Food Insecurity

“The most basic thing that we've got to do is make sure that people get fed and people get health care,” Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker said at a roundtable discussion in East St. Louis on Tuesday.

An East St. Louis pantry said it used to get 12 to 13 pallets of produce per week. Now, it’s four or five after the USDA eliminated a program that reimburses states for purchasing produce from local farmers.

The chief community health officer at SSM Health hopes that a joint effort by local hospital systems will result in improved health outcomes in St. Louis.

Urban farmers in Spanish Lake and parts of Florissant could receive over $3 million in funding from the St. Louis County Council to help scale their operations to grow more food that would feed thousands of north county residents.

Operation Food Search has completed $10 million in renovations to its facilities in Overland. The additions improve capacity to meet the needs of over 200,000 people a month.

Families in the St. Louis region needing nutritious meals can now choose from a variety of food items at the International Institute’s first food pantry. The partnership with Operation Food Search will help feed 40 families weekly.

Food City aims to create a more inclusive, sustainable food ecosystem in St. Louis.

This is the second year in a row the O’Fallon Garden Club earned the national honor for largest amount donated per capita.

Cairo, once a food desert, welcomed its new market last year with balloons and cheers. But the store is struggling — exposing problems with the programs set up to help.

For the third year in a row, taxpayers claiming Missouri’s food pantry tax credit found they didn’t get the full value when the state Department of Revenue reviewed their returns.