World hunger is on the rise for the third consecutive year after decades of decline, a new United Nations (UN) report says. The climate crisis ranks alongside conflict as the top cause of food shortages that force more than 821 million people worldwide to experience chronic hunger. That number includes more than 150 million children whose growth is stunted due to a lack of food.
Author: Sarah Polaski
To Survive in a Wetter World, Raise Ducks, Not Chickens
Farmers in Bangladesh are raising ducks as part of an effort to adapt to climate change.
New UN State of Food Security report released
The United Nations just released the 2019 State of Food Security report.
Community garden blossoms on UMA Bangor campus
Folks from the Peace and Justice Center of Eastern Maine have teamed up with students and faculty at UMA Bangor on a community garden which aims to provide fresh produce to six area food pantries, shelters, and other food security programs.
Saturday outreach aims to increase food security, spread JOY
A new Saturday meal program at Greenville, North Carolina’s nonprofit soup kitchen will help supplement meals provided to area youth during the week, organizers said at a kick-off event for the program.
The climate crisis is inherently unfair. These 9 countries will get hit especially hard as the globe heats up.
Nine countries are already experiencing severe effects from climate change, which can lead to food insecurity and hunger
When summer means hunger, mobile food pantries help close the gap
Starbucks Foundation and Feeding America have teamed up with food banks to help fill the summer meal gap with mobile food pantries.
American Samoa governor Lolo requests the USDA to ‘expedite’ release of $18M for nutrition assistance
Pago Pago, AMERICAN SAMOA — With “financial and emotional strain” placed on local farmers since last year’s devastating Tropical Storm Gita, Gov. Lolo Matalasi Moliga has requested the US Agriculture Departure to “expedite” release of the $18 million earmarked for American Samoa under federal legislation signed into law early last month.
How Hydroponic School Gardens Can Cultivate Food Justice, Year-Round
Teens for Food Justice, a 6-year-old nonprofit organization has worked with community partners to train students at Brownsville Collaborative and two other schools in low-income neighborhoods in New York City to become savvy urban farmers and consumers.
Who are the world’s food insecure? Identifying the risk factors of food insecurity around the world
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) reports on FAO’s new Food Insecurity Experience Scale, which is modeled on ERS’s U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module.
