Table of Contents

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    About

    • 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
Thunder Bay's Food System Report Card

Comparative Data for Indicator:  % in poverty

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

Percentage of people living below the poverty line, using the Low Income Measure (after tax) in the Thunder Bay Census Metropolitan Area (CMA) (2015)

12.8%

Measured: 2011

Source: Lakehead Social Planning Council. (2013). 5

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