food insecurity

An ISU program has been effectively promoting rural development in the Kamuli district of Uganda for twenty years.

Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds is once again rejecting a federal summer food assistance program for kids that would provide grocery money to food-insecure families next summer. She announced Thursday that she is instead seeking funding for monthly food boxes.

Local leaders in Cedar Rapids pitched in to fund a free meal site for children and adults this summer following Hy-Vee's decision to shutter a grocery store by the Wellington Heights neighborhood.

Members of the Food Systems Coalition discuss a new plan to promote sustainable local food production in Iowa, and Olympian and former Hawkeye basketball player Tomi Taiwo joins the show.

The Iowa Food System Coalition wants to make locally produced food the norm rather than an exception and released a 250-page plan to get there in the next decade.

The head of one northwest Iowa nonprofit says the new plan is appalling and fails to help children and their families.

The ninth annual report by Common Good Iowa estimates one in six full-time Iowa workers earns less than what's needed for an estimated basic needs budget.

USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack sent out a letter to the governor's of 44 states that are not meeting federal standards for processing SNAP applications.

Iowans share their experiences with food insecurity, and experts discuss what can be done about it.

Anti-hunger advocates gathered in the Iowa Capitol rotunda Wednesday to call on lawmakers to accept federal food assistance for low-income kids in the summer.