The number of people classified as "food insecure" is on the rise in the Genesee Valley and Finger Lakes region.
Food insecurity means not always knowing where the next meal is coming from. Using data compiled from the Census Bureau, the Department of Agriculture and other sources, the organization Feeding America reports food insecurity affects 159,190 people, or 13% of the population in the ten county region that includes Rochester.
Tom Ferraro, executive director and founder of Foodlink, says the data allows them to target areas where the food supply chain has broken down, and present a case to donors and food manufacturers.
Ferraro adds the number of people who are "food insecure" keeps growing even as sources of food are being exhausted.
