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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 proce...
This App Delivers Leftover Food To The Hungry, Instead Of To The Trash
Goodr has created an ap that has diverted nearly a million pounds of food in Atlanta from landfills–and into kitchens. Goodr is a food-waste management company that redirects surplus food from businesses to nonprofits that can share it with those who are food insecure....
Want to save the world from hunger? Start by not wasting food, shoppers told
The World Food Programme has launched a social media movement, #RecipeforDisaster, with the aim of making the public in the UK more conscious of the food waste they generate....
One Third of Food Lost, Wasted – Enough to Feed All Hungry People
Believe it or not, the way to eradicate hunger from the face of the Earth is as feasible as it is handy. In fact, the current loss and waste of one-third of all food produced for human consumption would be just enough to feed the nearly one billion people who go to bed hungry every single night. ...
Hunger Fighters Interview: Jim Levinson
Biographic Snapshot: Jim Levinson served as Director of the International Nutrition Planning Program at MIT, the International Food and Nutrition Center at Tufts, and the Office of Nutrition for United States Agency for International Development (USAID) in Washington, DC. He has worked exten...
Meals on Wheels Client Asks Congress to #SaveLunch For Millions of At-Risk Seniors
With Congress in the midst of its annual appropriations debate, Meals on Wheels America launched a video vignette featuring Carol – a real Meals on Wheels client living in Whitehall Township, PA – in an effort to influence the important funding decisions that put millions of seniors at risk. Car...
Fleeing Boko Haram, Thousands Cling to a Road to Nowhere
More than 130,000 people have amassed along this desert highway outside Diffa, Niger — National Route 1. They now call its barren, sandy shoulders home....
Foreign Food-Aid for School Kids Among Cuts Proposed for USDA
An international school food-aid program backed by former Democratic Senator George McGovern and Republican Senator Bob Dole would end under President Donald Trump’s budget blueprint, with the White House arguing its success isn’t proven. The McGovern-Dole Food for Education program, created ...
Early warning, early action: The innovations changing food crisis management
There are many challenges to ending hunger and famine, but food security practitioners are developing innovative solutions that enable earlier and more evidence-based responses to food crises, and help communities build resilience to climate change and disasters....
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