1. Status report - FoodReach Toronto: lowering food costs for social agencies and community groups.
- Author
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Coleman P, Gultig J, Emanuel B, Gee M, and Orpana H
- Subjects
- Adult, Canada epidemiology, Child, Child Day Care Centers standards, Community Participation methods, Family Characteristics, Humans, Poverty, School Health Services standards, Voluntary Health Agencies, Diet, Healthy economics, Diet, Healthy methods, Diet, Healthy statistics & numerical data, Food Assistance organization & administration, Food Supply economics, Food Supply statistics & numerical data
- Abstract
Toronto has the largest absolute number of food insecure households for any metropolitan census area in Canada: of its 2.1 million households, roughly 252 000 households (or 12%) experience some level of food insecurity. Community organizations (including social agencies, school programs, and child care centres) serve millions of meals per year to the city's most vulnerable citizens, but often face challenges accessing fresh produce at affordable prices. Therefore in 2015, Toronto Public Health, in collaboration with public- and private-sector partners, launched the FoodReach program to improve the efficiency of food procurement among community organizations by consolidating their purchasing power. Since being launched, FoodReach has been used by more than 50 community organizations to provide many of Toronto's most marginalised groups with regular access to healthy produce., Competing Interests: The authors had no conflicts of interest to report.
- Published
- 2018
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