Editing Hunger (section)

===Local===
==== Food bank ====

A [[food bank]] (or foodbank) is a non-profit, charitable organization that aids in the distribution of food to those who have difficulty purchasing enough to avoid hunger. Food banks tend to run on different operating models depending on where they are located. In the U.S., Australia, and to some extent in Canada, foodbanks tend to perform a warehouse type function, storing and delivering food to front line food orgs, but not giving it directly to hungry peoples themselves. In much of Europe and elsewhere, food banks operate on the ''front line'' model, where they hand out parcels of uncooked food direct to the hungry, typically giving them enough for several meals which they can eat in their homes. In the U.S and Australia, establishments that hand out uncooked food to individual people are instead called ''food pantries'', ''food shelves'' or ''food closets'.<ref>{{cite book | last=Riches | first=G. | title=Food Banks and the Welfare Crisis | publisher=James Lorimer Limited, Publishers | year=1986 | isbn=978-0-88810-363-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BW9CEBIslSQC&pg=PA25 | access-date=19 December 2018 | pages=25, ''passim'', see esp. "Models of Food Banks" | archive-date=12 January 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230112203145/https://books.google.com/books?id=BW9CEBIslSQC&pg=PA25 | url-status=live }}</ref>

In [[Less Developed Countries]], there are charity-run food banks that operate on a semi-commercial system that differs from both the more common "warehouse" and "frontline" models. In some rural [[Least developed country|LDCs]] such as Malawi, food is often relatively cheap and plentiful for the first few months after the harvest, but then becomes more and more expensive. Food banks in those areas can buy large amounts of food shortly after the harvest, and then as food prices start to rise, they sell it back to local people throughout the year at well below market prices. Such food banks will sometimes also act as centers to provide small holders and subsistence farmers with various forms of support.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |title=''The hunger project'', overview for Malawi |publisher=Thp.org |access-date=25 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140724042611/http://www.thp.org/where_we_work/africa/malawi/overview |archive-date=24 July 2014 }}</ref>

==== Soup kitchen ====
[[File:MontrealSoupKitchen1931.jpg|thumb|A soup kitchen in [[Montreal, Quebec]], Canada in 1931]]
A [[soup kitchen]], '''meal center,''' or '''food kitchen''' is a place where [[food]] is offered to the hungry for free or at a below market [[price]]. Frequently located in lower-income neighborhoods, they are often staffed by [[Volunteering|volunteer]] organizations, such as [[Church body|church]] or community groups. Soup kitchens sometimes obtain food from a [[food bank]] for free or at a low price, because they are considered a [[Charitable organization|charity]], which makes it easier for them to feed the many people who require their services.

====Others====
Local establishments calling themselves "food banks" or "soup kitchens" are often run either by Christian churches or less frequently by secular civil society groups. Other religions carry out similar hunger relief efforts, though sometimes with slightly different methods. For example, in the Sikh tradition of [[Langar (Sikhism)|Langar]], food is served to the hungry direct from Sikh temples. There are exceptions to this, for example in the UK Sikhs run some of the food banks, as well as giving out food direct from their [[Gurdwara]]s.<ref>{{cite book | last=  Fieldhouse| first=Paul | title=Food, Feasts, and Faith: An Encyclopedia of Food Culture in World Religions  | publisher=[[ABC-CLIO]] | year=2017 | isbn=978-1-61069-411-7 | pages=97–102 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web
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|title=From the temple to the street: how Sikh kitchens are becoming the new food banks
|publisher=[[The Conversation (website)|The Conversation]]
|date=22 July 2015
|access-date=3 January 2019
|archive-date=12 July 2019
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190712141215/https://theconversation.com/from-the-temple-to-the-street-how-sikh-kitchens-are-becoming-the-new-food-banks-44611
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