Role of Food Bank Activities in Assistance for Deprived people

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 15K03985
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Social welfare and social work studies
• Research Institution: Bukkyo University
• Principal Investigator: SATO Junko 佛教大学, 福祉教育開発センター, 講師 (80329995)
• Co-Investigator(Renkei-kenkyūsha): KOSEKI Takashi 明治大学, 経営学部, 准教授 (20339568)
• Research Collaborator: KADOSAKI Yohhei 佛教大学, 日本学術振興会, 特別研究員 (10706675) ; UEHARA Yuko 立命館アジア太平洋大学, 国際経営学部, 准教授 (30711478)
• Project Period (FY): 2015-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: フードバンク / 生活困窮者支援 / 包摂的支援

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In this research, we investigated food bank activities in Japan, France Republic, USA, Korea, and revealed the role that food bank activities play in support of daily needy people. Administrative support for Japanese food bank activities is limited, but the number of food banks is increasing. In France, the food bank activity that was born in the late 1980s was incorporated as part of the food support policy for deprived people with assistance from the EU and the government. In the United States, as the public's food-in-security problem emerges, food bank have become popular for the purpose of supplementing the shortage of food support policy. In SouthKorea, food banks have been developed led by the government, but private food bank activities are also seen.

Free Research Field

社会福祉学