Licensing & Attribution

We support the sharing of our research and findings to increase public understanding of food insecurity and build capacity for food insecurity research and policy advocacy, so long as we are properly credited for our work.

Unless stated otherwise, the content of this site is original work by PROOF and is protected under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. This license allows you to share, copy, distribute, and transmit the work for non-commercial purposes, provided you attribute it appropriately to PROOF.

Any use of the content from this site, including but not limited to the quotes, statistics, or graphics, should include clear and full attribution to PROOF and any other appropriate authors, and a link to the corresponding webpage.

This site includes and cites findings from different research articles. Use of specific findings should refer to the citations where applicable for the appropriate attribution.

Note on reporting food insecurity statistics:

Our status reports on household food insecurity are unique products of our analysis and may differ from how others report data from the same sources. As such, any use of the reports and their statistics should be appropriately attributed to PROOF.

Disclaimer: 

Shared PROOF content or references to PROOF content by others should not be considered as an endorsement. PROOF is not responsible for the interpretation and attribution of resources by others.

If you have any questions regarding licensing or attribution, please contact proof@utoronto.ca.