United States

Media reporting on migration rarely includes voices of migrants and misses connection to food security, new research reveals

by Hunger Notes October 26, 2014

(October 25, 2014) News coverage of two of the world’s biggest migration stories in recent months rarely included the voices and stories of migrants themselves, according to a report funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD).Those missing voices could be sounding an alar...

The bottom 90 percent are poorer today than they were in 1987

by Matt O'Brien Washington Post October 22, 2014

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Report: 21 US cities restrict sharing food with homeless people

by Deepashri Varadharajan Al Jazeera October 20, 2014

In the United States, 21 cities have restricted sharing food with homeless people through legislation or community pressure since January 2013, and about 10 other cities are in the process of doing so, the National Coalition for the Homeless (NCH) said in a report released Monday....

Iowa’s role in feeding China

by Des Moines Register October 16, 2014

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Family farms produce 80 percent of world’s food, speculators seek land

by Chris Arsenault Reuters October 16, 2014

ROME (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite renewed interest in industrial agriculture by investment banks and sovereign wealth funds, more than 80 percent of the world's food is still produced by family farmers, according to new U.N. research published on Thursday....

Hondurans flee violence, then are deported by US to face more, Human Rights Watch charges

by Pamela Constable Washington Post October 16, 2014

Adults who flee gang violence in Honduras and reach the U.S. border illegally are being swiftly screened and deported back to dangerous conditions without adequate opportunity to explain why they fear being sent home, the advocacy group Human Rights Watch charged in a report released early Thursday....

Pentagon signals security risks of climate change: terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages

by Coral Davenport New York Times October 13, 2014

WASHINGTON — The Pentagon on Monday released a report asserting decisively that climate change poses an immediate threat to national security, with increased risks from terrorism, infectious disease, global poverty and food shortages. It also predicted rising demand for military disaster responses...

Bread for the World releases hunger and poverty fact sheets for each state

by Bread for the World October 11, 2014

A one-page fact sheet for each state plus Washington, D.C., providing these indicators of hunger and poverty:the proportion of households in the state that struggle to put food on the table...

How school lunch became the latest political batttleground

by Nicholas Confessore New York Times October 7, 2014

The lunch ladies loved Marshall Matz. For more than 30 years, he worked the halls and back rooms of Washington for the 55,000 dues-paying members of the School Nutrition Association, the men and still mostly women who run America’s school-lunch programs. They weren’t his firm’s biggest clients...

14.3 percent of US households were food insecure in 2013; percentage down slightly from 2011

by Alisha Colman-Jensen Economic Research Service, USDA October 3, 2014

USDA’s latest report on food insecurity in America shows that the prevalence of food insecurity is down from a high of 14.9 percent of U.S. households in 2011 to 14.3 percent in 2013. This annual report takes a look at the number and types of households that had difficulty at some time during the ...

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