Hunger is an acute challenge for far too many American households. This was true before the COVID-19 pandemic, and it is even more pressing today. Across the US, 19.5 million households are food insecure—defined as those without the financial resources needed for consistent access to enough food—a growth of 45% since March 2020. More acutely, nearly 12.2 million of these households report food insufficiency, or not having enough food to eat at some point in the last week. This striking number suggests that existing relief programs and aid are not meeting their needs.

Further complicating the crisis is its uneven distribution. Nine of the ten states with the highest rates of food insecurity are concentrated in the south. In some of those hardest hit, like Louisiana, more than 21% of the population is food insecure, a growth of 113,000 since the beginning of the pandemic. Even more pronounced are the rates of food insufficiency in these states, with more than 253,000 people in Louisiana (15% of the population) reporting not getting enough food to eat at some point in the last week.

Year Completion 2022
Project Location City of Surabaya, Indonesia
Planner/Contributor Hermanto, ST, IAP.
Mapping and visualization by Firman Ramadhan, ST, M.Sc.
Contact Firmanramadhan@gmail.com