Austin church packages 35K meals to address global food insecurity

AUSTIN (KXAN) — More than 200 volunteers from Austin’s Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd helped package more than 35,000 meals Sunday, in collaboration with international nonprofit Rise Against Hunger.

The meals will help feed people facing hunger and food insecurity across the world, per a press release. Approximately 250

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Food insecurity contributes to poor health outcomes for Hoosiers

In accordance to Feeding The us, a person in nine people in Indiana faces hunger. When many Hoosiers have rebounded from the worries posed by the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, matters are worse for many in our communities, significantly when it comes to meals insecurity. The impending

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Global food insecurity and famine from reduced crop, marine fishery and livestock production due to climate disruption from nuclear war soot injection

We use a state-of-the-art global climate model to calculate the climatic and biogeochemical changes caused by a range of stratospheric soot injections, each associated with a nuclear war scenario18 (Tables 1 and 2). Simulated changes in surface air temperature, precipitation and downward direct and diffuse solar radiation are used

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GT Voice: US’ empty talks, selfishness not helping tackle global food insecurity

Local kids receive food after attending training on cultural heritage knowledges in Bamyan province, Afghanistan, July 13, 2022. Photo:Xinhua

Local kids receive food in Bamyan province, Afghanistan. Photo:Xinhua

The world is facing “a global emergency of unprecedented magnitude” as the number of people facing acute food insecurity worldwide has more than doubled to 345 million this year since 2019, said David Beasley, executive director of the UN World Food

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Utah Legislature Enlists Local Nutrition Coalition in Fight Against Food Insecurity

Posted by Sandra MacMartin, Public Affairs Specialist with guest author Paul Birkbeck, SNAP Program Specialist, Utah Department of Workforce Services in

Food and Nutrition
Nutrition Security

Jul 27, 2022

Utah SNAC graphic

My name is Paul Birkbeck, and I have worked with SNAP for 26 years and have been honored to chair Utah’s

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One Way to Solve Food Insecurity: Healthy Food Distribution Programs

Published 02-08-22

Submitted by Duke Energy

4 masked volunteers carrying boxes

Originally published by Duke Energy

A salad with a rainbow of fruits and vegetables. Celery boats with radish, cream cheese, smoked paprika and chili lime spice. Spiced pear dessert burritos. Those are just some of Catherine Sadler’s creative dishes from the past months.

“I

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BYU researchers breed hybrid quinoa to combat global food insecurity

Quinoa, that nutty sweet seed we curiously refer to as a grain, has shot up the food chain from obscure California-hipster dish to an American culinary mainstay.

Its popularity has now reached the level that the people who decide such things have officially ascribed a national day in January to

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