Presentation slides from CToronto Food Strategy as part of a Healthy Corner Store Initiatives webinar hosted by Sustain Ontario's Food Access Peer Learning Circle held on March 4th, 2015.
Toronto Food Strategy: Food Access MappingBringFoodHome
The Toronto Food Strategy aims to foster a healthy and sustainable food system. It takes a multi-pronged approach, including building networks, leveraging resources, and using both top-down and bottom-up strategies. Food environment mapping is being used to better understand relationships between income, food access, and other factors. Initial findings show lower income areas tend to have less healthy food retail environments and schools are more likely to have fast food nearby. The research is informing policies like the new Residential Apartment Commercial zone to support healthier food options in apartment communities.
The Toronto Food Strategy aims to foster a healthy and sustainable food system in the city. It takes a multi-pronged approach, including building networks among stakeholders, leveraging resources, and using both top-down and bottom-up strategies for change. One focus is improving food access in low-income neighborhoods through initiatives like mobile good food markets, working with corner stores to offer healthier options, and skills training programs. The strategy also explores policies around access to land and infrastructure to better support local food production and distribution.
This was an assignment completed for a pre-MBA internal case competition called "Scholarship Weekend". The goal was to analyze industry trends and Starbucks's vision in order to generate growth recommendations for the next 3-5 years. My team and I analyzed various elements and provided deeper insights crafting a specific strategy.
Lessons from Helvetas: more than 12 years of promoting organic farming in Lao...Andrew Bartlett
Helvetas has been promoting organic farming in Laos for over 12 years through various projects. The PROFIL project from 2004-2011 helped establish organic standards and certification capacity in Laos. It also created the organic farmers market in Vientiane, which became popular and influential. More recently, the LURAS project from 2014-2021 built local capacity for certification and testing, and helped connect farmers to markets. However, challenges remain around generating sufficient farmer premiums and consumer trust without proper enforcement of standards and certification. Storytelling and connecting consumers directly to producers may be more effective than certification alone in building the trust needed for organic markets to thrive. Saving the organic farmers market in Vientiane is critical to the future of organic
This document summarizes a pre-workshop session on the global health market. It outlines that global health challenges require interdisciplinary solutions. Currently, low-income countries rely on donors while middle-income countries receive more public funding. Access to affordable, quality services is still lacking. Global health innovation aims to create sustainable new products, processes and business models to reach underserved populations. The document discusses adapting innovations to different market segments and key stakeholders in the global health value chain. It also notes recent trends like non-communicable disease burdens and growing private sector interest. Potential partnerships between public, social and private entities are suggested to develop market-based solutions.
O documento discute o ciclo hidrológico, que é a circulação da água entre a superfície terrestre e a atmosfera impulsionada pela energia solar. O ciclo inclui a evaporação, condensação, precipitação, escoamento superficial e subterrâneo da água. Além disso, fornece estatísticas sobre a distribuição da água doce e salgada na Terra.
Presentation used by Amanda Behrens, Project Manager at the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future during the workshop titled "Knowing you Make a Difference: Community Food Security Assessment and Evaluation"
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2012 ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN Conference Global Gateways and Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture, and the Future of Food Systems
Carolyn Zezima, Director of Food and Nutrition Initiatives, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Despite increasing recognition that fresh, healthy, local foods are scarce in low-income communities, and the creation of a number of healthy food initiatives targeting these communities, historically underserved communities still lack novel, profitable, and sustainable businesses that supply healthy, affordable and taste-satisfying foods. Bringing together the business and public health sectors, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine invited business students to submit concepts and plans for viable, market and community-driven business solutions to one of our most pressing public health needs: healthy, affordable food in underserved communities. The proposed enterprises must have served communities with limited availability to healthy foods, be tailored to the particular assets and challenges in the communities, and must be developed in consultation with target communities. Proposals were judged by a panel of experts in business, food and local government. Teams competed for $25,000 in start-up funds and other business support services.
Toronto Food Strategy: Food Access MappingBringFoodHome
The Toronto Food Strategy aims to foster a healthy and sustainable food system. It takes a multi-pronged approach, including building networks, leveraging resources, and using both top-down and bottom-up strategies. Food environment mapping is being used to better understand relationships between income, food access, and other factors. Initial findings show lower income areas tend to have less healthy food retail environments and schools are more likely to have fast food nearby. The research is informing policies like the new Residential Apartment Commercial zone to support healthier food options in apartment communities.
