In the UK, children are returning to school ‘looking visibly less well nourished’ according to teachers. Of 657 secondary school teachers surveyed, nearly half confirmed children in their school had experienced holiday hunger.
Author: Sarah Polaski
For Many College Students, Hunger ‘Makes It Hard To Focus’
As students enter college this fall, many will hunger for more than knowledge. Up to half of college students in recent published studies say they either are not getting enough to eat or are worried about it. This food insecurity is most prevalent at community colleges, but it’s common at public and private four-year schools as well.
‘Severe decline in bee species threatens food security worldwide’
At a time when many managed and wild-bee species are in a severe decline that threatens food security, researchers from Athlone Institute of Technology (AIT) and Maynooth University have joined forces with the University of Minnesota, in the US, to tackle diseases affecting pollinators.
Generosity Feeds, local volunteers aim to combat high hunger rate
With 94 percent of children in the St. Louis area struggling with hunger, one of the highest rates in the country, volunteers from Generosity Feeds arrived to help lower that statistic. The group’s goal was to pack 10,000 non-perishable meals in two hours Saturday morning.
Farmers’ Market SNAP Crisis Gets ‘Emergency Support,’ But No Long-term Fix
A nonprofit group will use its own funds to temporarily extend a payment platform that allows SNAP recipients to buy food at thousands of farmers’ markets across the country. In a statement, the National Association of Farmers Market Nutrition Programs announced that it can fund the system for 30 days. The new deadline to fix a looming crisis will come at the end of August.
China’s food security threatened by drastic drop in crop varieties
Over 70 percent of food crop varieties has disappeared in six regions in China, including Central China’s Hubei and Hunan provinces, which agricultural experts fear may threaten China’s food security.
The native food crop varieties in 375 counties of six provinces and cities have shrunk from 11,590 in 1956 to 3,271 in 2014, according to a national food crops meeting on Wednesday in Changsha, capital city of Hunan Province, the Science and Technology Daily reported Thursday.
Agriculture Minister Says Plant Health Fundamental to Food Security
Jamaica’s Minister of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries, Hon. Audley Shaw, says that plant health is a fundamental pillar to achieving the region’s food security and economic growth. He recently called on regional Plant Health Directors to identify new strategies aimed at safeguarding the region’s agriculture and plant health.
Republic of Marshall Islands strengthens food security measures ahead of future droughts
Communities in the remote, drought prone, northern atolls of the Republic of Marshall Islands (RMI) are trialling new food security measures to increase the availability of local food crops, expand the use of drought resistant crop varieties, improve soil management practices, and establish nurseries. The project is a response to the severe 2015-2016 El Niño drought, and will enhance the resilience of communities to potential shocks and insecurities resulting from future droughts.
How Luxury Hotels And Restaurants In Developing Countries Fight Food Waste
The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization estimates that nearly a quarter of food purchases in hotels and restaurants are simply thrown away. While food waste is a hot topic in the U.S., it’s a particular challenge in low-income nations where food is sometimes a scarce resource to begin with. Some resorts are doing their part to address it — even when governmental regulations and a general lack of awareness make that difficult.
Hunger Task Force runs its own farm
In Milwaukee County Wisconsin, Hunger Task Force’s farm is producing about a half-million pounds of fruits and vegetables each year. It is a crop worth nearly a million dollars, says Matt King, who is the Hunger Task Force’s farm director, and it is distributed, without cost, to soup kitchens, shelters, food pantries and low-income senior facilities in the Task Force network.
