ABSTRACT
The global spread of US style food banking to the rich Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) world has furthered the institutionalization of food charity and the now taken for granted entrenchment of food safety nets dependent upon wasted and surplus food. From organizational and delivery perspectives what does this mean in practice? A useful way of addressing this question is considering two models of food banking adopted in the UK. Whilst only a relative late arrival in the food bank nations club, the UK boasts two national food bank organizations: FareShare, a member of European Federation of Food Banks (FEBA) and the Global Foodbanking Network and The Trussell Trust. Portugal, Germany, Poland, Greece and Finland and Austria, with Portugal, Germany and Greece forming national associations and all with the exception of Finland and Germany becoming members of FEBA.
