The Oregon Food Bank Network releases annual statewide statistics
"High unemployment and growing foreclosures forced a record number of people in Oregon and Clark County, Wash., to seek emergency food in fiscal year 2008-09, Rachel Bristol, CEO of Oregon Food Bank, announced today."
Distribution of emergency food boxes throughout the Oregon Food Bank Network skyrocketed to historic highs, according to the OFB Networks' annual year-end report (July 1, 2008, to June 30, 2009) Read the news release for an overview > http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/news/news_releases/view.html?id=235

OFB Network's 2008-09 statistics broadsheet (PDF)
http://www.oregonfoodbank.org/research_and_action/documents/broadsheet_2008-09.pdf

More Resources:

• FAO Food Security Statistics
• The Food Security and Nutrition Forum
• IFPRI Food Security Outlook in Africa to 2025
• Community Food Security Coalition
• Food Security dgCommunity
• One World UK - Food Security
• Food Security and Ag-Biotech News
• Video: Food Security and Its Impact on International Development and HIV Reduction (October 16, 2006) A Woodrow Wilson Center event featuring Jordan Dey, UNFP; William Noble, Africare; and Suneetha Kadiyala, IFPRI
• Hot Commodities, Stuffed Markets, and Empty Bellies What's behind higher food prices? from Dollars & Sense July/August 2008
• Food Secure Canada
• VCU Project on Societal Distress Food Security Page
• Indigenous Permaculture
• CSRL, Iowa State's cooperative aid program