Food assistance needs grow post pandemic
USDA USDA looks to future of Farmers to Families Food Box program and way to improve upon distribution of fresh foods. Although many celebrated the downward trends in food insecurity in the decade leading up to 2020, without question the pandemic catapulted more families into food insecurity, shared Eric Hodel, chief operating and chief financial officer for the Midwest Food Bank in Normal, Illinois, during a House Agriculture Committee hearing on food insecurity March 11. Midwest Food Bank helped distribute over 1 million boxes in 2020 through the Farmers to Familie...
Source: farmprogress.com