Hunger quiets people, and there was almost no conversation among the 145 who gathered in an Upper Darby church parking lot, awaiting a charitable distribution of produce, on a recent wet spring morning. Breaking the silence, Juliana Noble said, “A lot of changes in my life brought me here today.” The 50-year-old mother of a [...]
The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (WFP) is calling for safe humanitarian access to Libya so that it can ramp up food and other assistance to those fleeing violence. On Thursday, a ship carrying more than 1,000 metric tonnes of wheat flour that was being shipped to Benghazi in Libya returned to Malta without [...]
Just a few months after announcing plans to double the sales of fresh produce sourced from local farms in U.S. locations by the end of 2015, Walmart has offered up $2 million to help food banks become more energy efficient. The Walmart Foundation announced this week that the cash will help 16 food banks in [...]
