map residents, public welfare recipients, and food banks. In addition, a comprehensive survey was distributed to all 934 "Tafel" food banks. The results show that nearly all residents and welfare recipients have access to at least one food bank located in the districts in which they reside. Differences in the density of food banks exist between eastern and western Germany. Food banks provide mainly healthy fresh food, but they heavily rely on food donations from local retailers and on volunteer labor. Although changes in the number of user households by income seem to mirror trends in the number of welfare recipients, food bank users appear to represent only a fraction of the food-insecure population in Germany. Food banks might have the potential to improve users' diet and food security, but they are not able to reach all food-insecure residents in Germany.
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