ArticleVoluntas : international journal of voluntary and nonprofit organizations2020
Examining Patterns of Food Bank Use Over Twenty-Five Years in Vancouver, Canada.
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- The nutritional quality of food parcels provided by food banks and the effectiveness of food banks at reducing food insecurity in developed countries: a mixed-method systematic review.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2022Pooled it
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- Rethinking 2S/LGBTQI+ food security with co-design: a study protocol.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Characterizing Trends in the Use of Food Donations and Other Food-Related Community-Based Social Assistance Programs in a Cohort of New Food Bank Users in Quebec, Canada.International journal of public health · 2024Article
- Food-related worry and food bank use during the COVID-19 pandemic in Canada: results from a nationally representative multi-round study.BMC public health · 2023Article
- The Pathways study: a cohort study of new food-aid users in rural, semi urban, and urban areas of Quebec, Canada.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Communal Labor in Ecovillages: Contradictions, Impasses, and Possibilities within the Notion of Self-sufficiency.Voluntas : international journal of voluntary and nonprofit organizations · 2022Article
- More food for thought: a follow-up qualitative study on experiences of food bank access and food insecurity in Ottawa, Canada.BMC public health · 2022Article
- Food Pantry Usage Patterns are Associated with Client Sociodemographics and Health.Journal of hunger & environmental nutrition · 2022Article
- Changes in accessibility to emergency and community food services during COVID-19 and implications for low income populations in Hamilton, Ontario.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2021Article
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Abstract
Food banks have grown substantially in Canada since the 1980s but little is known about patterns or predictors of engagement including frequency or duration of service use. This study examined food bank program data from a large food bank organization in Vancouver, Canada, finding that between January 1992 and June 2017, at least 116,963 individuals made over 2 million food bank visits. The majority of members were engaged for a short time and came for relatively few visits, but 9% of members engaged in longer-term episodic or ongoing usage over several years, accounting for 65% of all visits. Results from cluster and regression analyses found that documented health and mobility challenges, larger household size, primary income source, and older age were predictors of higher frequency and duration of service usage. Findings add to growing critical examinations of the "emergency food system" highlighting the need for better understanding of the broader social policies influencing food bank use.
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