Toronto Food Strategy

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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.

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Toronto Food Strategy
Bring Food Home

Barbara Emanuel
November, 2013

Toronto Food Strategy
 Spearheaded by TPH to foster healthy & sustainable
food system

City of Toronto’s Existing Food Connections

Toronto Food Strategy Approach
 Build/strengthen networks by doing
things together
 Leveraging resources
 Top down & bottom up strategies
for change
 Research & evaluation

Food Environment Mapping

 Better understanding of
spatial relationships
among income,
food access, etc
 Changing the discussion
on “food deserts”

Few Healthy Affordable
Food Sources
Lack of Green Spaces
Few Amenities in Walking Distance
Inadequate access to public transit

Low Household Income

Lotherton Pathway, Toronto – Closest discount grocery  2.5km

Findings So Far
 Problem in Toronto is NOT quantity of food stores but
quality of retail in many areas
 Less healthy food retail envir’t common across Toronto
 Many lower income areas have low MRFEI but income
does not predict food envir’t score
 Schools more likely to have fast food within 500m/1km
vs surrounding areas

Explanations?
 Density in problem areas
doesn’t fit with traditional
big food retail models (but
they’re trying to adapt)
 “Progressive” regulatory
legacies can impede
alternate food distribution
models today
 Little support for small food
enterprises

Healthier
Corner
Stores

Working with Existing
Small Food Retailers

 Approx 8 convenience stores in Toronto for
every supermarket

Insights from Research So Far

 Wide variation in small food
store models
 Many practical barriers for
owners to integrating healthier
foods
 Residents value customer
service highly

Insights from Research So Far
 Very little institutional support exists for small-scale food retail
 Many store owners keen to serve community, provide healthier
foods
 Most successful examples we saw prioritized positive
relationships with customers

 Examples of apt tower communities in Germany
Source: ERA Architects (2010). Tower Neighbourhood Renewal in the Greater Golden Horseshoe

Food Skills & Employability Training
 Integrating food safety, nutrition
& employment training skills

Locally Grown World
Crops

MANY OF THESE
VEGGIES CAN BE
GROWN HERE

Policies on Access to Land & Infrastructure

Community Food Procurement

 Researching solutions
for more cost-effective
purchasing of
healthier foods by
community agencies &
City programs

Barbara Emanuel, Manager
Toronto Food Strategy
bemanuel@toronto.ca
416-392-7464

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.

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