Data from statistics canada reveals that across the country, people who identify as indigenous or black are at greater risk of experiencing food insecurity.
The educative tools below help us better understand the link between race and food insecurity. Identifying systemic inequalities that affect food security is crucial when looking for ways to improve food security.
FoodShare
The Toronto based organization FoodShare runs programs and creates resources that focus on food justice, using an equity lens to seek justice, and food security, for everyone. At FoodShare, food justice means working to dismantle systemic forms of oppression that exist in our food system and in our food movement.
FoodShare partnered with PROOF Food Insecurity Policy Research to take a look at race and food insecurity, and created a factsheet which is a great educative resource for staff and community members.
The free webinar below was held by FoodShare on June 30, 2020, and discusses what Black food sovereignty means, why it is important, and how we can collectively work to advance it.
Visit FoodShare’s website and YouTube channel for many more resources.
Anti-Racism resources from the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg
The website of the Social Planning Council of Winnipeg includes an extensive collection of educative Anti-Racism resources which are informative tools to inform meaningful discussions about systemic racism and inequalities.
Did we forget important resources on the subject matter? Please let us know!
Tarasuk, Valerie, Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain, and Andrew Mitchell. “Geographic and socio-demographic predictors of household food insecurity in Canada, 2011–12.”
FoodShare. (2020). Retrieved on August 11, 2020 from https://foodshare.net/
PROOF Food Insecurity Policy Research. (2020). Retrieved on August 11, 2020 from https://proof.utoronto.ca/
Social Planning Council of Winnipeg. (2020). Retrieved on August 11, 2020 from https://spcw.mb.ca/2020/06/anti-racism-resources/
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