Australia in ‘the midst of a food security crisis’ as 3.7m households struggle to buy enough to eat

Almost 350,000 additional households experienced food insecurity in the past year, according to latest Foodbank survey

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Some 3.7 million households across Australia have experienced food insecurity over the past 12 months, a jump of almost 350,000 on the previous year, Foodbank’s annual hunger report reveals.

More than 2.3 million of those households were severely “food insecure”, meaning they were actively going hungry, reducing food intake, skipping meals or going entire days without eating.

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