Introduction

Adopting human rights based approach; Food Bank Nations disputes both the effectiveness and moral legitimacy of this publicly unaccountable food banking and casualty treatment model of feeding hungry people in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development member states. Whilst recognizing the moral imperative to feed hungry people Food Bank Nations challenges the effectiveness, sustainability and moral legitimacy of globally entrenched corporate food banking as the primary response to rich world food poverty. Heavily dependent on Big Food for the sourcing of surplus and wasted food to feed hungry people, they are reliant on the free labour and tireless giving of volunteers doing their bit to take the bite out of poverty and austerity. Politically food production and supply is central to feeding the world and as such to global and national debates about food policy within and between rich and poor countries alike raising issues and consequences for agriculture, the environment, health and trade.