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

Almost 350,000 more households experienced food insecurity over the past 12 months than the previous year, according to Foodbank. Photograph: Eugenio Marongiu/Getty Images/Image Source

Across Australia, 3.7m households have experienced food insecurity over the past 12 months, a jump of almost 350,000 on the previous year, Foodbank’s annual hunger report has revealed.

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