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Introduction
Why Keep a Community Food System Report Card?
What is a Food System?
What is Food Sovereignty?
How Do We Measure Food Sovereignty?
How This Report Card is Organized
Acknowledgements
References
Food Access
Context
Measures of Income, Poverty, and Homelessness
Measures of Consumption and Nutrition
Measures of Food Accessibility
Measures of Emergency Food Programs and Usage
Measures of Participatory Initiatives Engaging People in their own Food Security
Observations
Highlights
Forest and Freshwater Foods
Context
Measures of our region’s knowledge of forest and freshwater foods
Measures of protecting and conserving forest and freshwater foods ecosystems
Measures of a diverse and sustainable forest and freshwater foods economy
Observations
Highlights
Food Infrastructure
Context
Measures of access to local food
Measure of distribution infrastructure
Measures of local food processing
Measures of employment
Measures of farm input infrastructure
Measures of food waste diversion
Observations
Highlights
References
Food Procurement
Context
Measures of local food purchasing
Observations
Highlights
Food Production
Context
Farm operator characteristics
Farm characteristics
Observations
Highlights
School Food Environments
Context
Measures of improving school food cultures and access to food
Observations
Highlights
Urban Agriculture
Context
Measures of urban agriculture
Measures of urban agriculture education
Observations
Highlights
Percentage of people living below the poverty line, using the Low Income Measure (after tax) in the Thunder Bay Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (2022)
11%
Measured:
2020
Source:
Statistics Canada. 2017.
9
See year-over-year data for
% in poverty
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