The Toronto Food Strategy aims to foster a healthy and sustainable food system in the city. It takes a multi-pronged approach, including building networks among stakeholders, leveraging resources, and using both top-down and bottom-up strategies for change. One focus is improving food access in low-income neighborhoods through initiatives like mobile good food markets, working with corner stores to offer healthier options, and skills training programs. The strategy also explores policies around access to land and infrastructure to better support local food production and distribution.
This was an assignment completed for a pre-MBA internal case competition called "Scholarship Weekend". The goal was to analyze industry trends and Starbucks's vision in order to generate growth recommendations for the next 3-5 years. My team and I analyzed various elements and provided deeper insights crafting a specific strategy.
Lessons from Helvetas: more than 12 years of promoting organic farming in Lao...Andrew Bartlett
Helvetas has been promoting organic farming in Laos for over 12 years through various projects. The PROFIL project from 2004-2011 helped establish organic standards and certification capacity in Laos. It also created the organic farmers market in Vientiane, which became popular and influential. More recently, the LURAS project from 2014-2021 built local capacity for certification and testing, and helped connect farmers to markets. However, challenges remain around generating sufficient farmer premiums and consumer trust without proper enforcement of standards and certification. Storytelling and connecting consumers directly to producers may be more effective than certification alone in building the trust needed for organic markets to thrive. Saving the organic farmers market in Vientiane is critical to the future of organic
This document summarizes a pre-workshop session on the global health market. It outlines that global health challenges require interdisciplinary solutions. Currently, low-income countries rely on donors while middle-income countries receive more public funding. Access to affordable, quality services is still lacking. Global health innovation aims to create sustainable new products, processes and business models to reach underserved populations. The document discusses adapting innovations to different market segments and key stakeholders in the global health value chain. It also notes recent trends like non-communicable disease burdens and growing private sector interest. Potential partnerships between public, social and private entities are suggested to develop market-based solutions.
O documento discute o ciclo hidrológico, que é a circulação da água entre a superfície terrestre e a atmosfera impulsionada pela energia solar. O ciclo inclui a evaporação, condensação, precipitação, escoamento superficial e subterrâneo da água. Além disso, fornece estatísticas sobre a distribuição da água doce e salgada na Terra.
Presentation used by Amanda Behrens, Project Manager at the John Hopkins Center for a Livable Future during the workshop titled "Knowing you Make a Difference: Community Food Security Assessment and Evaluation"
Engaging Social Entrepreneurs in Community-Based Participatory Solutions to F...Carolyn Zezima
2012 ASFS/AFHVS/SAFN Conference Global Gateways and Local Connections: Cities, Agriculture, and the Future of Food Systems
Carolyn Zezima, Director of Food and Nutrition Initiatives, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Despite increasing recognition that fresh, healthy, local foods are scarce in low-income communities, and the creation of a number of healthy food initiatives targeting these communities, historically underserved communities still lack novel, profitable, and sustainable businesses that supply healthy, affordable and taste-satisfying foods. Bringing together the business and public health sectors, Communities IMPACT Diabetes Center at Mount Sinai School of Medicine invited business students to submit concepts and plans for viable, market and community-driven business solutions to one of our most pressing public health needs: healthy, affordable food in underserved communities. The proposed enterprises must have served communities with limited availability to healthy foods, be tailored to the particular assets and challenges in the communities, and must be developed in consultation with target communities. Proposals were judged by a panel of experts in business, food and local government. Teams competed for $25,000 in start-up funds and other business support services.
The document summarizes healthy corner store initiatives in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Seattle/King County. It describes the goals and strategies of projects in each location, including increasing availability and sales of healthy foods, improving store operations, and promoting products. Key lessons highlighted are using a collaborative, evidence-based community approach, addressing both supply and demand, and employing simple and cost-neutral strategies. Policy support is also discussed as important for systems change.
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This document summarizes a research study that analyzed differences in price and quality of foods between full-service supermarkets and convenience stores in Cleveland, Ohio. The researcher visited 10 stores (5 convenience stores and 5 supermarkets) and recorded price and quality data for 38 grocery items. Results showed foods tended to be more expensive at convenience stores, and supermarkets offered a wider selection and more organization. The study highlights lack of affordable, healthy food options in inner-city Cleveland neighborhoods.
This document provides an overview of a Healthy Corner Store Project toolkit created by Sustainable Long Island. The project aims to improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities by partnering with corner store owners. Key aspects of the toolkit include conducting assessments of neighborhood demographics and store inventories, interacting with customers and the community through surveys and outreach, strategically partnering with store owners by providing incentives and support, and monitoring the program's impact through sales tracking and evaluations. The toolkit also outlines successful features of similar programs in other cities that could be replicated, such as increasing healthy product selection and making those products more prominent. If implemented properly using the guidance in this toolkit, the project seeks to create healthier food environments and communities.
