As a professor, John Lowrey has spent years studying how food donations move from grocery stores to food banks, and he thinks he has found a way to increase that volume. He developed an app called FoodALERT, designed to make it easier for food banks and retail grocers to communicate…
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GUEST POST FROM KRISTIN FROST ALBRECHT OF THE FOOD BASKET, INC. – My office is a windowless “cave,” a repurposed corner of a warehouse in Hilo, on Hawaiʻi Island, with a mouse hole in the wall that predates my tenure. Today, that hole is plugged with a bright orange plastic…
Hunger relief leaders in New York City lent positive but guarded support for an unusual plan by the city’s new mayor to bring down the cost of groceries. Elected in November on a platform of affordability, Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants to open five city-owned grocery stores that would sell food…