High food prices are a systemic issue, and government should prioritize strengthening food system infrastructure rather than opening public grocery stores.
- Assistant Professor, Eakin Chair in Critical Qualitative Health Research Methodology, University of Toronto
Publicly accessible gardens are an essential part of our food system. It’s important for policymakers to understand that growing food in city gardens is central to health, food security and culture.
Plants support human health not only in terms of providing food, oxygen and shade. Our relationships with plants facilitate political decisions and actions that support health in the city.
An abundance of unhealthy food choices in neighbourhoods is called a food swamp. But since swamps are actually wetlands and good for public health, we should choose a new term.
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