Food Access

Veteran Farmers Jason Tartt and Sky Edwards inside one of the high tunnels they procured with the help of USDA NRCS. (Photo credit: Rebecca Haddix, USDA)

Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country

January 24, 2022

Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.

Incarceration, Abolition, and Liberating the Food System

By Ashanté Reese

January 17, 2022

hands breaking free of chains in an illustration of liberation

Why the Food Supply Chain Is Strained. Again.

By Lisa Held

January 13, 2022

MIAMI, FLORIDA - JANUARY 11: Shelves displaying meat are partially empty as shoppers makes their way through a supermarket on January 11, 2022 in Miami, Florida. The coronavirus Omicron variant is still disrupting the supply chain causing some empty shelves at stores. (Photo by Joe Raedle/Getty Images)

The Field Report: Biden Targets Consolidation in the Meat Industry (Again)

By Lisa Held

January 7, 2022

Meat Prices To Rise As Corn Supply Diverted For Ethanol Production

Our Best Food Access Stories of 2021

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 29, 2021

Setting up food distribution at the Phillips Free Store. (Photo credit: Brybry)

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Justice

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 27, 2021

low angle view of african american man with scarf on face holding placard with racism is a pandemic lettering against blue sky

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Access and Nutrition

By The Civil Eats Editors

December 24, 2021

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Access and Nutrition

Fighting Food Apartheid with Louisville’s Black Market Grocery Store

By Malia Guyer-Stevens

December 13, 2021

Shauntrice Martin's Black Market would become an experiment to test the limits and possibilities of community-led initiatives to address food access and respond to food apartheid.

Hunger Continues to Plague Americans. Here’s Why—and What to Do About It.

By Lela Nargi

December 2, 2021

Small group of people donating their time by working in a warehouse to organize and distribute non-perishable goods to families and people in need.

How I Changed My Relationship to Grocery Shopping—and My Financial Future

By Gosia Wozniacka

November 30, 2021

The Inequity of Hunger: An Interview with Priya Fielding-Singh

By Matthew Wheeland

November 24, 2021

Op-ed: Boosting SNAP Will Put More Food on Millions of Tables. It Will Also Prevent Depression and Anxiety.

By Caitlin Daniel

November 5, 2021

Mother and 2 young daughters eating breakfast, mother helping the youngest, despite suffering crippling mental health challenges as a result of food insecurity

Delta Fresh Foods Is Bringing Food Security to Northern Mississippi

By Nadra Nittle

October 27, 2021

picking lettuce in mississippi as part of delta fresh foods work

In Tucson, ‘Barrio-Supported Agriculture’ Feeds the Latino Community

By Lourdes Medrano, YES! Magazine

October 22, 2021

Tuscon's first locally sustainable and organic food truck sponsored by the Flowers and Bullets Collective.

Op-ed: How Food Became the Perfect Beachhead for Gentrification

By Pascale Joassart-Marcelli, The Conversation

October 15, 2021

Food trucks at GenR: LA Force For Change I Am Not A Weapon Exhibition, hosted by Generation Rescue and the International Rescue Committe, on June 19, 2019 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Samantha Trauben/Getty Images for International Rescue Committee)

Op-ed: The Pandemic Didn’t ‘End Hunger’—It Exposed Systemic Racism Instead

By Ashanté Reese

October 7, 2021

Op-ed: The Increase in SNAP is Welcome. Now Let’s Reform the Entire Benefits System

By Rae Gomes

August 30, 2021

The End of Pandemic Safety-Net Programs May Cause Rural Food Insecurity to Rise

By Liz Carey, The Daily Yonder

August 30, 2021

South Portland Food Cupboard is one of the food pantries operated by the Good Shepard Food Bank in Maine. The Pantry is led by a team of over 130 volunteers who pick up donations, stock shelves and serve clients. (Photo credit: Good Shepherd Food Bank via Facebook)

Op-ed: It Takes More than Food to Fight Hunger

By Billy Shore

August 25, 2021

parent and children shopping for fresh produce made possible in part by the child tax credit and food assistance programs

Colleges Rush to Sign Students Up for Food Aid, as Pandemic Rules Make More Eligible

By Alejandra Salgado, CalMatters

August 20, 2021

Sacramento State student Madeline Waters prepares a meal, in her Sacramento home with ingredients provided by CalFresh on Tuesday, June 1, 2021. Photo by Rahul Lal for CalMatters College Journalism Network

20 Solutions-Focused Food and Agriculture Stories for your Summer Inspiration

By The Civil Eats Editors

August 2, 2021

A Native-led Initiative Seeks to Spur an Agricultural Revolution in Rural Alaska

By Max Graham, High Country News

July 29, 2021

Eva Dawn Burk stands on the bank of the Tanana River in late April in her home village of Nenana, Alaska. Burk is a graduate student at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, who is developing biomass-heated greenhouses for rural Native communities. (Photo credit: Brian Adams, High Country News)

On Pine Ridge Reservation, a Garden Helps Replace an 80-mile Grocery Trip

By Nadra Nittle

July 19, 2021

Rose Fraser harvesting potatoes in a garden on the Pine Ridge Reservation. (Photo courtesy of the Oyate Teca Project)

How Gleaning Could Reshape the Farm Economy

By Natalie Peart, YES! Magazine

July 9, 2021

Gleaners at Salvation Farms in Morristown, Vermont. (Photo from Salvation Farms)

Dr. Robert Bullard: ‘We Don’t Have 40 Years’ to Fight for Climate Justice

By Ray Levy Uyeda

July 7, 2021

Robert Bullard leads a delegation from HBCUs during the People's Climate March.

Food Access

Black Farmers Are Rebuilding Agriculture in Coal Country

Incarceration, Abolition, and Liberating the Food System

Why the Food Supply Chain Is Strained. Again.

The Field Report: Biden Targets Consolidation in the Meat Industry (Again)

Our Best Food Access Stories of 2021

Today’s food system is complex.

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Justice

Taking Stock And Looking Forward: Food Access and Nutrition

Fighting Food Apartheid with Louisville’s Black Market Grocery Store

Hunger Continues to Plague Americans. Here’s Why—and What to Do About It.

How I Changed My Relationship to Grocery Shopping—and My Financial Future

The Inequity of Hunger: An Interview with Priya Fielding-Singh

Op-ed: Boosting SNAP Will Put More Food on Millions of Tables. It Will Also Prevent Depression and Anxiety.

Delta Fresh Foods Is Bringing Food Security to Northern Mississippi

In Tucson, ‘Barrio-Supported Agriculture’ Feeds the Latino Community

Op-ed: How Food Became the Perfect Beachhead for Gentrification

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Op-ed: The Pandemic Didn’t ‘End Hunger’—It Exposed Systemic Racism Instead

Op-ed: The Increase in SNAP is Welcome. Now Let’s Reform the Entire Benefits System

The End of Pandemic Safety-Net Programs May Cause Rural Food Insecurity to Rise

Op-ed: It Takes More than Food to Fight Hunger

Colleges Rush to Sign Students Up for Food Aid, as Pandemic Rules Make More Eligible

20 Solutions-Focused Food and Agriculture Stories for your Summer Inspiration

A Native-led Initiative Seeks to Spur an Agricultural Revolution in Rural Alaska

On Pine Ridge Reservation, a Garden Helps Replace an 80-mile Grocery Trip

How Gleaning Could Reshape the Farm Economy

Dr. Robert Bullard: ‘We Don’t Have 40 Years’ to Fight for Climate Justice