Where’s the Food? Finding Out About Food in Your Community
One of the cornerstones of reaching community food security is the ability to measure and monitor food security at a neighbourhood, or community level. Food for All is bringing together individuals, groups and organizations in the Ottawa community by adapting and piloting a community food security assessment toolkit.
“Where’s the Food” helps communities to:
- Better understand their community food security;
- Decide on what actions to take to improve their community food security; and
- Monitor whether or not their community food security improves over time.
Food for All has found a number of different assessments that have been used in other communities and has adapted bits and pieces from all of those toolkits into a tool that is relevant to Ottawa. The toolkit is called “Where’s the Food? Finding Out About Food in your Community”.
Where’s the Food Assessments
Sandy Hill, 2010
In Sandy Hill, the results of the Where’s the Food research were compiled into a summary document, called: Where’s the Food? A Compilation of Research Gathered with the Food Security Assessment
Fitzroy Harbour, 2010-2011
In Fitzroy Harbour, community members did a survey of the kinds of food actions area residents would like to see. Read the full results here.
Barrhaven, 2011-2012
The Barrhaven Where’s the Food team produced a final report of findings in the Barrhaven community. Click here to download a PDF version of the final report, titled “Where’s the Food: A Compilation of Food Resources for Barrhaven”. There is also a one-page summary of this report.
Centretown, 2012
A team in Centretown is currently working with the Where’s the Food toolkit to research food issues in Centretown.
Vanier-Overbrook, 2012
A team in Vanier-Overbrook is currently working with the toolkit to research food issues and resources in the Vanier-Overbrook area.
Please contact us if you would like more information about any of these projects.