*Apologies for cross-posting* Dear colleagues, I'm pleased to share PROOF's seventh report on household food insecurity<https://proof.utoronto.ca/resource/household-food-insecurity-in-canada-2022/>. In May, we summarized the Statistics Canada release on food insecurity statistics collected through the Canadian Income Survey in 2022. We are now providing a more detailed look at that data. We’ve also written a commentary in The Conversation<https://theconversation.com/food-insecurity-in-canada-is-the-worst-its-ever-been-heres-how-we-can-solve-it-216399> summarizing what this means for Canadians, how food insecurity reflects a broader problem of income inadequacy, and what can be done to address the problem, drawing on over a decade of research and reporting on these numbers. The report also connects the latest statistics with our larger body of research on the kinds of policies needed to address this problem. The persistence of food insecurity in Canada is a policy choice. By not doing more to improve the adequacy and stability of household resources, our federal and provincial governments are choosing to let food insecurity fester. We're highlighting the need for policy interventions to improve the quality and stability of jobs, make income supports adequate for meeting basic needs, and better integrate housing and income policies to improve housing affordability and stabilize household budgets. Please share widely. Links: Report: https://proof.utoronto.ca/resource/household-food-insecurity-in-canada-2022/ Commentary: https://theconversation.com/food-insecurity-in-canada-is-the-worst-its-ever-been-heres-how-we-can-solve-it-216399 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulxb-XOd064 Best, Tim -- Tim Li, MSCom PROOF Research Program Coordinator Department of Nutritional Sciences Temerty Faculty of Medicine University of Toronto Toronto, ON M5S 1A8 https://proof.utoronto.ca/ @proofcanada<https://twitter.com/proofcanada> ________________________________ View this email in your browser<https://mailchi.mp/013a68bb85f8/new-report-household-food-insecurity-in-canada-2022?e=6ae3d10f35> [Logo: PROOF, Food Insecurity Policy Research]<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=1b1f3867d3&e=6ae3d10f35> New Report: Household Food Insecurity in Canada, 2022 [Photo of report, Household Food Insecurity in Canada 2022]<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=e94b3571e1&e=6ae3d10f35> Drawing on data for 55,000 households from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey (CIS) conducted in 2022, we found that from 2021 to 2022, the prevalence of household food insecurity in the ten provinces rose from 15.9% to 17.8%, the highest recorded in Canada's 17-year history of monitoring. In 2022, 6.9 million people, including almost 1.8 million children under the age of 18, lived in households who experienced some level of food insecurity in the previous 12 months. Statistics Canada released food insecurity statistics based on the same data in May 2023<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=76dcbfdd29&e=6ae3d10f35>. This new report differs from their reporting by focusing primarily on household-level rather than individual-level statistics. It provides an in-depth exploration of food insecurity with additional descriptions and analyses of sociodemographic and economic characteristics and year-to-year change. The report also puts these numbers into context, drawing on over a decade of research on how food insecurity reflects a broader problem of income inadequacy and what can be done to address it. Read the report<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=abdd82b9ac&e=6ae3d10f35> [Map of prevalence of household food insecurity by province, 2022]<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=839db18383&e=6ae3d10f35> Watch the video [https://mcusercontent.com/f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a/video_thumbnails_new/2ad63c06aee84716840e77257fdc54a8.png]<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=207ca002d1&e=6ae3d10f35> As part of the release of this report, we've put together a short video, highlighting some key takeaway messages. Read the commentary, Food insecurity in Canada is the worst it’s ever been — here’s how we can solve it [Image of header from The Conversation]<https://utoronto.us12.list-manage.com/track/click?u=f0bc4ce703a1f3b145f5a0e0a&id=69e46534c8&e=6ae3d10f35> We've also written a commentary in The Conversation, reflecting on these findings. With the rise in household food insecurity from 2021 and 2022 and the continued inflation since this monitoring occurred, policy action to ensure households are able to afford basic needs has never been more important. "The persistence of food insecurity in Canada is a policy choice. By not doing more to improve the adequacy and stability of household resources, our federal and provincial governments are choosing to let food insecurity fester." 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