Tis the season when feasts usually weigh down the tables, but this year a much greater number of cupboards in Manitoba are bare.
Food bank use has never been higher in the province, according to Harvest Manitoba CEO Vince Barletta.
The Winnipeg-based charity supports about 360 rural and urban food banks. Barletta said those food banks are providing monthly support to about 15,000 households, or about 40,000 people.
“We’re seeing huge demand,” he said. “Obviously, price inflation, the pandemic, these are things that are impacting the day-to-day life of just about everybody and, of course, have hit people with low incomes the hardest.”
Why it matters: Inflation, faltering supply chains, international conflict and failed crops globally have compounded into one of the worst food crises that aid organizations say they’ve ever seen. Manitoba farmers have something to say about that.
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