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Hunger: a damning reality across the UK
ANGELA MOOHAN reports from an emergency food summit meeting to address the hunger crisis
SOLIDARITY: The Kotadiya family in the 'Give Back Express' set up by Tesco, FareShare and the Trussell Trust that allowing customers to choose and pay for items most needed by foodbanks

THIS winter more and more of our fellow citizens will go hungry. In Scotland and across the UK people who have never suffered from food insecurity before will, for the first time, not have enough food to feed themselves and their families.

This is a very real and immediate human rights crisis that needs a very real and immediate response.

Last Friday, The Larder hosted a National Emergency Food Summit. We issued an open invitation to statutory and non statutory organisations, voluntary and community groups, politicians, trade unions, academics and individuals, from across Scotland, to come together in an effort to find a collective way forward to put food into people’s bellies this winter.

  • A demand that no-one goes hungry this winter.
  • Recognition that this is a human rights emergency that requires a human rights response and the right to food should be at the heart of that response.
  • That legislative change is required now to enshrine the right to good food in Scots law.
  • That national and local government must respond in the same way as they did during the Covid pandemic.
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