Presentation about the Community and Regional Food Systems project given at the 2013 Wisconsin Local Food summit.
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This presentation is about the Healthy Choices program and the Grocery Store initiative
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Audio: https://goo.gl/WMFWhp
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The document summarizes healthy corner store initiatives in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Seattle/King County. It describes the goals and strategies of projects in each location, including increasing availability and sales of healthy foods, improving store operations, and promoting products. Key lessons highlighted are using a collaborative, evidence-based community approach, addressing both supply and demand, and employing simple and cost-neutral strategies. Policy support is also discussed as important for systems change.
Larsen_Massey_Can food hubs catalyse health and resilient peri-urban Food sys...latrobeuni
This document summarizes the progress made in developing a food hub in the City of Casey in Victoria, Australia. It began with a scoping study in 2011 and a VicHealth Innovation Grant in 2012 to further the project. Work included mapping local producers, businesses, and community services to understand supply and demand issues. Producers were concerned with urban growth, prices, and distribution while buyers wanted affordable, local options. Two assumptions that a wholesale model and demonstrating cost/ease would attract businesses were tested. Co-design with stakeholders led to a core group to trial local sourcing. Demand was to be tested through branding, pop-up markets, and meals. The Australian Food Hubs Network was also established to collaboratively develop
This document discusses improving human and environmental health in peri-urban areas through sustainable food systems. It notes that over half the world's population lives in cities, with rapid urbanization influencing consumption of less healthy, more environmentally intensive diets. The proposal is to work with 6 cities committed to reshaping their urban-peri-urban food systems through a research process involving system assessments, identifying and evaluating existing interventions, testing new interventions, and synthesizing results to scale up policies and tools. The goal is to improve diets, environmental health, social equity, and economic outcomes in both urban and rural areas.
The document summarizes the Minneapolis Healthy Corner Store Program, which aims to improve access to healthy foods in corner stores. It discusses how corner stores play an important role in food access but often lack healthy options. The program works with stores to increase healthy foods through procuring affordable produce, improving displays, marketing, and training owners. It outlines the process of selecting 10 stores, assessing needs through interviews and surveys, finding a produce supplier, and providing a sales training to help stores increase healthy food sales and affordability in the community.
This document summarizes a research study that analyzed differences in price and quality of foods between full-service supermarkets and convenience stores in Cleveland, Ohio. The researcher visited 10 stores (5 convenience stores and 5 supermarkets) and recorded price and quality data for 38 grocery items. Results showed foods tended to be more expensive at convenience stores, and supermarkets offered a wider selection and more organization. The study highlights lack of affordable, healthy food options in inner-city Cleveland neighborhoods.
This document provides an overview of a Healthy Corner Store Project toolkit created by Sustainable Long Island. The project aims to improve access to healthy foods in underserved communities by partnering with corner store owners. Key aspects of the toolkit include conducting assessments of neighborhood demographics and store inventories, interacting with customers and the community through surveys and outreach, strategically partnering with store owners by providing incentives and support, and monitoring the program's impact through sales tracking and evaluations. The toolkit also outlines successful features of similar programs in other cities that could be replicated, such as increasing healthy product selection and making those products more prominent. If implemented properly using the guidance in this toolkit, the project seeks to create healthier food environments and communities.
Presentation about the Community and Regional Food Systems project given at the 2013 Wisconsin Local Food summit.
Included is an overview of the project, discussion of the food system framework we're creating, examples from our community engagement projects (carrots to schools, lead contamination, food policy council evaluation, healthy corner stores), and a review of our project's values and outcomes (just, healthy, place-based, prosperous, and sustainable).
Community Food Assessment: A Piece by Piece Approachesheehancastro
This document summarizes the work of the Worcester Food & Active Living Policy Council. It discusses the council's history and projects from 2006-2012. Major projects included improving school meals, increasing SNAP participation, establishing farmers markets, and increasing school gardens. The council takes a piece-by-piece approach to community food assessments, using community assessments, project evaluations, and research from local universities. Findings include needs for policies around healthy food options, community gardens, grocery access, and locally grown food. Outcomes of the council's work include programs like farmers market permits and restaurant certification. Upcoming work focuses on sharing data, expanding urban agriculture, and increasing healthy options at local retailers.
