Food Insecurity

The Utah Food Bank has received funding for distributing what it calls more "culturally responsive" foods.

Policy changes have made major strides in reducing child poverty over the past several decades, but there is still more to be done.

About one in five adults reported experiencing food insecurity in the previous 30 days. Al Switzler joins us to discuss Tabitha’s Way, a Utah-based food pantry.

In her new book, Jessica Fanzo explores how in the context of the broad global trends of population growth, climate crisis and inequitable food availability, food systems need to be re-oriented to ensure they can produce enough food to nourish the world.

The Utah Food Bank is seeing a large number of individuals in need of their services because of COVID-19 and rising inflation rates.

The survey found that food insecurity disproportionately impacts women, first-generation students, students of color and rural students.

Utah agriculture adds several billions of dollars to the Utah economy every year. In the face of supply chain issues and increasing food prices, the USDA has unveiled a new plan to improve US food systems for both producers and consumers.

May 14 marks the 30th anniversary of the annual National Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive, a day when local letter carriers collect non-perishable groceries along their routes for the Utah Food Bank and its 216 affiliates across the state.

Students across Utah universities are facing the highest proportions of hunger ever recorded. Colleges fight back through the pandemic by expanding food…

Utah is one of only a handful of states that taxes food, but one state legislator says taxing groceries should become a thing of the past.The state…