How This Report Card Is Organized

How This Report Card Is Organized

The Report Card is broken into seven chapters that reflect the seven pillars of the Thunder Bay + Area Food Strategy. In each chapter you’ll find an introductory section to provide some context for the indicators, along with the indicators themselves, some...
How Do We Measure Food Sovereignty?

How Do We Measure Food Sovereignty?

Each piece of information measured in this Report Card is called an indicator. Indicators in this Report Card have been chosen for each of the seven pillars of the Thunder Bay + Area Food Strategy so that we can measure progress or change on issues over time, ranging...

What Is A Food System?

Food systems include the economic, environmental and social factors involved in food production, distribution, processing, retail, consumption, and waste or repurposing. The People’s Food Policy is the first Canadian policy to be advanced based on food sovereignty...

What Is Food Sovereignty?

Food sovereignty is an approach to understanding the diverse relationships that bring food from the fields, waters, and forests to our plates. La Via Campesina, the world’s largest global peasant movement, defines food sovereignty as “the right of peoples to...
Introduction

Introduction

Building Strong Community Food Systems  Food is intimately tied to our health as individuals and plays a major role in the well-being of our communities, economies, and environments. While food is a critical component of healthy and sustainable communities,...

Why Keep A Community Food System Report Card?

In 2015, the Thunder Bay + Area Food Strategy created the Community Food System Report Card that established a snapshot of the challenges and opportunities within the regional food system. Beyond compiling a wealth of data, the initial Report Card also served to...