Food insecurity is a big problem in New Brunswick with reliable access to enough good-quality food beyond the reach of about 16-percent of residents.
A report called ‘Everybody Eats’ from the New Brunswick Food Security Action Network has identified four major themes to address the issue after a public engagement process.
Optimizing our agricultural potential is one and executive director Laura Reinsborough says right now we’re only farming 11-percent of possible farmland.
“There was a lot of talk about how can we optimize that, how can we encourage more farmers, a lot of our farmers are aging out and don’t have succession plans. So that’s been a big topic lately,” says Reinsborough.
The other themes that came out from the conversations were education, awareness and food skills, physical access and the availability of healthy food, and equitable access to healthy food.
“The last thing we want is this report to sit on a shelf and gather some dust so we’ve designed it in a way that it should provoke some further action,” says Reinsborough.
One in five children in New Brunswick is living in a food-insecure household.
the NBFSAN releases the Everybody Eats “What We Heard” report! We are thrilled to share this with you.https://t.co/WPfCmqSZyB pic.twitter.com/2KshUFAGuW
— NBFSAN-RASANB (@NBFoodSecurity) June 22, 2018
