Comparison between Chinese and American Practices in Food Banking System

DOI

10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.026How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Food Bank; Food Security; Inequalities; Fiscal Policies; Public Initiatives

Abstract

Food banks are non-profitable institutions that help fight against starvation and social inequalities. As food banks thrive around the globe, especially in America, the Chinese food banking system is still primitive and faulty. Sharing economy is a genre of reallocation of resources, and secondary allocation alleviates the gap of wealth, ensuring sustainable development. As a result, sharing economy has been long established and improved in many countries. The food bank, as a major locomotive of sharing economy, is an “invisible hand” in the community, transferring voluntary donations from food surplus to food insecure populations, utilizing food resources and propagating humanity of sharing. Since inefficiency in the Chinese long-promoting sharing economy still exists and accessibility to food is still inefficient, the improvement of the Chinese food banking system is in urgency. Chinese food banks, as illustrated by scholar Xu to be stagnated by “suffocated popularization, low acceptance”, by scholar Liu to have “people’s doubt of food insecurity, even after volunteers’ foretaste”, meets gigantic developing hindrances. As the Chinese government and the people realize the advantages of reallocation by food banks, the various troubles need to be remedied as soon as possible. The writer tries to generalize all the obstacles in Chinese food bank development, and extracts merits in American food banking system, due to their long-term trials and errors and positive outcomes, to propose possible resolutions. In this paper, the advantages, including security, contributions to alleviating inequalities, of the successful American food banking system are analyzed and compared to the Chinese practices in pursuit of equal food distribution. In the end, several suggestions, from political, individual, social aspects, will be given to Chinese food bank industry. Research methods, including the horizontal comparison between the food banking system in China and America, investigation of domestic initiatives and awareness of food banks, will be utilized to ensure the validity of data analysis.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Yizhe Yang
PY  - 2022
DA  - 2022/04/29
TI  - Comparison between Chinese and American Practices in Food Banking System
BT  - Proceedings of the 2022 7th International Conference on Social Sciences and Economic Development (ICSSED 2022)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 147
EP  - 156
SN  - 2352-5428
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DO  - 10.2991/aebmr.k.220405.026
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