Food Access

School meals being handed out on the first day of a meal program launched by Des Moines Public Schools during its pandemic shutdown. (Photo CC-licensed by Phil Roeder)

Changes to School Meals Have Made Low-Income Kids Healthier. Will They Last?

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08.10.20

Op-ed: Why Those Community Fridges Won’t Solve Hunger

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07.30.20

Volunteers pack up boxes of food to be distributed to those in need at the distribution center of the Capital Area Food Bank on April 9, 2020 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

College Food Pantries Are Reinventing Ways to Feed Students

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07.27.20

young people pull processed food out of a box of online snap orders

COVID Brought SNAP Users Online. Advocates Say Mega-Retailers Are Selling Them Junk Food

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07.23.20

White says goodbye to one of her meal recipients.

Meet the People Who Bring Food and Comfort to NYC’s Homebound, Food-Insecure Seniors

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07.21.20

An overhead view of the Detroit urban farm study on week five. (Photo courtesy of Naim Edwards)

Could a Detroit Experiment Unleash the Power of Urban Soil?

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07.16.20

Harlem Grown's Tony Hillery. (Photo courtesy of Harlem Grown)

How Black Communities Are Bridging the Food Access Gap

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07.07.20

A Mashpee Wampanoag tribal gathering. (Photo courtesy of the Mashpee Wampanoag)

The ‘Thanksgiving Tribe’ Is Still Fighting for Food Sovereignty

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06.26.20

Jamil Burns of Raised Roots Farm in Oakland, shows off some of his produce destined for mutual aid for protesters seeking Black liberation.

Op-ed: We Can Build a Better Food System Through Mutual Aid

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06.26.20

Shiloh Maples in the Sacred Roots garden holding Walpole Island flint corn. Some of the seed will be saved for the seed library and some will be used in food processing workshops. (Photo courtesy of Shiloh Maples)

Rediscovering Detroit’s Roots Through Indigenous Food

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06.18.20

Stacking pallets of USDA Farm Boxes at the Common Market warehouse in Georgia. (Photo by Emma Rolader for The Common Market)

How Food Hubs and Co-Ops Are Overcoming the USDA Farm Box Program’s Flaws

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06.11.20

A man harvesting fresh produce in a greenhouse in Jackson, Missippi.

‘Fertile Ground’ Explores How Jackson, Mississippi, Is Charting a Better Food Future

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06.10.20

Students working in the garden at Dream of Wild Health

Feeding an Indigenous Community and Rematriating Seeds in Minneapolis

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06.09.20

Delivering food to the Navajo Nation. (Photo © Nate Lemuel)

Food as Medicine on the Navajo Nation

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06.04.20

a collage of photos of the work of Red Wing United doing their work to feed and support residents of Laredo.

Red Wing United is Building Power in Laredo, ‘The Last Place to Get Aid’

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05.21.20

tara mcdaniel stands outside cedarville elementary school garden. Photo courtesy of Food Corps

With Schools Closed, Their Gardens Take on a New Role

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05.20.20

a woman shops at a farmers market using food assistance funds during the coronavirus pandemic

Op-ed: With Food Insecurity on the Rise, Nutrition Incentives Should Be More Equitable

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05.14.20

tractors in the field harvesting produce

California Is the Nation’s Ag Capital. Here’s How it’s Addressing the Food Crisis.

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05.11.20