Food insecurity is not only linked with, but directly causes symptoms of anxiety and depression, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS Mental Health. Melissa Bateson of ...

West Virginia’s largest food bank is expressing concern about the cancellation of a longstanding annual food insecurity survey that is used to help determine levels of need. The Household Annual Food ...

Last month, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that they will not collect food insecurity data for 2025. The timing could not be worse. Just as cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance ...

Poor nutrition in the US causes more than 600,000 deaths and an estimated $1.1 trillion in health care spending and lost productivity annually, as well as profound health disparities. Food Is Medicine ...

Seth A. Berkowitz ([email protected]), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. Hilary K. Seligman, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California.

Providing food-insecure families with produce vouchers and nutritional education on planning, preparing, and eating healthy food led to improved household food security compared with providing only ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dianne Plummer is an Energy Consultant and Certified Energy Manager. As the world celebrates International Day of Forests on March ...

Food insecurity is a persistent challenge in Africa. The number of people that are food insecure increased by 60 percent between 2014 and 2023. On the African continent, food supply chains are long ...

U.S. government investments in global food security have traditionally received strong bipartisan support from policymakers, either explicitly or implicitly, on moral, economic, and national security ...