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Food bank use in Ontario

Feed Ontario

Hunger Report 2025

Feed Ontario’s annual report on food bank use in Ontario, covering April 2024 to March 2025 and how use has changed since 2019.

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Household food insecurity in Canada

PROOF, University of Toronto

Household food insecurity, 2025

24.0% of people in Canada lived in a food-insecure household in 2025, about 9.8 million people. PROOF, University of Toronto, 2026.

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The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste

Second Harvest

Updated report, 2024

8.8 million tonnes of edible food is wasted in Canada every year. Second Harvest and Value Chain Management International, 2024.

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Food bank visits in March 2025 were 99.4% higher than in March 2019, nearly double

Food Banks Canada

HungerCount 2025, overall findings

Food banks in Canada recorded close to 2.2 million visits in March 2025. Food bank visits in March 2025 were 99.4% higher than in March 2019, nearly double. A third of food bank visits in March 2025 were by children. Food Banks Canada, HungerCount 2025.

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Canada has 189,874 farms

Statistics Canada, 2021 Census

Census of Agriculture

Canada has 189,874 farms. Statistics Canada, Census of Agriculture 2021. The food exists. The distance between the field and the food bank is the problem.

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Second Harvest, Statistics Canada, PROOF at the University of Toronto, Public Health Ontario, Food Banks Canada.

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Food bank use in Ontario

Household food insecurity in Canada

The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste

Food bank visits in March 2025 were 99.4% higher than in March 2019, nearly double

Canada has 189,874 farms

Food bank use in Ontario

Household food insecurity in Canada

The Avoidable Crisis of Food Waste

Food bank visits in March 2025 were 99.4% higher than in March 2019, nearly double

Canada has 189,874 farms

Fruit and vegetable production in Canada

Ontario household food insecurity

Global food waste, 2022

Environment and Climate Change Canada, on produce never harvested

Ontario’s food and organic waste

Landfills and methane in Canada

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