This presentation is about the Healthy Choices program and the Grocery Store initiative
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Audio: https://goo.gl/WMFWhp
More info: http://foodfoundation.org.uk/blog/
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1. Healthy Corner Store Toronto Model
Presentation to Sustain Ontario—webinar, March 4, 2015
2. The Problem
Food retail in general still dominated by less healthy foods
Many lower income areas of Toronto lack sources of
healthy, affordable, diverse food
4. The Problem
Public Health’s mantra:
“making the healthy choice the easiest & most appealing”
must be applied to food retailers too
Currently very little support for independent small retailers
5. Waterloo, ON study found that females of average height
(5’5) weighed15.2lbs less and had 6.4cm smaller waist
circumference for every km increase in distance from their
home to nearest convenience store (adjusted coefficients).
Source: Minaker, L. (2013). Evaluating food environment assessment methodologies: a multi-level examination of associations
between food environments and individual outcomes. University of Alberta, PhD Thesis.
6. Compared to infrequent HCS shoppers, residents who visited
our HCS pilot store 2+ times/week consumed on a daily basis:
396 more calories
852mg more sodium, and
69% more added sugar
Frequent Convenience Store Shoppers
Notes: Based on pre-intervention survey, self-reported. Feb 2014, (n=194). No significant differences were found in frequent vs
infrequent supermarket shoppers.
7. High profit margin
Strong marketing support
Long shelf life
Free new fridge & displays
Attractive product design
Hassle-free distribution
Low risk
High existing customer demand
Financial incentives to sell more
In line with store’s image
No product training required
Some demand for product
Service to community
X Highly perishable
X Lower profit margins
X Distribution?
X Need training in product
handling
X Store not branded as F&V seller
X Past failed attempts to stock
X Funds to buy new equipment?
X Change management support?
Choices Facing Convenience Store Owners
10. Growing literature on food environments and how they influence diet
quality and health status over and above individual knowledge and
attitudes
The Context: Food environment research
(Glanz et al. 2005)
11. Key findings in the literature to date—
Methodological gaps in the literature
Inconsistency in how food environments are measured
Poor robustness of outcome measures (e.g., diet assessment)
Mostly cross-sectional associations
Few studies include multiple environmental features in the
same study
Few accompanying municipal policy assessments
Limited assessments of social context in which interventions are
implemented
The Context: Food environment research
(Minaker 2013; Mah, Minaker, Cook 2014 forthcoming)
12. The Context: Food environment research
• ‘Food deserts’ per se
• Lack of big supermarkets
• Big food retailers ignoring
prime locations in lower
income neighbourhoods
• Insufficient food production,
importation
For Toronto, the problem is NOT
The problem IS
• Poverty!
• Many business model,
infrastructure challenges
for small and medium
stores … enabling policy,
economic viability
• Cities (until recently) don’t
see food as their mandate
• And more …
13. Research in 3 lower income sites to evaluate
healthier food retail models
Healthy Corner Store pilot
Mobile Good Food Market site
Non-intervention control site for comparison
Pre-survey
Iterative pilot
interventions
Post-survey
Evaluation of
outcomes
PHAC-funded Food Retail Evaluation
14. Assets and strengths of the evaluation
Pre-post, controlled design
Mixed methods
Use of 24h diet recall (ASA24) vs. food frequency
Objective food environment measurement
Novel mobile data collection tool (NEMS
smartphone app)
Proximal metrics (changes in store, point-of-sale)
15. Shift purchases toward healthier food & displace junk
food sales revenue
Demonstrate potential for economically viable HCS
model
Create toolkit of solutions to support HCS transition
citywide
Healthy Corner Store Pilot Objectives
41. Nearby community agency support:
Links to resident groups
Local program connections
Community outreach workers to
promote store project
42. Initiative to link HCS &
food entrepreneurs
East Scarb Storefront,
Seed to Table
TPH Dietitian & HE
support
EcDev & Enterprise
Toronto
43. Unexpected Links
Landlord runs children’s morning snack program
Worked w TPH Dietitians to improve food quality
AND fruit now purchased through HCS pilot store
46. Current Challenges
Consistent high quality, affordable fruit & veg distribution
Expansion beyond F&V - how to find full inventory of healthier
fresh, prepared or frozen food distributors
Project currently has limited food retail/marketing expertise
Limited sales data – relying on 3rd party for POS system,
database management & sharing
47. Comments? Questions?
RESEARCH TEAM
Brian Cook – bcook@toronto.ca
Julie Sommerfreund – jsommer@toronto.ca
Leia Minaker – lminaker@uwaterloo.ca
Catherine Mah – catherine.mah@mun.ca
Margaret de Groh