Hunger Awareness: Web Resources

The pandemic shines a bigger spotlight on the issue of college students with food insecurity and how their institutions can support them.

Feeding America partnered with Claremont Graduate University to better understand 1) how network food banks are addressing college food insecurity in their communities, and 2) how college students are experiencing college hunger.

A Health Affairs Forefront article that looks at the impact of food insecurity on student success and current efforts and recommendations to address food insecurity.

The Great Plains Food Bank has completed Hunger in North Dakota 2018 (HIND), a comprehensive study of more than 500 clients and 175 partner agencies (food pantries, shelters, soup kitchens) of the Great Plains Food Bank to identify trends surrounding personal situations, household demographics, tough choices, coping strategies and the use of nutrition programs surrounding those seeking emergency food assistance. This included both Cass County and Clay County, MN.

A surprising number of college students deal with basic needs insecurity, meaning they struggle to secure stable housing or enough food to eat. With fall classes about to begin, there are some pandemic-era options for students struggling to afford food. Though these options are temporary, lawmakers are also looking at long-term solutions to alleviate food insecurity for this demographic.

This is what food insecurity looks and sounds like. Listen to the stories of hunger and advocacy, told by college students across the nation. Hosted by Monica Sager. Powered by Challah for Hunger. Challah for Hunger builds communities inspired and equipped to fight food insecurity. Learn more and join the movement at campushunger.org.

A conversational series featuring change makers and everyday leaders disrupting the status quo to end systems of inequity that drive food insecurity in the United States. Host Ami McReynolds, Chief Equity and Programs Officer with Feeding America, talks with community leaders, supporters and people facing hunger who each bring unique contributions to a collective effort to end hunger.

Join Dr. Phil Knight for “Food First,” presented by the Food Bank Council of Michigan and Farm Bureau Insurance. Each edition features innovative leaders from across our community for a sharing of ideas and solutions that can help us end food insecurity.

Main Street hosts Ashley and Doug talk with people who are working in the Coalition to End Hunger in North Dakota. In this program celebrating the coalition's 10th anniversary, hear about rural grocery stores, getting children excited about nutrition, Meals on Wheels, mothers and food -- there's a lot to talk about.

How should we be rethinking hunger? This is a biweekly podcast about people who are making change in our food system. The New Mexico Out-of-School Time Network invites you to join in on critical conversations with thought leaders on the issue of food insecurity. Hosted by Sophia Rose, NMOST Meals VISTA and food systems thinker, this informative, interview-based podcast is sure to leave you with a greater resolve to make change.

Food insecurity is defined as the lack of consistent access to enough nutritious food to support health. In this podcast, a group of medical students from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center shed light on how food insecurity is an important social determinant of health.

Are farmers paid fairly? Does race play a role in food insecurity? Is our food system broken? "At The Table" is a Twin Cities PBS Original series, in partnership with the Cargill Foundation, that addresses the social and systemic issues within our food environment.

Intergenerational, multicultural food justice for all.