ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the overlaps and dissonances between these movements, including the ways conventional food system transgressions into feeding poorer people are growing. It considers a number of issues. The chapter begins with a brief summary of contemporary food inequalities, and the links to poverty. The recent financial crisis with its cuts in job security and welfare spending has significantly impacted upon the sufficiency of household budgets to meet essential needs, although such monitoring has largely been led by research groups. There are a number of ways that alternative food initiatives and movements, including freeganism, can address poverty and exclusion but there is a need that issues of social justice and equity in the food system must be more broadly embraced. The changing nature of food poverty allied to a nutrition transition has to embrace policy solutions beyond a narrow focus on individual behaviour and consumer choice.
