Food insecurity in Puerto Rico has been a longstanding problem since the island embarked on the largest municipal bankruptcy proceeding in U.S. history less than a decade ago.

With the COVID-19 pandemic, the phone at the Food Bank of Puerto Rico hasn't stop ringing. The food organization's president, Denise Santos, says that ever since the island went into lockdown in ...

As Puerto Rico enters the second half of 2025, a new report from NielsenIQ highlights growing financial pressure on local ...

In Puerto Rico, Activists Transform Abandoned Land To Build Food Sovereignty. ... where most of the food is imported and more than 40% of the population is below federal poverty levels and experience ...

Today, about one-third of residents experience food insecurity. Puerto Rico also consumes 70 times more energy than it produces, indicating enormous new generation capacity must be brought online ...

Nearly 3 out of 4 young adults in Puerto Rico might not have ideal cardiovascular health due to lifestyle behaviors, new ...

Puerto Rico is going through a food revolution, and a new generation of farmers, like Fernando Maldonado, have lofty ambitions to feed the island. Nestled in the Carite rainforest, ...

The Caribbean island’s cuisine combines African, Indigenous and Spanish influences to create dishes of distinction.

The findings are consistent with "well-known characteristics” of Puerto Rico's economy, such as limited job opportunities, stagnant wages and income disparities, researchers say.

A new study is shedding light on the financial challenges people in Puerto Rico face as a result of the economic turmoil they have endured since the Great Recession.