Food banks have been an important tool in addressing food insecurity during the pandemic, but they alone aren’t enough to solve the problem—to do that, we need to focus on the root causes of hunger.
That’s the argument Katie Martin makes in her new book, Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries. She joins us on the show to talk about equitable, long-term solutions to food access in America.
Katie Martin is executive director of the Foodshare Institute for Hunger Research & Solutions and the author of Reinventing Food Banks and Pantries: New Tools to End Hunger (Island Press, 2021).
