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The Intersection between Health, Healthcare, and Food Insecurity
I have been volunteering at a free healthcare clinic for the past 6 months . The clinic provides free services to over 1,000 uninsured individuals in the community. I quickly learned that many of our patients were also struggling in other areas of their lives. This...
Food Prices
Globally, prices for food are rising, especially for staple ingredients. The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization announced January 2021 that the Price Index of cereals, vegetable oils, sugar, dairy, and meat had risen to its highest level since July 2014,...
Impact of COVID-19 on the Food Space
The impact of COVID-19 on the global scale has been devastating economically, politically, socially, and mentally. With the shutdown of indoor restaurants in many parts of the United States, farmers have seen a halt in production. According to the Problem of Waste,...
ChowBank Food Recovery App Acquired by MEANS Database
Today at the World Food Prize Foundation’s Iowa Hunger Summit, MEANS Database announced their acquisition of Des Moines-based food rescue app ChowBank. Since its debut in 2015, ChowBank helped users like Eat Greater Des Moines as the organization rescued nearly twenty...