Why eliminating food insecurity requires dismantling anti-Black racism by PROOF published on 2021-10-12T01:04:01Z We’ve known for a while that Black households in Canada are more likely to experience inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints, but little has been done to better understand this disparity. This special podcast presentation explores our recent study, "Black–white racial disparities in household food insecurity from 2005 to 2014, Canada" published in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, available at: https://link.springer.com/article/10.17269/s41997-021-00539-y We spoke with: Paul Taylor, Executive Director of FoodShare (https://foodshare.net/) Simran Dhunna, MPH, lead author on this paper Melana Roberts, Chair of Food Secure Canada (https://foodsecurecanada.org/) Andrée-Anne Fafard St-Germain, PhD Hosted and produced by: Tim Li Read our accompanying piece for Healthy Debate at: https://healthydebate.ca/2021/10/topic/food-insecurity-anti-black-racism/ For the full transcript and show notes, visit: https://proof.utoronto.ca/racial-disparities-podcast/ Website: https://proof.utoronto.ca/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/proofcanada PROOF is an interdisciplinary research team investigating household food insecurity in Canada. The goal of this research program is to identify effective policy approaches to reduce household food insecurity, which is defined as the inadequate or insecure access to food due to financial constraints.
