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Research report

Below the Breadline: The relentless rise of food poverty in Britain

09/06/2014

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46 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, it is also deeply unequal, and millions of families across the UK are living below the breadline. Oxfam and Church Action on Poverty have calculated that 20,247,042 meals were given to people in food poverty in 2013/14 by the three main food aid providers. […]

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Research report

Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain

30/05/2013

1 documents

20 pages long

Languages: English

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Although the UK is the seventh richest country in the world, many people struggle to afford even the most essential of goods: food. In this briefing, Church Action on Poverty and Oxfam highlight the rise in food poverty in the UK, where over 500,000 are now thought to be reliant on food parcels. Figures from […]

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Research report

Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda

10/10/2011

1 documents

40 pages long

Languages: English

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The Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) is an analytical model that seeks to build on the existing assets and strategies that people living in poverty use to support themselves, and then to identify what needs to change in order for their livelihoods to become more secure and sustainable. The SLA takes as its starting point not […]

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Guidelines and toolkits

The Sustainable Livelihoods Handbook: An asset based approach to poverty

01/11/2009

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52 pages long

Languages: English

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This handbook is intended to introduce community development workers and local activists to the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA), an exciting and innovative means of researching the opportunities for change within our households and communities. The Handbook is also potentially relevant for academics and policy makers who are interested in finding out more about how the […]

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Below the Breadline: The relentless rise of food poverty in Britain

Walking the Breadline: The scandal of food poverty in 21st-century Britain

Community Assets First: The implications of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach for the Coalition agenda

The Sustainable Livelihoods Handbook: An asset based approach to poverty