8 schools in New Haven, Connecticut have added a third meal for students who might otherwise go hungry after school. The New Haven Food Policy Council requested that the district to offer three meals a day. Now the administration is trying to expand the number of schools where kids won’t go home hungry in the afternoon.
Author: Sarah Polaski
Food security project to benefit 3512 people
THE Save the Children (SC) Fiji Knowledge and Action in Agriculture and Food Security (KANA) project is expected to benefit as many as 3512 people living in Ra and Koro Island. The project aims to develop commercial and subsistence agriculture that is resilient and reliable, provided food security and family income.
World Food Programme Lauds Pakistan For Improving Food Security
The United Nation World Food Programme in its recent report has said that Pakistan has made significant progress over the past decades and brought food security and nutrition to a more prominent place since 2010.
Flour Power: Turkmenistan Mulling ‘Surplus Confiscation’ Amid Shortage
Households that authorities deem have more flour than they require face punishment from authorities as the scarcity of flour in Turkmenistan adds to growing food prices and shortages of basic foods, a major problem facing the country over the past two years.
Rising Temperatures, Terrorism Threaten Cameroon’s Food Security
Cameroon says its northern border with Nigeria and Chad and most of the Lake Chad basin face a food crisis because of desertification and the Boko Haram conflict that stopped farmers from doing their work.
‘Price of conflict is too high’: hunger at crisis levels in eight countries
War driving up acute food insecurity on a vast scale, report finds, with Yemen, South Sudan and Syria worst affected
Virginia creates fund to eliminate ‘food deserts’ in the state
The goal of the Virginia Grocery Investment Fund would be to financially motivate supermarkets to open up or renovate stores in the state’s underserved communities. Virginia will invest $7.5 million for the program, which is similar to those in other states.
Hunger in the lucky country – charities step in where government fails
The non-profit organization Foodbank released its report ‘Fighting Hunger in Australia’ this month. The survey revealed that 3.6 million Australians have experienced food insecurity at least once in the last 12 months. Three in five of those people experience food insecurity at least once a month.
Food aid 2018: the never-ending crisis
This special IRIN report focuses on those who are most food insecure – those on the frontline of humanitarian emergencies who don’t know where their next meal is coming from.
New Oakland museum exhibit spotlights local urban farmers
A new exhibit at the Oakland Museum of California aims to grow visitors’ knowledge of how, where and why food is grown in the city. “Take Root: Oakland Grows Food” highlights Oakland urban farmers and explains the challenges they face and motivations for doing what they do.
