Announcement

We explain how the official household food insecurity statistics released in Canada and the United States differ and cannot be directly compared. We provide more comparable estimates for the two countries for the past seven years of available data.

July 15, 2026

We’ve summarized the latest data on food insecurity in 2025 from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey. In 2025, 9.8 million Canadians, including 2.4 million children, lived in a food-insecure household.

April 29, 2026

Last month, Dr. Daniel Dutton testified before the Senate about why food-based interventions are not the solution to food insecurity in Canada.

January 15, 2026

Our study in Health Reports examined how vulnerability to household food insecurity changed between 2019 and 2023 and found that relying on employment income no longer protects Canadian households from food insecurity.

December 17, 2025

We’ve summarized the latest data on food insecurity in 2024 from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey. In 2024, 10 million Canadians, including 2.5 million children, lived in a food-insecure household.

May 5, 2025

Congratulations to PROOF principal investigator Dr. Valerie Tarasuk on her appointment to the Order of Canada!

December 18, 2024

We’ve summarized the latest data on food insecurity in 2023 from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey. In 2023, 8.7 million Canadians, including 2.1 million children, lived in a food-insecure household.

April 26, 2024

We’ve summarize the latest data on food insecurity in 2022 from Statistics Canada’s Canadian Income Survey. In 2022, 6.9 million Canadians, including almost 1.8 million children, lived in a food-insecure household.

May 2, 2023

This submission summarizes how the federal government could improve children’s health by increasing the amount that low-income families receive from the Canada Child Benefit.

December 6, 2022

Join us for a discussion on the current state of food insecurity in Canada, who are most at risk, and the evidence-based policy interventions that reduce food insecurity by improving the financial resources of low-income households.

September 22, 2022