Community Hunger Response-Ability

This study examines alterity in cross-sector hunger partnerships, specifically problematising the absence of community within community- focused initiatives. Informed by the phenomenology of the Other and adopting an emancipatory praxis methodology, the study will design a learning partnership with Others, whereby hunger solutions are designed by the community for the community. Contributing to TCR scholarship on food wellbeing and hunger, the study focuses on the benefits of community co-collaboration for policy formulation. Learning partnerships facilitate an original approach to framing social problems and initiate a mindset of innovation within communities. Experiences of alterity are therefore minimised as communities co-design the hunger solutions that will be more relevant and more sustainable to their well-being, enabling policy agendas to be assessed and prioritised more effectively.