Australian charities providing food relief are facing the adverse effects of a combination of unfavourable factors, including supply chain disruptions, rising living costs due to COVID-19, natural disasters and overseas conflict. Ronni Kahn, the founder and CEO of OzHarvest—a non-profit organisation that collects extra food and delivers it to people in need—said that her organisation has had to buy food for the first time instead of relying on donations since COVID-19 broke out. She said that was due to a shortage of surplus food on supermarket shelves caused by disruptions in supply chains and an additional million people having problems with food security. “We’re already feeling the impact between the cost of living, COVID, and now another natural disaster means there will be more and more people needing food,” she told the National Press Club on March 9. “There is absolutely a place for a (government) food security committee so …