Operating with only a shoestring budget, a local chapter of Food Not Bombs provides a working model for communities around the nation to help fight hunger and reduce the damaging effects of income inequality.
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Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions (video)
In Oregon alone, 20 regional food banks, and 950 local agencies are involved in distributing food to those in need. And, it’s not nearly enough. 25% of the state’s populace are receiving food stamps, and many of those are children.
Rethinking the Problem of Food Waste (video)
Maybe we can’t solve intractable problems of hunger and food insecurity in America, but we certainly could do much more to help to improve the lives of many that would also benefit society as a whole.
Urban Gleaners: Reducing Hunger (video)
For Tracy Oseran, to distribute food that would otherwise be thrown out — reducing food waste and reducing hunger.
Countdown to World Food Day
When you sit down to a meal, do you ever wonder where the ingredients come from?
Stockbox Grocers Strive to Fill Food Deserts
September 16, 2011 Many neighborhoods throughout urban and rural America do not have access to fresh food and day-to-day living essentials within walking or a short driving distance. Many of these areas are known to be a food desert. Over 23 million people live in food deserts. An idea to help bring food to some […]
Slow Food USA Invites You to Take the $5 Challenge
Many of us may have succumbed over the years to fast food – it’s cheap and it’s, well, fast! But there are alternatives…
The Unconventional Harvest: Melstone, Montana—Population 136
In a land where people wore jeans, boots, and rancher hats all year round – I stuck out like a sore thumb. And I didn’t give a damn. 10 miles east of Melstone, Montana, a stiff wind barreled into my path. The air was hot – yet it felt fantastic. Excerpt 11.
Oregon Food Bank: Hunger & Food Insecurity In Epic Proportions-2 (video)
We would do well to listen to what Rachel Bristol, longtime CEO of the Portland Food Bank has to say on the subject of poverty and food insecurity in the U.S.
