In Dayton, a community-owned and operated grocery store will set up shop in the heart of one of Ohio’s largest food deserts.
Author: Sarah Polaski
Fighting the ‘white cancer’ threatening global food security
Researchers have made a ‘game changing’ shift in our understanding of how plants succumb to high levels of salt in agricultural soils.
Games boost student nutrition in Nigerian schools
Researchers tested out a game called Nutrido to see if it would help Nigerian students improve their food choices.
Video: South Sudan’s hunger season is peaking
July marks the peak of South Sudan’s hunger season – that’s the period between the depletion of food stocks and the next harvest. Seven years into its independence, a humanitarian crisis is leaving half of the country’s population starving.
Video: food bank to grow hundreds of fish yearly to feed the hungry
In Pennsylvania, a local food bank is taking several pallet tanks, and converting them into a place to grow 480 fish a year and more than 2,800 pounds of greens to give to people in need. The waste from the fish will be used as fertilizer to help the greens grow. This will all take place in four large, soon-to-be repurposed shipping containers.
Eight states sound alarm over Sahel hunger
Eight West African states have called for emergency aid for four countries in the Sahel facing food shortages as a result of jihadist violence. Agriculture ministers from the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), at a meeting in the Nigerien capital of Niamey on Monday, said around 3.5 million people in Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and Senegal were suffering from “food insecurity.”
Some food stamp recipients may soon lose access to farmers market benefits
Across the US, recipients of USDA’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) – sometimes referred to as food stamps – are able to get more by shopping at farmers markets, where the value of their benefits is matched or supplemented by other funds. But a technical issue with the payment processor may eliminate this option, leaving low-income Americans with less access to fresh healthy foods.
Roti Bank: where leftovers satiate hunger of the poor
In India, a country where millions of people go hungry every day, a retired IPS officer has come up with an initiative to feed the needy. The initiative, called ‘Roti Bank’, collects leftovers from restaurants, clubs and parties in Mumbai, stores it in vans and distributes it to the poor before the food gets stale.
Struggling Farmers Turn Excess Milk Into Cheese And Yogurt For The Hungry
Philabundance, a Pennsylvania nonprofit that turns food waste into donations is working with dairy farmers to turn excess milk into cheese and yogurt for the hungry.
Synthesis of impact evaluations of the World Food Programme’s nutrition interventions in humanitarian settings in the Sahel – Working Paper 31, March 2018
The International Initiative for Impact Evaluation (3ie) reviewed World Food Programme’s nutrition initiatives in the Sahel. Acute malnutrition in the Sahel affects an estimated six million children under five years, of whom about 1.4 million require treatment for severe acute malnutrition.
