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Big Island Now : ‘Unprecedented And Frankly Scary’: Food Basket Experiencing Severe Food Shortage

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The Food Basket received more than 1.4 million pounds of food through the emergency food program in 2020, getting the most, 518,824 pounds, in the fourth quarter of that year. Since then, the amount of food provided to the food bank through the program has steadily decreased. The organization is filling in the gaps in food as best as it can with donated food and funds.

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Big Island Now : ‘Unprecedented And Frankly Scary’: Food Basket Experiencing Severe Food Shortage

The shelves at one of The Food Basket warehouse facility are bare because of a severe food shortage because of supply chain issues with The Emergency Food Assistance Program of the USDA. (Photos courtesy of The Food Basket)The Food Basket, Hawai‘i Island’s food bank, has never experienced the type of food shortage it is seeing now.“Never of this magnitude — the drop in volume and shipments is unprecedented and frankly scary,” Kristin Frost Albre…

2 years ago·Honolulu, United States

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