With the demise of the USDA's household food security report, should more food banks be collecting data on food insecurity?

Vermont Foodbank is getting more strategic in how it makes grants to partner agencies, by directing funds toward specific ...

Early in March, food banks found out that $500 million for LFPA, a popular federal program that gives them money to buy food from local farms and ranchers, would go away. Toward the end of the month, ...

Food banks have long emphasized better nutrition in the food they distribute. Now, serious structural changes are making elevated nutritional quality a lasting characteristic of food banking. The most ...

After decades of relying on donated food, food banks are starting to place more emphasis on purchasing food. The trend appears to be an outgrowth of Covid, which forced food banks to purchase food by ...

The standard answer to the question of how many food banks there are is 200, but actually there are many more. Food Bank News counts at least 371. [For our latest information on the full scope of the ...

In 2022, when a California law went into effect requiring restaurants and other food producers to donate their surplus edible food rather than send it to landfills, no one knew what sort of impact the ...

GUEST OPINION BY DR. MARK BROWN, CEO OF WEST HOUSTON ASSISTANCE MINISTRIES – As of March 4, the U.S. has imposed a 25% tariff on nearly all goods imported from Mexico and Canada, and an additional 10% ...

Hunger relief advocates are starting to move beyond their dismay that the USDA will no longer be publishing its annual survey tracking food insecurity, and are starting to consider the various tools ...

Our Tableau-driven dashboard of the largest 300 food banks in America is interactive and searchable, while offering many different perspectives of the data. By introducing the dashboard, we hope to ...

For two years in a row after the pandemic, the amount of revenue generated by the top 300 food banks remained at about $16 billion, following a pandemic-era high of nearly $19 billion. It seemed ...

At first glance, there does not seem to be a lot of connection between food insecurity and poetry. Food insecurity is a practical problem that demands practical solutions, be they charitable food ...