Toronto Food Strategy, Toronto Public Health, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Pitch Communications Ltd, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
Health Promot Chronic Dis Prev Can. 2018 Jan;38(1):23-28. doi: 10.24095/hpcdp.38.1.05.
Toronto has the largest absolute number of food insecure households for any metropolitan census area in Canada: of its 2.1 million households, roughly 252 000 households (or 12%) experience some level of food insecurity. Community organizations (including social agencies, school programs, and child care centres) serve millions of meals per year to the city's most vulnerable citizens, but often face challenges accessing fresh produce at affordable prices. Therefore in 2015, Toronto Public Health, in collaboration with public- and private-sector partners, launched the FoodReach program to improve the efficiency of food procurement among community organizations by consolidating their purchasing power. Since being launched, FoodReach has been used by more than 50 community organizations to provide many of Toronto's most marginalised groups with regular access to healthy produce.
在其 210 万户家庭中，约有 25.2 万户家庭（或 12%）经历某种程度的食物不安全。社区组织（包括社会机构、学校计划和儿童保育中心）每年为数百万城市最脆弱的公民提供数百万餐，但往往面临以可负担的价格获取新鲜农产品的挑战。因此，2015 年，多伦多公共卫生局与公私部门合作伙伴合作，推出了 FoodReach 计划，通过整合社区组织的购买力来提高食品采购效率。自推出以来，已有 50 多个社区组织使用 FoodReach 为多伦多的许多最边缘化群体提供定期获取健康农产品的机会。
