What are examples of food insecurity? Food insecurity can be defined in four different ways depending on a household’s access to food. According to Feeding America, these are the categories ...

Food insecurity among families with children fell in 2021, reversing a spike during the first year of the Covid-19 pandemic, according to a US Department of Agriculture report released Wednesday.

Food insecurity also can make health conditions you already have worse. It can lead to underuse or misuse of medications that cost money. When you skip doses or take less than you should, ...

Food insecurity means a lack of consistent access to nutritious, affordable food. Last year, 1 in 10 households were food insecure, according to the Department of Agriculture.

Food insecurity — not having access to food consistently — can hit older adults especially hard. In fact, for each year that a person over the age of 65 is uncertain about where they will get ...

Food insecurity rates increased much faster in rural areas than urban ones last year, something food policy experts attribute to rising costs of living and roll backs of pandemic-era federal programs.

Food banks across the country say they're seeing more visitors than ever, and inflation is the driving force — and Americans' salaries simply can't keep up.

Katie Fitzgerald, chief operating officer of Feeding America, regarding the increased strain on U.S. food banks due to increasing food prices and supply chain issues. The Alameda County Community ...

People working in food justice help us understand the many definitions of food insecurity. There’s no single definition of "food insecurity," but we asked people working in food justice to help ...

Our recent research shows how food insecurity also matters for reproductive justice: people's ability to have only the children they want and raise them the way they want.