Our project examined the severity of food insecurity, the interrelatedness of social determinants of health, and how physicians and a local branch of a national non-profit are addressing food insecurity. Through surveying food bank clientele, our outcomes highlight the community health needs of the...
byCrystal RankinSeptember 19, 2024 Nearly 90 million U.S. households include pets, and PetSmart Charities® estimates that 30 million pets live in homes facing food insecurity. On Pet Hunger Awareness Day® (Sept. 24), PetSmart Charities … ...
The results of the study showed no significant improvement in the expected indicators, such as frequency of home gardening, nutritional knowledge, dietary diversity, women’s empowerment, and household food insecurity status among women covered by the program (p > 0.05). The structural equation...
Greenville County are most affected by food insecurity so that food resources can be deployed where they are most needed. For this reason, a food insecurity index was created using census data to map which census tracts in the county are most likely to be food insecure based on five risk ...
The food bank supports 23 counties from the Canadian border to Rockland County, just north of New York City. In this territory, 1 in 10 people, including 1 in 7 children, face food insecurity. Sourcing culturally diverse, fresh produce has always presented a significant challenge due to the ...
The former is an urban farm intended to address food diversity and insecurity highlighting produce from the Philippines like kang kong and bittermelon. The latter features kamayan meals, dinners, and picnic baskets featuring Filipino food enhanced with the ingredients Amboy grows. Vencio says he ...
The topic of food insecurity is personal for so many of us. Both of my parents were school teachers in Pulaski County, Kentucky, a county that has a21.3 percent food insecurity rate for children—the same rate of childhood hunger as where I live now in Washington, DC. According to theUni...
Food banks redistribute food donations that would otherwise be lost for consumption by humans to people in need. As such, food banks play an important role both in addressing food insecurity for people at risk of poverty or social exclusion and in the prevention of food waste and its related ...
Virginia's FeedVA initiative calculates and mapsdata for food insecurity, but only as low as the county level. Food access or security data at a more granular level remain unavailable. In this map, food insecurity is therefore represented byFood Equity Zones. ...
Feeding South Dakota, the only statewide food bank that serves the 900,000 people in the state’s 66 counties, has seen an influx of working families facing food insecurity as inflation andhigh fuel costsmake it even more difficult for food banks to keep up with demand. "We've...