Halifax Food Policy Alliance

Food Counts Halifax Food Assessment: The alliance is co-chaired by Public Health Services and the Ecology Action Centre, and its report was researched for two years, according to The Chronicle Herald. Among the findings are that Halifax has the highest reported household food insecurity among 33 major urban centres in Canada, and one in five households has trouble affording healthy food. That one of the conclusions of Food Counts: Halifax Food Assessment, a report released Wednesday by the Halifax Food Policy Alliance. A large crowd attended the release of the report at the Halifax Seaport Farmers’ Market. African-Nova Scotian communities, First Nation communities and immigrant communities … have a more difficult time accessing healthy food. We do know from the evidence that there are certain populations that are most susceptible to food insecurity, unable to access or afford the quality and quantity of food for good health, said report co-author Valerie Blair. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.