Sweet Charity, revisited: Organizational responses to food insecurity in Hamilton and Toronto, Canada

Critical Social Policy

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 427-450

  Wakefield, Sarah ^a   Fleming, Julie ^b   Klassen, Carla ^c   Skinner, Ana ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^b Circle Organic Community Farm ^*  (Canada)

^c Social Planning and Research Council of Hamilton   (Canada)

^d Laidlaw Foundation   (Canada)

Author keywords

community food security; emergency food; food banks; food security; social service provision

Indexed keywords

FOOD PRODUCTION; FOOD PROVISIONING; FOOD SECURITY; MODELING; ORGANIZATIONAL FRAMEWORK; SERVICE PROVISION;

CANADA; HAMILTON [ONTARIO]; ONTARIO [CANADA]; TORONTO;

EID: 84880800201     PISSN: 02610183     EISSN: 1461703X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0261018312458487     Document Type: Article

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