food insecurity

USDA's annual look at household food security in our nation reveals that in 2023, food insecurity among American households increased from 12.8% to 13.5%.   “Very low food security, a more severe form of food insecurity, was unchanged," noted economic researcher Matthew Rabbit.   R...

Research by Penn State University published in ScienceDaily shows food insecurity increases when rainfall is below normal.  The researchers focused on food insecurity in Tanzania, and found moving from a year with typical rainfall to a particularly dry year was associated with a 13-percentage-point increase in the risk of being food insecure.  Tanzani...

New research from ERS shows global food insecurity increased by nearly 10% in fiscal year 2022.  USDA’s International Food Security Assessment model estimates how food prices and incomes affect food demand and access in 77 low- and middle-income countries.  Food security...

According to data released by ERS earlier this week, food insecurity varies greatly across the nation.  ERS said there are a list of reasons for the difference, including household-level characteristics, State-level characteristics, and State-level policies.  The est...

USDA’s Economic Research Service just released its annual report on food security, showing a slight improvement in 2021 from 2020.  American Farm Bureau Federation Senior Economist Veronica Nigh says according to the study, roughly 13.5 million house...

ERS released data that week that shows in 2021, 89.8% of U.S. households were food secure throughout the entire year.  Food secure means they had access to food at all times for all household members during the year.  The remaining 10.2% of households we...

Earlier this week, the White House announced the date for its Conference on Hunger, Nutrition, and Health.  The Conference, set for September 28th, is slated to be the first Conference of this kind in more than 50 years.     Millions of Americans are afflicted with food insecurity and diet-related diseases, including heart disease, obesity, and type 2 diabetes, which are some of the leading causes

Earlier this week, USDA Economic Research Service released data showing food insecurity rates across the U.S. The estimated prevalence of food insecurity between 2018–2020 nationwide was 10.7%. Food-insecure households are defined as those that had difficulty at some time during the year providing enough food for all their members because of a lack of resources. The ...

The Washington State Department of Agriculture recently commissioned two studies to look at the COVID-19 pandemic’s impact on food accessibility and production. The WSDA’s Hector Castro, said the two studies, one conducted by Washington State University, the other by the University of Washington, found while the pandemic created significant challenges for both food access and production, the syst

USDA's latest annual look at household food security in America shows no percentage change year over year in the number of households that were food insecure at some point due to lack of resources; 10.5% of all American households in both 2019 and 2020 ...