As the final days of the school year wrap up, the summer brings along more challenges in tackling food insecurity faced by hundreds of thousands of Georgia children and teens.
The coronavirus pandemic has amplified already existing issues of food insecurity. Meanwhile, many large corporations aren’t open, or aren’t operating at full capacity, and their kitchens are going underused. That’s why two Atlanta nonprofits have teamed up for the “Atlanta Community Kitchen Project,” coordinating with companies to fire up those underutilized ovens and cook up meals to donate.
Food deserts, or areas where there’s nowhere to buy fresh, healthy food, don’t just happen on their own. Everything from city codes to discriminatory...
Many kids look forward to seeing their friends, learning new skills and playing sports when the school year starts back up. However, some children might...
Bobby Akins lives on Auburn Avenue in downtown Atlanta. He lives in a high rise and has a fixed income, but finds himself in a food desert. That's an...
This month, GPB launched its "Full Plates" series, looking at hunger in Georgia. One in six Georgians is food insecure, meaning they don't always know...
According to the Georgia Food Bank Association, one in six Georgians is food insecure, meaning they don't know how or where they'll get their next meal....
Food insecurity is a pressing issue nationwide — particularly in Georgia, where one out of every four children live in food insecure households. It's a...
Nearly half of college students on campus experience food insecurity, according to a recent study . It’s an issue University of Georgia students wanted...
Three to four days a week Ernestine Mims comes to the Senior Center in Twiggs County to eat lunch with her friends. On a recent afternoon, t he women s...
In 1920, African American farmers owned 14% of all American farmland. Today, 45,000 black growers own just 2% of that land. The vast majority of them...
Thousands of Savannah residents don’t have easy access to fresh, nutritious foods. They live in food deserts, which are areas where people live more...
A new study suggests Georgians would be hard hit by a proposed U.S. Department of Agriculture rule , which would cut Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
