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Paying for Nutrition

7 Sep 2016

While rates of 70%.2 the Revised Northern Food Basket (RNFB) is designed to provide a more complete picture of the cost of a One of the major factors contributing to food basic nutritious food basket in northern regions, the insecurity in northern First Nations populations is National Nutritious Food Basket (NNFB) is often the elevated cost and affordability of food, whether due used as the food c [...] PHOTO: Serena LeBlanc 6 Paying for Nutrition: A Report on Food Costing in the North PROJECT HISTORY & GOALS The Paying for Nutrition project is a community/ The broad goals of the project are to: academic partnership between Food Secure Canada Develop guidelines that standardize the nutritious and four universities: the Food Action Research Centre food basket methodology in the North and explore t [...] Comparing the RNFB and the NNFB and Comparing Northern and Southern Canada One of the questions faced by the Paying for Nutrition items in the basket are accessed solely through the team was whether it was appropriate to compare the retail food environment, and in only one full-service costs of a nutritious diet between north and south. [...] Feedback from this costing purchase the items in the RNFB and to record the went into the project’s Methodology Guide to Food prices based on the receipt, not what was listed on the Costing in the North (Appendix A). [...] The average monthly cost of the RNFB for a family of four in the three on-reserve communities is $1,793.40, compared with $1,560.53 in Moosonee and $1,056.35 in Timmins.38 Weekly Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket for a Family of Four39 23 Paying for Nutrition: A Report on Food Costing in the North Monthly Cost of the Revised Northern Food Basket for a Family of Four40 The Cost of Additional
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Pages
70
Published in
Halifax, NS, CA

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