The textbook offers students of social work an insight into the topic of hunger or what food poverty is. In many social pedagogical fields of action, responsibility for the nutrition of the addressees is taken on a daily basis and in many cases the addressees have experienced hunger. The introduction shows that hunger or food poverty must be reflected upon as a fundamental condition of socio-educational thinking and action and provides a competent framework for this.

Dr Christine Meyer is Professor of Social Work in the Life Course at the University of Vechta.