Food Insecurity
Thinking Outside the Big Box to Address Food Deserts
The solution to food deserts doesn’t appear to lie in wooing large retailers to fill voids so much as listening to the needs of the underserved and trying multiple approaches to get healthy foods in the hands of residents.
curiousKC | Shape Our Coverage About Food Access and Security
What conversations are missing about food security, access and economy in Kansas City? Shape our coverage through curiousKC.
The Giving Grove’s Little Orchards Cast Long Shadows
The Giving Grove is empowering communities in Kansas City and several other cities to plant orchards to combat food insecurity.
Food Prices Jump, Even As More Go Hungry
Food price are rising at rates not seen in nearly a decade, even more go hungry.
Season of Giving: Kosher Food Pantry
This charity goes to people in need, particularly rural residents.
Rural and Hungry
The rush hits at noon. That’s when kids start pouring into the gym at Susquehanna Baptist Church. On a scorching Wednesday last month, they lined up to choose their lunches: pizza, subs or PB&J. Most picked pizza. The Independence, Missouri, church is one of more than 350 summer food sites around Kansas City that…
The Kansas summer-meals program isn’t reaching enough children. Some advocates are working to change that.
The state of Kansas and four nonprofit organizations are seeking federal approval to conduct an experiment that they hope will boost participation in a summer meals program that now is serving only a fraction of eligible children. Led by the Kansas State Department of Education, the coalition is asking the U.S. Department of Agriculture to temporarily waive some rules so that it can conduct a demonstration project to feed needy children in rural parts of the state when school is out for the summer.
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