Ronen Zilberman/Civil Beat/2020
Hawai‘i Food Banks And Farmers Are In ‘Real Trouble’ With Federal Cuts
Funding for food stamp programs and food banks are under threat, grants to boost farming have been slashed and, now, the state might step up to help.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Hawaiʻi DOE Wants Another $30M For A Facility That Hasn’t Been Built
The Department of Education is pinning its local food buying goals on a central facility, and the budget is getting bigger and bigger.
(Erin Nolan/Civil Beat/2025)
Major GMO Seed Company Is Maui County’s Top Water Customer
While the genetically modified seed industry has declined across Hawaiʻi, records show Monsanto, now owned by Bayer, has increased its water usage on two Maui farms by 13% since 2021.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Waiʻanae Goes All In With New $17M Facility To Boost Food Security
A 15-acre campus is expected to include a food bank, fruit trees, community kitchen, wastewater treatment center and more.
Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025
Changing Course, Honolulu Is Now Planting Food In Public Spaces
Advocates envision free food for local commuters at rail stations and beyond.
Hawaiʻi Will Soon Be Home To The World’s Biggest Land-Based Seaweed Farm
Ag tech company Symbrosia is scaling up production of its feed supplements for more environmentally friendly livestock production.
(Thomas Heaton/Civil Beat/2025)
Can This Tree Still Save Us? In Some Places It’s Barely Hanging On
ʻUlu, bia, uru, mā: Breadfruit has been lauded as a climate-resilient solution to world food security. That’s not proving true in the Marshall Islands, where some have relied on it for centuries.
Craig Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Use It Or Lose It? Kauaʻi Wants Robinson Resort Land Back To Agriculture
Developers have failed to start construction on the 250-room project for the past two decades.
Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025
Hawaiʻi DOE Starts Year With Unprecedented School Meal Shortages
The cafeteria managers’ union is concerned the shortages will discourage students from purchasing meals and lead to possible cuts to school lunch staff.
Jeremy Hay/Civil Beat/2025
Immigration Raids Throw Long Shadow Over Big Island Coffee Harvest
As their workers are arrested and deported, flee the country or stay away, coffee farmers are struggling to bring in a bumper crop.