EASTHAMPTON, Mass. (WWLP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has announced the termination of its long-standing food security reports, a decision that has raised concerns among local food ...

WASHINGTON —The US Department of Agriculture is terminating household food security reports, claiming the “redundant, costly, politicized and extraneous studies do nothing more than fear-monger.” The ...

The USDA announced plans to discontinue future Household Food Security reports, ending the annual supplemental survey that, among other things, was used as the government’s official statistic on “food ...

The Department of Homeland Security Office of Health Security, in coordination with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) ...

As a small farmer in Arkansas who teaches people to grow, harvest, cook, and preserve their own food, I'm part of a network of farmers, educators, and organizations working every day with families ...

The USDA has discontinued its annual food insecurity survey, which has been the primary measure of hunger in America for nearly 30 years. Food banks and hunger relief organizations rely on this data ...

Food banks statewide are seeing more people coming in, but with food prices continuing to rise, meeting that need becomes more difficult. Facing Hunger Foodbank CEO Cynthia Kirkhart said on top of ...

A customer holds a pepper at the grocery store (USDA photo) Food security is improving, but future challenges remain, according to the latest Global Food Assessment released by USDA. The report ...

The late Sen. Patrick Moynihan would often quip, “If you want to solve a problem you must be able to accurately measure it in order to measure progress”. Two of us, former secretaries of agriculture ...

When the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced it would stop producing its Household Food Security report after Oct. 22, I felt disbelief and immediate concern as a researcher and scholar of food ...

In the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) final food insecurity report, Arkansas was found to be the most food-insecure state for a third consecutive year.