Revealed: how UK’s poor paid price of ‘cheapflation’ in cost of living crisis
Price rises were bigger for budget foods than expensive varieties during peak years of inflation, research shows
Ron DeSantis’s rejection of federal aid left children hungry, advocates say
Florida governor didn’t take $250m in federal funds for EBT program this year. Some worry next year will follow suit
Are ultra-processed foods always harmful?
Letters: People buy ultra-processed foods because they can’t afford anything else, writes Laurence N Mann; plus letters from Helen Grist and Niklas Grundstrom
July 2024
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
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
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
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
Lib Dems would extend free school meals to all primary schoolchildren, says Ed Davey
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The woman feeding Liverpool from an ice-cream van – video
Observer letters
It’s time to tackle the root causes of poverty
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
April 2024
Sudan had largest number of people facing extreme food shortages in 2023, UN report shows
The African country accounted for two-thirds of the additional 13.5m people needing urgent help as displacement drove food insecurity globally