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When Community Food Security Isn’t Enough: Repairing the Poverty ‘Bridge’ in BC | Part II

In Part I of this series we spoke with Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Professor at the University of Toronto and Principal Investigator with the PROOF: Food Insecurity Policy Research program as well as with Trish Garner, Community Organizer with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition. This month, Valerie, Trish, and BC community food security practitioners explore the question: What is the place of community food security work in affecting individual and household food insecurity and poverty reduction?

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When Community Food Security Isn’t Enough: Repairing the Poverty ‘Bridge’ in BC | Part I

To start off the 2017 Homegrown Story series, the Gateway is taking a departure from our usual approach of profiling innovative food security programs from across the province and digging into the issue, and solutions, to the widespread food insecurity and poverty plaguing BC.

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