April 2022

Hunger/Food Security through a Trauma-Informed Lens

The Food Aid Delivery App (ssir.org)

Dana Brown (PACEs Connection Staff) · 4/7/226:00 PM

Between 30 and 40 percent of the US food supply goes to waste each year. The US Environmental Protection Agency estimates that nearly 80 billion pounds of food end up in landfills annually. This figure takes on a greater significance in the context of another food crisis: food insecurity. More than 10 percent of US households are food insecure, and the nonprofit Feeding America reports that this number will increase due to the economic and unemployment consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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