Daily Table opened its doors Thursday with shelves full of surplus and aging food. The nonprofit grocery store is in the low-to-middle income Boston neighborhood of Dorchester. It’s selling canned vegetables two for $1 and a dozen eggs for 99 cents. Potatoes are 49 cents a pound. Bananas are 29 cents a pound.
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What it really means to rely on food stamps and welfare
Public dependence isn’t a permanent condition, although we often talk about people in need of government aid as if they constitute some kind of fixed class — as if welfare recipients have always needed welfare, as if the families on food stamps today are exactly the same ones on food stamps a decade ago
Thousands flee violent upsurge in northern Mali
A spike in violence in northern Mali has driven the number of people displaced in the country above 100,000, many of them urgently needing food, water and shelter as time runs out before the rainy season begins.
U.N. reports about 200 million fewer hungry people than in 1990
The number of hungry people globally has declined from about one billion 25 years ago to about 795 million today, or about one person out of every nine, despite a surge in population growth, the United Nations reported Wednesday.
Laissez faire water laws threaten family farming in Chile
Family farmers in Chile are pushing for the reinstatement of water as a public good, to at least partially solve the shortages caused by the privatisation of water rights by the military dictatorship in 1981.
Latin America’s relative success in fighting hunger
The Latin American and Caribbean region is the first in the world to reach the two global targets for reducing hunger. Nevertheless, more than 34 million people still go hungry.
Why entrepreneurs ae suddenly finding the beauty in ugly produce
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Food worries widen in Mauritania
Hundreds of thousands of Mauritanians are struggling to feed themselves as they fall victim to the effects of climate change.
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria seeks input into 2017-21 strategy
Salvadorans flock to honor beloved Archbishop on path to sainthood
SAN SALVADOR — Tens of thousands of people filled the streets of El Salvador’s capital on Saturday to celebrate the beatification of Óscar Romero, an archbishop who walked with his people in poverty and was killed after denouncing it.
