Donating food to a food cupboard is obviously a good thing, says longtime community organizer Alison Clarke, but it doesn’t do anything to address the root causes of poverty and hunger. “People want to do things for people who are poor,” Clarke says, “but they don’t really understand the depth of the issues, where the […]
Hunger
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Hunger risk rises in Rochester area
Nearly 13 percent of Monroe County residents are at risk of going hungry, according to a recent report from Feeding America, a national food bank network and advocacy organization. Rochester’s Foodlink, which is part of Feeding America’s food bank network, distributed some local figures from the national organization’s Map the Meal Gap report yesterday. Across the 10 […]
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Bagging the food waste problem
Chew on this: food makes up approximately one-fifth of the waste sent to US landfills every year, and 30 to 40 percent of the country’s food supply goes uneaten annually. Food waste is a global problem. It makes products more expensive for consumers and squanders important resources like water, fertile land, and energy. And with […]
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Food benefits decreasing
In Monroe County, food stamp cuts come at a time of growing need. In January 2011, 108,078 people in 55,220 Monroe County households received Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, according to the state Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance. In August 2013, the number had risen to 120,332 recipients in 63,973 households. The current decrease, […]
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“If Music Be the Food…”
Carol Rodland’s biography as a classical musician is sufficiently impressive to be its own article. She earned bachelor of music and masters of music degrees from The Juilliard School. She won a Fulbright Scholarship. She has traveled to study, teach, and perform in Europe. She is an associate professor of viola at the Eastman School […]
