Mana Nutrition in Fitzgerald, Ga., still makes pocket-sized packs of a fortified, sweetened peanut butter can mean the difference between life and death for a malnourished child. But a little over a year ago, its primary customer, USAID, was gutted. What's happening now?

St. Anne Outreach recently canceled a scheduled food distribution, citing a shortage of food at the food bank that has left the pantry struggling to fill shelves. There has been a significant food shortage over the past year, the director said.

In the U.S., hunger is often hidden away. It looks nothing like the stereotype of a famine happening overseas. But the physical impacts on health and the psychological scars can last a lifetime.

From the outside, the Sweet Valley Harvest Barn may not look like much. But it's on a transformative mission to combat food insecurity in the community. 

With job losses, food benefit reductions and higher prices, many in the U.S. are having to scrimp this holiday season.

On Friday was the day expected to be the last day of Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits for 42 million Americans for who knows how long, due to the federal shutdown. Helpers scrambled to try to fill the gap, even partially.

Many federal employees missed their first full paycheck last week. As the government shutdown enters its fifth week, many are turning to aid from charitable organizations to make ends meet.

Statistics show nearly half a million children in Georgia struggle with food insecurity. This comes as the federal government has decided it will no longer provide data tracking hunger in the U.S.

As prices rise, more families are turning to food banks. On Monday, the Atlanta Community Food Bank opened a food center in Adamsville to meet that need.

NPR's Gaza producer faced Israeli military fire, private U.S. contractors pointing laser beams at his forehead and masked thieves as he tried to get food from a U.S.-supported group.

Palestinians say Israeli forces killed scores of people trying to reach food aid in Khan Younis on Tuesday in the deadliest attack of recent weeks on hungry crowds attempting to get food in Gaza.

The World Food Programme, a U.N. agency and a Nobel Peace Prize winner, is facing cuts in its budget that experts are describing as "unprecedented."

The World Food Programme says it has just five days left of flour and two weeks left of other food supplies in Gaza.

The first Trump administration tried to scale back who gets food benefits, and allies aim to try again. Food pantries say they're already busier than ever.

A nonprofit organization found that 1.1 million Georgians were food insecure over two weeks in August and September this year, a number that is significantly higher than during the height of the pandemic.