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Coleman, Paul, Gultig, John, Emanuel, Barbara, Gee, Marianne and Orpana, Heather (2018) Status report - FoodReach Toronto : lowering food costs for social agencies and community groups. Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada, 38 (1). pp. 23-28. doi:10.24095/hpcdp.38.1.05 ISSN 2368-738X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.24095/hpcdp.38.1.05
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.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School > Health Sciences > Population, Evidence & Technologies (PET) Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Medicine > Warwick Medical School |
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Journal or Publication Title: | Health Promotion and Chronic Disease Prevention in Canada | ||||||
Publisher: | Public Health Agency of Canada | ||||||
ISSN: | 2368-738X | ||||||
Official Date: | January 2018 | ||||||
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Volume: | 38 | ||||||
Number: | 1 | ||||||
Page Range: | pp. 23-28 | ||||||
DOI: | 10.24095/hpcdp.38.1.05 | ||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
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