Local Food Projects: The New Philanthropy?

Political Quarterly

Volumn 74, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 57-65

  Dowler, Elizabeth ^a   Caraher, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0141633522     PISSN: 00323179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-923x.00512     Document Type: Review

References (14)

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2. P. McGlone, B. Dobson, E. Dowler and M. Nelson, Food Projects and How They Work, York, York Publishing for Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 1999; M. Caraher and G. Cowburn, A Review of Plans to Promote Healthy Eating, Including the Promotion of Fruit and Vegetables in NHS Regions and Health Action Zones: A Report to the Health Development Agency, London, Health Development Agency, 2001.
3. M. Howard, A. Garnham, G. Fimister and J. Veit-Wilson, Poverty: The Facts, London, Child Poverty Action Group, 2001.
4. E. Dowler and S. Turner with B. Dobson, Poverty Bites: Food, Health and Poor Families, London, Child Poverty Action Group, 2001.
5. E. Dowler, 'Food as a Utility: Guaranteeing Food Security for All', Consumer Policy Review, 1998, pp. 162-8.
6. A. Sen, Poverty and Families: An Essay on Entitlement and Deprivation, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1981, and Inequality Re-examined, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1997.
7. B. Dobson, K. Kellard and D. Talbot, A Recipe for Success? An Evaluation of a Community Food Project. Loughborough University: Centre for Research in Social Policy, 2000.
8. A. Marr, "The Poor and their Money: What Have We Learned?', ODI Poverty Briefing, March 1999. Obtainable from ODI, Portland House, Stag Place, London SW1E 5DP; email publications@odi.org.uk; webpage: http://www.oneworld.org/odi/.
9. For instance, a struggling greengrocer in a deprived ward in the English midlands has an annual turnover of approximately £50,000; of this, about £30,000-35,000 goes on purchases and £5,000 on rent and rates, leaving the (quite enterprising) shop-manager with about £10,000-15,000 to pay her staff and herself; by contrast, the local, reasonably successful community food cooperative serving the whole borough has an annual turnover of £42,000, and relies heavily on voluntary labour.
10. Improving Shopping Access for People Living in Deprived Neighbourhoods, Report of Policy Action Team 13 of the Social Exclusion Unit, London, Department of Health for the Social Exclusion Unit/Cabinet Office, 1999.
11. Five UK food retailers - Sainsbury, Tesco, Safeway, Asda and Gateway - accounted for 70 per cent of the total UK grocery market in 1996/7, and the figure has not changed much since. See Improving Shopping Areas, PAT 13.
12. M. Carley, K. Kirk and S. McIntosh, Retailing, Sustainability and Neighbourhood Regeneration, York, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 2001.
13. D. Lupton, Food, the Body and Self, London, Sage, 1996. See also D. Lupton, 'Consumerism, Commodity, Culture and Health Promotion', Health Promotion International, 1994, pp. 111-18.
14. D. Lupton, Food, the Body and Self, London, Sage, 1996. See also D. Lupton, 'Consumerism, Commodity, Culture and Health Promotion', Health Promotion International, 1994, pp. 111-18.