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SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- A U.S. Department of Agriculture survey pegged Utah as the worst state in the country for what it calls "food security" and a reluctance by its needy residents to apply for ...
USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) is out with its annual International Food Security Assessment, and it isn’t pretty. And the reason things have gotten worse is the worldwide coronavirus ...
The USDA breaks down food insecurity into two groups: low and very low food security. In 2022, 5.1% of households experienced very low security, compared with 3.8% in 2021.
North Texas food providers are scrambling to find a way to fill a $9.2 million funding gap following cuts in March to two U.S. Department of Agriculture programs that bought food from local farmers.
The Department of Agriculture is demanding states hand over personal data of food assistance recipients — including Social Security numbers, addresses and, in at least one state, citizenship ...
The Purdue University College of Agriculture’s Department of Agricultural Economics has received a $1.5 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and ...
WASHINGTON, March 20, 2023 – USD$220 million in new agricultural investment grants for 15 countries was announced by the Global Agriculture and Food Security Program (GAFSP), a global multilateral ...
In the 2015 Intelligence Community Assessment on Global Food Security, the U.S. intelligence community noted that “large exportable supplies of key components of food production—such as phosphates, ...
Such is the case with Masstown Market and alum Laurie Jennings, whose generous donation is fueling the Cultiv8 program at Dalhousie’s Faculty of Agriculture. This funding will help complete a climate ...