PROOF Administrator

In 2015 and 2016, Ontario, Newfoundland and Labrador, and Yukon chose not to monitor food insecurity. As a result, there will be no national estimates for those years.

May 25, 2017

PROOF has recently published a new study in the Canadian Journal of Public Health, looking at the extent that food skills and garden use relate to household food insecurity in Canada.

March 13, 2017

Dr. Valerie Tarasuk spoke with U of T writer Jim Oldfield on the potential of a basic income to reduce food insecurity and improve health.

November 28, 2016

In a new research article, PROOF researchers show that guaranteed annual income is effective in decreasing food insecurity among low income seniors in Canada.

September 19, 2016

This study reviewed Hansard records for 4 jurisdictions to examine the policy proposals put forth to address household food insecurity and how they were debated in legislation.

June 28, 2016

We discuss the differences between household food insecurity monitoring in Canada and the recent release of international food insecurity rates by the UN.

June 10, 2016

At Closing the Gap, PROOF Principal Investigator Valerie Tarasuk presented on food insecurity in Canada and what we’ve learned from over a decade of monitoring and research.

April 30, 2016

Researchers found that legislators tied food insecurity to food banks, despite evidence that food banks are unable to address the problem.

March 15, 2016

Food bank statistics are a poor barometer of food insecurity because they don’t describe the size of the problem or how it’s changing over time.

March 3, 2016

Over four million Canadians experience some level of food insecurity. Here are 5 things you should know about food insecurity in Canada.

January 14, 2016