#Food-security

Marianna Chilton.  The Painful Truth about Hunger in America: Why We Must Unlearn Everything We Think We Know—and Start Again.  MIT Press, 2024. 366 pages. MIT Press asked me to do a back-cover blurb for this book, which I was pleased to do. Marianna Chilton’s uncompromising book cuts to the

I am late getting to this report but am finally ready to take it on. This is the annual report from FAO, which always tries to put as positive a spin on its findings as it can. The press release says: Hunger numbers stubbornly high for three consecutive years as global crises deepen: UN

The USDA has released its annual report on Household Food Security in the United States in 2023. The news is not good. What’s especially tragic is the reversal of the pandemic decline in food insecurity. Pandemic income support and higher SNAP benefits did exactly what they were supposed to. 

It takes a while for USDA to catch up to the data so its most recent report on food insecurity ends with 2021: “Household Food Insecurity Across Race and Ethnicity in the United States, 2016-21.” The highlights: The prevalence of food insecurity ranges from a low of 5.4% for Asian households

Martin Caraher, John Coveney, Mickey Chopra, editors.  Handbook of Food Security and Society.  Edward Elgar Publishing, 2023.   I did a blurb for the back cover: This Handbook argues convincingly that ending hunger means far more than providing food to those in deed.  It means transforming