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Moreover, as Dickinson acknowledges I Feeding the Crisis i owes an inspirational debt to the work of Poppendieck's I Sweet Charity i and its awareness raising of hunger management by foodbanks and pantries across late-twentieth century America. I Feeding the Crisis i by Maggie Dickinson is the culmination of an ethnographic study undertaken in New York's South Bronx during 2011-13 whilst the author volunteered at a food pantry, and as a welfare advocate in the community. Feeding the crisis: care and abandonment in America's food safety net: Feeding the crisis: care and abandonment in America's food safety net, by Maggie Dickinson, Oakland, California, University of California Press, 2020, 201 pp., $29.95/£24.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-520-30767-4. [Extracted from the article]

With a focus on a North Brooklyn food pantry, Dickinson exposes the nonsensical methods government agencies use to control food access for those most needy. Maggie Dickinson's I Feeding the Crisis: Care and Abandonment in America's Food Safety Net i unravels the politics of hunger in the United States. [Extracted from the article]