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2006-06-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
A comprehensive guide to national and state facts on hunger and poverty. Combines original data and research from America's Second Harvest's Research and Analysis Department with current statistics from the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and other pertinent government agencies.
This Almanac is divided into five sections and 50 State Reports:
Section I: About America's Second Harvest -- The Nation's Food Bank Network
This section features the history and current work of our organization. In addition to highlighting donation and program information, this section details the many functions of the Departments of Public Policy and Research. These departments conduct research and policy advocacy through unique projects including the landmark quadrennial study Hunger in America 2006 and the annual Network Activity Report.
Section II: Federal Nutrition Programs
This section contains thorough narratives on federal nutrition programs. These descriptions incorporate history, facts, and eligibility requirements of critical programs.
Section III: National Statistics on Hunger and Poverty in America
This section offers a statistical picture of hunger in America with a collection of charts, graphs, and rankings. This section's data is vital to understanding the nature and scope of hunger in our country. Sections II and III offer valuable context to the extensive state data found in Section IV of this book.
Section IV: State-By-State Statistics on Hunger and Poverty in America:
This section compiles data never before collected into one resource. For each state, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, we provide:
- a detailed map of Network Member service areas and congressional districts
- basic demographics
- indicators of poverty
- nutrition program participation information
In addition, exclusive data compilation and analysis from America's Second Harvest's Research and Analysis Department supplies state-by-state information from our most recent Network Activity Report.
Section V: Resources
This section features important materials including:
- U.S. Census Bureau Poverty Thresholds
- Poverty Guidelines from the United States Department of Health and Human Services
- and a Food Stamp Program Eligibility Cap Chart
The Almanac is a unique and valuable tool for policymakers and advocates or anyone committed to finding solutions to the problem of hunger in America.
2006-06-01
RUAF - Resource Centres on Urban Agriculture and Food Security;
Urban agriculture is the growing of plants and the raising of animals for food and other uses, and related processing and marketing activities, within and around cities and towns. Urban agriculture has received increased attention in the past few years from development organisations and national and local authorities in developing countries. With its multiple functions, urban agriculture plays an important role in urban poverty alleviation and social inclusion, urban food security, urban waste management and urban greening. Since 1999, partners of the International Network on Urban Agriculture and Food Security (RUAF Foundation) have been playing a crucial role in improving access to information on urban agriculture and in enhancing the capacities of local authorities, NGOs, farmer organisations and other stakeholders regarding local participatory diagnosis and strategic action planning on urban agriculture. This publication presents the "state of the art" of the development of sustainable urban agriculture and as such indicates progress made since the first major publications on urban agriculture: the UNDP publication "Urban Agriculture" (published in 1996 by Smit et al.) and the DSE publication "Growing Cities, Growing Food: Urban Agriculture on the Policy Agenda" (published in 2000 by Bakker et al).
2007-06-01
Feeding America (formerly America's Second Harvest);
We are pleased to present the second and expanded edition of the nation's most comprehensive guide to national and state facts on domestic hunger and poverty. We hope this guide, with its unique combination of original research from the America's Second Harvest Network along with current statistics from a multitude of government and private sources, will become the most powerful needed to understand the causes and consequences of hunger in our communities and in our country. Most importantly, we hope that the Almanac become a vital instrument in fostering the debate on how we can reduce and ultimately end hunger in America.
2008-01-01
Earth Policy Institute;
We are witnessing the beginning of one of the great tragedies of history. The United States, in a misguided effort to reduce its oil insecurity by converting grain into fuel for cars, is generating global food insecurity on a scale never seen before. The world is facing the most severe food price inflation in history as grain and soybean prices climb to all-time highs. Wheat trading on the Chicago Board of Trade on December 17th breached the $10 per bushel level for the first time ever. In mid-January, corn was trading over $5 per bushel, close to its historic high. And on January 11th, soybeans traded at $13.42 per bushel, the highest price ever recorded. All these prices are double those of a year or two ago.
2008-04-16
Earth Policy Institute;
A fast-unfolding food shortage is engulfing the entire world, driving food prices to record highs. Over the past half-century grain prices have spiked from time to time because of weather-related events, such as the 1972 Soviet crop failure that led to a doubling of world wheat, rice, and corn prices. The situation today is entirely different, however. The current doubling of grain prices is trend-driven, the cumulative effect of some trends that are accelerating growth in demand and other trends that are slowing the growth in supply.
2011-01-12
Earth Policy Institute;
"Our early 21st century civilization is in trouble. We need not go beyond the world food economy to see this. Over the last few decades we have created a food production bubble -- one based on environmental trends that cannot be sustained, including overpumping aquifers, overplowing land, and overloading the atmosphere with carbon dioxide," notes Lester R. Brown, author of World on the Edge: How to Prevent Environmental and Economic Collapse (W. W. Norton & Company).
2011-11-22
Earth Policy Institute;
World consumption of animal protein is everywhere on the rise. Meat consumption increased from 44 million tons in 1950 to 284 million tons in 2009, more than doubling annual consumption per person to over 90 pounds. The rise in consumption of milk and eggs is equally dramatic. Wherever incomes rise, so does meat consumption. As the oceanic fish catch and rangeland beef production have both leveled off, the world has shifted to grain-based production of animal protein to expand output. With some 35 percent of the world grain harvest (760 million tons) used to produce animal protein, meat consumption has a large impact on grain consumption, and therefore global food security.
2014-04-01
Just Fair Consortium;
Welfare reforms, benefit delays and the cost of living crisis have pushed an unprecedented number of people into a state of hunger, malnutrition and food insecurity in the UK. In recent years one of the world's richest countries has witnessed a massive increase in the number of people seeking emergency food aid from food-banks and being admitted to hospital for illnesses related to malnutrition. The Trussell Trust has confirmed today that 913,138 people received a minimum of three days emergency food its foodbanks in 2013-14, compared to 36,992 in 2012-13 and up from 26,000 in 2008-09.
2015-04-08
Vermont Community Foundation;
The Food and Farm Initiative works at the nexus of hunger, health, and the state's agricultural tradition to connect Vermont families with healthy, local food regardless of where they live or what they earn.
2009-01-06
Alabama Faith Council;
Poverty is a vital moral issue for people of faith. Poverty is the result of a complex set of global and local issues, not necessarily a reflection of any kind of failure on the part of those families living in poverty. Our calling as people of faith is not only to provide direct assistance to those in need, but also to address the underlying issues, including government and social policies, that keep people in poverty. One factor that contributes to poverty in Alabama is the tax on groceries.
1993-04-28
Community Food Security Coalition;
The product of a year's work for six researchers, Seeds of Change is perhaps the most thorough documentation of an urban community's food system. Sections on hunger, nutrition, food industry, supermarket industry, communmity case study, farmers' markets, urban agriculture, joint ventures, and food policy councils.
