Every year, approximately 80 million tons of food is wasted in the United States — roughly 40% of all food produced. At the same time, 44 million Americans experience food insecurity. These two facts exist in grotesque proximity, and the…
A food desert is defined by the USDA as a low-income area where a substantial portion of residents lives more than one mile from a supermarket in an urban area, or more than 10 miles in a rural area. By…
The cycle of poverty is a term used to describe the self-reinforcing pattern through which poverty in one generation creates conditions that make poverty more likely in the next. It is driven by interconnected factors: limited educational opportunity, poor health,…
Food insecurity is one of those terms that appears frequently in policy reports and nonprofit communications but is rarely explained in a way that helps people recognise it in their own lives or their communities. It is not simply ‘being…
