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Aug 17, 2015 · The broadening of mandates beyond food charity reflects the desire to provide sustainable supports, decrease stigma around food banks, and help alleviate food insecurity in other ways. In 2014 food bank usage remained 25% higher than prior to the recession of 2008.
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by Krista McCracken There are currently over 800 food banks...
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Defined by the mobilization of food donations and volun-teer labor within communities to provide food to those in need, food banks are undeniably a response to food inse-curity, but their relevance to this problem is rarely asses-sed.
- Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée Anne Fafard St-Germain, Rachel Loopstra
- 2020
Jan 31, 2019 · Food banks have been the only direct response to household food insecurity in Canada for more than three decades now, but our study confirms earlier research that challenges the premise that food bank use is a normative strategy to augment resources among food-insecure households.
- Valerie Tarasuk, Andrée Anne Fafard St-Germain, Rachel Loopstra
- 2020
Oct 16, 2011 · Food banks, by and large, proclaim themselves to be voluntary, "short-term emergency" responses to the problem of hunger, and call upon governments and other established agencies to develop co-ordinated strategies to deal with the problem in the longer term.
Food Banks, where food is stored and given to individuals in need, is not a new concept. In fact, the very first food bank in Canada opened in Edmonton, Alberta in 1981. There was a large need after a bust in the oil industry resulted in a recession that affected many Canadian families.
Aug 26, 2014 · Food banks began to proliferate in Canada in the early 1980s as what was meant to be a temporary response to needs arising from the economic recession of that period [8].
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Oct 31, 2023 · The first formal food bank in Canada was established in Edmonton in 1981 as an emergency response to feed those in need amid an economic recession. Today, food charities, including food banks, drop-in meal programs, and shelters, have become the country’s go-to answer to hunger.
