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- 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.
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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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Going back to last year’s report, this means we need governments to take a dual approach—one in which they tackle the root causes of food bank use, which are low incomes and poverty, while also tackling the immediate need for relief for millions of people.
Jan 17, 2024 · To provide the highest levels of safety and dignity in food banking beyond this, Food Banks Canada is proud to announce the launch of a new set of national food bank standards that cover all areas of food bank operations to ensure overall operational excellence across the entire network.
A food bank is a nonprofit organization that collects safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food, and redistributes it to individuals and families experiencing food insecurity. Some food banks act exclusively as distribution centres for their member agencies.
- Geographic Context
- The Community–University Partnership
- Research with Emergency Food Service Providers
- Findings with Emergency Food Service Providers
- Broadening The Research Scope
- Research with Emergency Food Service Users
- Findings with Emergency Food Service Users
- Ongoing Engagement and Research-Informed Actions
The projects described here were conducted in the city of Guelph and Wellington County (Guelph–Wellington). The city of Guelph is an urban center with a population of approximately 130,000 located west of Toronto, Ontario. Wellington County includes seven rural Townships surrounding the city of Guelph with a population of approximately 90,000. Alth...
Within Guelph–Wellington, the primary community partners were the Guelph and Wellington Task Force for Poverty Elimination (PTF) and the Food Access Working Group (FAWG) of the Guelph–Wellington Food Round Table. These groups include broad representation from different stakeholders including social service providers, community activists, policy mak...
The objective of the first research was to understand the main strengths and limitations of the current provision system from the perspective of service providers. In total, 23 semi-structured interviews were completed with representatives from organizations engaged in either the direct or indirect delivery of emergency food to vulnerable populatio...
There were key differences identified between organizations in Guelph (urban) and Wellington (rural). Organizations in Wellington tended to run on a much smaller scale than their counterparts in Guelph, with under 50 individuals, on average, accessing services from each rural food bank, in contrast to well over 50 (and up to 4000) individuals acces...
Following the review and endorsement of the first report, the PTF struck an Emergency Food Services ad hoc Committee to develop a set of concrete recommendations for both short- and long-term action based on the research results. That committee included the lead author of the report and several other stakeholders closely familiar with (but not dire...
In the second phase of the project with service users, 80 surveys were conducted to explore demographic characteristics of emergency food users and to better understand the experiences of these individuals with emergency food service use. Survey design was informed by the previous project with service providers and refined in consultation with comm...
The majority of survey respondents identified as female (73%), were either a single parent or single adult (71%), and were Canadian citizens (83%). In addition, most respondents lived in the city of Guelph (76%) compared to Wellington County. In terms of housing status, almost half of the respondents (48%) reported paying rent at market rates, whil...
Across both research projects, there was consensus among both service providers and service users about the need for change within the emergency food provision system in Guelph–Wellington. In particular, there was support for the development of a community food hub that would build on the existing sense of collaboration between service providers, w...
Sep 10, 2020 · Partnering with the Chicago-based Global Foodbanking Network, Food Banks Canada promotes the corporate myth that surplus food is a “win-win” for reducing both food waste and food insecurity.
Apr 22, 2021 · We found significant reductions in food insecurity for people who accessed food banks that offered a Choice model of food distribution and food banks that were integrated within Community Resource Centres. Food banks offer some relief of food insecurity but they don’t eliminate the problem.
