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Fifteen years ago, The Global FoodBanking Network was created to ensure that people around the world have access to food. The mission was simple: launch, strengthen, and sustain a global network of local food banks to support communities when they need it most. This mission still guides us today. Innovate to Alleviate celebrates our 15th…

Fifteen years ago, The Global FoodBanking Network was created to ensure that people around the world have access to food. The mission was simple: launch, strengthen, and sustain a global network of local food banks to support communities when they need it most. This mission still guides us today. Innovate to Alleviate celebrates our 15th…

Fifteen years ago, The Global FoodBanking Network was created to ensure that people around the world have access to food. The mission was simple: launch, strengthen, and sustain a global network of local food banks to support communities when they need it most. This mission still guides us today. Innovate to Alleviate celebrates our 15th…

Fifteen years ago, The Global FoodBanking Network was created to ensure that people around the world have access to food. The mission was simple: launch, strengthen, and sustain a global network of local food banks to support communities when they need it most. This mission still guides us today. Innovate to Alleviate celebrates our 15th…

Fifteen years ago, The Global FoodBanking Network was created to ensure that people around the world have access to food. The mission was simple: launch, strengthen, and sustain a global network of local food banks to support communities when they need it most. This mission still guides us today. Innovate to Alleviate celebrates our 15th…

Recent data on global hunger illustrates a somber truth: approximately 768 million people around the world faced hunger in 2020 — an increase of 118 million people over the past year alone. Food banks supported by The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) witnessed this increase firsthand: 40 million people across 44 countries turned to a GFN…

About 8 percent of Latin America’s population — or 50 million people — identify as Indigenous according to the United Nations Development Programme. Due to systemic exclusion, social marginalization, geographic isolation, and other factors, Indigenous peoples are nearly three times as likely to be living in extreme poverty compared to their non-Indigenous counterparts. Because food…

Prior to the onset of COVID-19, food banks supported by The Global FoodBanking Network were already addressing child hunger, through establishing or supplementing programs run by schools and other organizations. However, the pandemic has further underscored the necessity of these programs for the health of children and their communities. The World Food Programme estimated that by April 2020, 370…

Food banks across Africa expanded exponentially during 2020 to support increased need in their communities during the COVID-19 crisis. Last year, African food banks in The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) increased people served by 169 percent increase over 2019 and distributed 8 million kilograms of food, an 80 percent increase. COVID-19 first appeared in Africa in February 2020, and shortly after, protective public health measures like curfews, quarantines, and school and business closures were put in…

As communities went into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic, food supply chains were disrupted around the world. The Global FoodBanking Network (GFN) member food banks navigated these challenges with agility and tenacity, developing creative strategies that fed approximately 40 million people in 2020. Channels to acquire food suddenly shifted for food banks because of…