Upstream action on food insecurity: A curated list
This curated list offers tools and resources to facilitate action on policy solutions related to food insecurity.
Food systems
Public Health Speaks: Upstream action on food insecurity
Leading thinkers and practitioners in the area of food insecurity engage in discussion about how public health practice can move beyond a charity focus to addressing food insecurity and take action through upstream policy solutions.
Position statement and recommendations on responses to food insecurity
The Ontario Dietitians in Public Health’s food security working group reviewed and compiled research to support implementation of income-based policy approaches to reduce poverty as the most effective way to address food insecurity.
Paying for nutrition: A report on food costing in the North
This report provides an analysis of food costing data in one area of Northern Ontario as an example to highlight the elevated cost and decreased affordability of food in northern First Nations communities. The disproportionately high incidence of food insecurity in these communities is also discussed.
Health inequities in New Brunswick
This report presents data revealing the unequal distribution of social determinants and health status in New Brunswick. It “is meant to stimulate individual and collective interest and facilitate conversations to address this important issue which affects all New Brunswickers…” (p. 5)
Make food matter
This website has links to materials and resources to support action on food security, including local research evidence. In addition, the site features a model of approaches to achieve a sustainable food system, and the option to bookmark resources to a personalized “action portfolio.”
Hurdles to health
Hurdles to Health is a personal narrative about a Saskatoon family, shared by a wife and mother of a low-income household. This video shows the family’s daily struggles caused by the barriers poverty creates to achieving overall health and wellbeing.
Healthy Living: Public policy makes a difference
A brief video describing how public policy can support healthy living, told through the stories of two low-income mothers in Vancouver.
Large forces affecting health equity: How health equity is affected by societal shifts such as hom
Dr. Lynn McIntyre, Professor and CIHR Chair in Gender and Health, University of Calgary and President of the Canadian Public Health Association, shows how financial policy affects people’s ability to purchase nutritious food.
Pathways to improving well-being for Indigenous peoples: How living conditions decide health
This paper highlights the interconnectedness between social determinants and Indigenous peoples’ health. The authors argue that efforts to reduce current health inequities between Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples must attend not only to the symptoms of ill health, but also to the factors that underlie ill health.