(Des Moines) Hunger fighting advocates gathered Wednesday at the World Food Prize Hall of Laureates in Des Moines for the Iowa Hunger Summit, with a focus on the root causes and local solutions to hunger that can make big differences.
Speakers focused not only on the ongoing challenges of providing food, which the World Food Prize Foundation calls a moral right, but also on the rippling effects the federal “big beautiful” law will have on food programming.
“I would be seriously remiss if I did not acknowledge that government policy changes are significantly impacting our collective work right now,” said Ann McGlynn, recipient of the 2025 Iowa SHARES Humanitarian Award…