hunger
Grain for the world
Russia’s actions are threatening millions of African people with starvation. The US can help.
SNAP under siege
Federal debt default has been averted. The price is more restrictions on a critical program that feeds hungry Americans.
A rural church, a small budget, and a giant community meal
Feeding bodies and souls at Everyone’s Table
The recent increase in SNAP benefits was long overdue
Food stamps may be the most effective tool we have for fighting domestic poverty.
Ending food insecurity will take more than community fridges
It’s beautiful when people come together to protect their hungry neighbors. It’s appalling that they have to.
In West Virginia, the teachers’ strike made new space for Eucharistic living
A church on my street fed food-insecure kids while schools were closed. The work of justice flowed outward from the table.
The hunger that no meal satisfies
Isaiah 55 gives voice to the longing we can't quite name.
by Samuel Wells
Can hunger end?
The binding constraint on progress against hunger and malnutrition is weak political commitment.
Waste not, hunger not: Daily Table sells fresh meals cheap
Forty percent of the food produced in the U.S. ends up in landfills. Meanwhile, people are hungry. Daily Table tries to address both problems.
by Amy Frykholm
Food demand vs. food need
A recent report from PLOS One finds that growth in global agricultural yield is not projected to keep up with growth in demand. Brad Plumer picked it up, and someone gave his post this blog-snappy headline: "This terrifying chart shows we're not growing enough food to feed the world."
Well, not exactly.
Cutting good welfare and preserving bad
The money in the farm bill is dominated by food stamps. The debate over it is dominated by everything else. But debate or no debate, the Senate wants to cut food stamps a little, the House wants to cut them a lot more, and now GOP Rep. Mike Conaway of Texas wants to bring House Democrats around to the farm bill by making sure food stamps will get slashed regardless.
Soup night at the bar: The rules are simple
Staring down the barrel of another Chicago winter at age 40, I was a little freaked. Then I started to serve soup.
by Martha Bayne
Hungry farmers: The challenges of African agriculture
The developed world's negligence has produced one of Africa's cruelest ironies: its farmers are its hungriest people.
by Roger Thurow
Hunger is political: Food banks can’t do it all
Americans do a good job of helping people in need directly, as we should. But there is another way to help people in need: citizen activism.
Criminal negligence: The scourge of world hunger
I should have seen my road to Damascus moment approaching. I’d been warned.