The prevalence and predictors of household food insecurity among adolescents in Canada

Liu, Ruojun; Urquía, Marcelo L.; Tarasuk, Valerie

doi:10.17269/s41997-022-00737-2

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“…In Iqaluit, the capital of Nunavut, FI was identified in 32.9% of households with children compared to 23.2% of households without [ 27 ]. The odds of FI among adolescents were higher in Nunavut (aOR 6.77), Northwest Territories (aOR 2.11) compared to Ontario [ 28 ]. Food security in Inuit Nunangat is a public action priority for ITK, Inuit land claims organizations, and governments, as indicated in the Inuit Nunangat Food Security Strategy [ 29 ].…”

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Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada

Banerji,

Pelletier,

Haring

et al. 2023

PLOS Glob Public Health

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Food insecurity (FI) is at a crisis level in some Indigenous communities and impacts many of the half million First Nations Inuit and Métis (FNIM) children across Canada, particularly in isolated northern communities. This can lead to malnutrition and can have significant impacts on the physical, intellectual, emotional and social development of a child, often with lasting effects across the life course. This is a narrative review article with extensive search of the medical literature with input from the FNIM National organizations. The primary cause of FI is an imbalance between the high price of food relative to household income, where poverty is a driving factor. The cost and lack of availability to healthy foods has resulted in a transition to unhealthy market foods. Food security programs need to be prioritized, multi-faceted and multi-tiered within a framework of food sovereignty. Translational science, research, to practice is also important. The use of successful Indigenous based models of FI, towards food sovereignty using self-determination, Indigenous Knowledge, strength-based models, and ancestral sustainability are critical. Continued community-based evaluation of FI towards sustainable healthy food programs are important for communities to initiate track, evaluate, and grow robust community-based programs to counter-balance FI. Continued scientific research in the fields of FI, food sovereignty, and their relationship to co-occurring conditions related to healthy eating and beverage consumption are vastly important to the health of Indigenous Peoples. These are all part of many Indigenous connection to the earth, through food source, the maintenance of health through ancestral ways of living, set in the premise of looking forward multiple generations towards the continued resiliency through food, diet, relationship, and sovereignty. Food Security is a human right and needs to be urgently addressed for Indigenous children in Canada.

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Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada

Banerji,

Pelletier,

Haring

et al. 2023

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“…Since 2004, Statistics Canada has measured HFI using the Household Food Security Survey Module, which includes eighteen questions about experiences of food deprivation, and their severity, over the past twelve months (Government of Canada, 2012). Some population groups are more vulnerable to HFI, including households with children, lone-parent families, renters versus homeowners, people whose primary income is government assistance, and people who identify as Indigenous or Black (Dhunna & Tarasuk, 2021;Liu et al, 2023;McIntyre, Wu, et al, 2016;Tarasuk et al, 2019Tarasuk et al, , 2022. The health consequences of HFI are well-documented, with people in food insecure households being more prone to various physical and mental health conditions, like heart disease, Type 2 Diabetes, depression, anxiety, chronic pain, and infectious diseases (Hutchinson & Tarasuk, 2022;Jessiman-Perreault & McIntyre, 2017;Liu et al, 2023;Men, Elgar, & Tarasuk, 2021;Ovenell et al, 2022;Tait et al, 2018;Tarasuk et al, 2013).…”

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Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferdinands,

Lavriv,

Beckie

et al. 2023

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, there has been unprecedented attention and funding toward addressing household food insecurity (HFI) in Canada. In Edmonton, a virtual "City Table" was developed to coordinate the myriad of HFI responses and begin to explore and address systemic issues underlying HFI. In this qualitative descriptive study, we asked: what are the opportunities for and challenges to collaboratively addressing HFI within Edmonton's City Table? In 2020, we conducted nine interviews with diverse professionals representing a local funding agency, the municipal food council, the City of Edmonton (community social work), the Edmonton Food Bank, the University of Alberta, ethno-cultural organizations, and other not-for-profit organizations supporting people experiencing poverty. Wenger's three modes of identification in a community of practice (CoP)—engagement, imagination, and alignment—were used to conceptually frame our qualitative analysis. Overall, we found that the HFI response sector reflects the beginnings of a CoP, but that inter-agency competition for funding and donations presents obstacles to the collaborative process. Findings highlight parallels between agencies and their clients, such as the mazes they must navigate to access resources. However, collaboration was facilitated by agencies' ideological cohesion and their shared struggle to address root causes of HFI. Analyses revealed some engagement amongst City Table members, but sparser imagination and alignment. A CoP does not yet exist because all three modes of identification are deficient in varying ways. Building engagement between agencies, shifting staff's imagination to a collective cause, and aligning practices are monumental tasks in this context.

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“…Risk factors to food insecurity in Canada include low income, low education, unstable housing, being a single mother, immigration status, and social assistance reliance (Liu et al, 2023;. Emerging evidence has shown that even after these variables are controlled for, risks of food insecurity remain significantly higher for racialized individuals and households compared to White people of comparable sociodemographic status (Dhunna & Tarasuk, 2021;Tarraf et al, 2018).…”

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Intersections of race, COVID-19 pandemic, and food security in Black identifying Canadian households: A scoping review

Mori,

Onyango

2023

CanFoodStudies

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Although studies have identified food insecurity as a racialized inequity issue disproportionately affecting Black identifying Canadians, research exploring how anti-Black racism across multiple systems create inequities including increased risk for food insecurity among African Caribbean Black identifying households in Canada, is limited. Using an intersectionality lens, this scoping review addresses this knowledge gap by elucidating the intersectionality of race with multiple social determinants of health that directly and indirectly impedes Black people (both of African and Caribbean descent) from accessing adequate and appropriate food, resulting in disproportionate health and social outcomes. Critical analyses of twelve journal articles identified systematically and the review of government and organizational reports and websites reveal that food security in Black identifying individuals in Canada is a racialized emergent public health issue rooted in structural and systemic racism that intersects with multiple determinants of health to produce grave social and economic inequities. The recent COVID-19 pandemic intensified these inequities by increasing food insecurity in Black identifying households in Canada. Cultural food security, referring to the ability to acquire and access culturally appropriate foods to one’s ethnic origins as fulfilment to cultural identity, is an interrelated and foundational pillar to food security yet one that is grossly unacknowledged in current actions. National policies are thus needed that recognize cultural food security, and address root causes through increased social support and sustainable food systems. A reasonable first step to ensure the cultural relevance of policies and initiatives is the active engagement of Black communities.

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The prevalence and predictors of household food insecurity among adolescents in Canada

Cited by 9 publications

References 22 publications

Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada

Food insecurity and its consequences in indigenous children and youth in Canada

Exploring collaboration within Edmonton's City Table on Household Food Insecurity during the COVID-19 pandemic

Intersections of race, COVID-19 pandemic, and food security in Black identifying Canadian households: A scoping review

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