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Food poverty

August 2024

  • A drone delivers aid during a Covid lockdown in Chile in 2020. Photograph: Marcelo Hernández/Getty Images

    The Audio Long Read
    Food, water, wifi: is this the future of humanitarian aid? – podcast

  • Shoppers from Aldi supermarket loading their car boot with groceries

    Revealed: how UK’s poor paid price of ‘cheapflation’ in cost of living crisis

  • a side-by-side image of Ron DeSantis and children picking up food

    Ron DeSantis’s rejection of federal aid left children hungry, advocates say

  • Salad nicoise. Tuna with baby potatoes, eggs, beans, tomatoes, olives and parsley.

    Are ultra-processed foods always harmful?

July 2024

  • A graffiti sign reading 'food bank' on a wall as a man walks by

    Families affected by two-child benefit limit ‘more likely to skip meals’

    Food Foundation survey finds 14% of households experienced food insecurity in June, with hunger more prevalent in larger families
  • A child points to a row of cartoon-emblazoned macaroni and cheese containers.

    Our unequal earth
    Why is it so hard to get ultra-processed foods out of our diets? A lack of time

    Lindsey Smith Taillie
    Better food labels are a necessary but insufficient step to improve diets and health

    • Gordon Brown launches London’s first ‘multibank’ amid UK child poverty fears

    • A first-of-its-kind free food market opens in San Francisco: ‘Without this, some of us won’t make it’

    • Food bank calls for end to subsidised ‘fine dining at meal deal prices’ for MPs

June 2024

  • Food Stamp<br>$1 Food Coupon. Grunge and textured details. Issued first in 1989. Same monetary value as U.S. currency but can only be used to buy food. Given by the government to people in need. Serial number has been altered, to protect the poor.

    Well Actually
    Why did I cry when I was approved for $271 of food stamps this month?

    After losing her job, Felisa Rogers found herself on government assistance, fearing judgment decades after a food-insecure childhood
  • Schoolchildren eating a meal.

    Three steps that would stop children going hungry

    Letter: Andrew Forsey suggests reforms that would ensure fewer children’s lives are blighted by poverty and hunger

    • The broken years: Tory Britain 2010-24
      How Britain became a food bank nation

    • A quarter of state school pupils in England receiving free school meals

    • One in four young children at risk of ‘irreversible’ harm due to poor diet – report

May 2024

  • The three politicians smiling in front of a crowd of people holding Lib Dem posters

    Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey

  • Michelle Roach bought a used ice-cream van in order to bring cheap, affordable food to Liverpool's struggling communities. The Guardian's Christopher Cherry follows Michelle and the van on its rounds, with the service struggling to meet overwhelming demand as the cost of living crisis deepens.

    8:39

    The woman feeding Liverpool from an ice-cream van – video

  • Gordon Brown at the Big Hoose project in Fife, Scotland, which provides food and household goods to people in poverty.

    Observer letters
    It’s time to tackle the root causes of poverty

  • A person holds a basket with food items at Peckham Pantry in London.

    Social acceptance of food banks is a mark of Tory failure

  • ‘People haven’t woken up to the scale of this’: Gordon Brown on the UK’s child poverty scandal

  • Charities attack Tesco rules for evening-only collection of unwanted food

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