Sociology @AcadiaU, studies food insecurity, poverty, health equity, and social policy. Author -Out of Milk: Infant Food Insecurity in a Rich Nation (UBC Press)
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
⚠️Food insecurity doesn’t start in adulthood. It begins during pregnancy, and affects a child before they’re even born
Join us for a powerful webinar🌐:
“Food insecurity in the first 2001 days”
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visit our website🔗 bit.ly/4lnsLnG or
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
We are celebrating another accolade this week. Our co-founder, Dr Rosie McNee receives the Faculty of Public Health Littlejohn Gairdner Award 2025. Rosie has been recognised for her work contributing to tackling maternal and infant food insecurity in Scotland.
#TeamFeed
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
⚡New release!⚡
@CCPANS 2024 Report Card on Child and Family Poverty in Nova Scotia finds the highest single-year increase of child poverty rates in 35 years. Nova Scotia still has the highest child poverty rate in Atlantic Canada.
Read the report➡️policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Report finds Nova Scotia’s child poverty rate among highest in Canada
halifax.citynews.ca/2024/12/…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Outlets across the Maritimes are covering the Child and Family Poverty Report Card, which records the highest single-year increase in child poverty since 1989 & provides recommendations for eradicating child & family poverty:policyalternatives.ca/news-r…
#NSpoli #childpoverty
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
It's critical to focus on the particular challenges faced by children under 5 and the devastating reality that a quarter of these children are food insecure. The first priority must be to address the key driver of families' poverty (lack of income) through a
#CashFirst approach.
The @EduPolicyInst has warned children under five are 25% more likely to experience food poverty than older children and it’s driving obesity and mental health crises.
It can also affect education – food poverty is associated with worse cognitive development, maths and vocabulary skills. Find out more. ⬇️
bigissue.com/news/social-jus…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
📣NEW REPORT📣
The 2024 National Report Card, “Ending Child Poverty: The Time Is Now,” is out now. The report is an urgent call to action, putting forward 50+ recommendations for #endingpoverty in Canada, once and for all. Read it now: campaign2000.ca/ending-child… #TimeIsNow #cdnpoli
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Tune in to RTE1 on Monday 18th Nov to hear @Kennedy_ails and I speak with @KathrionaDev about infant and young child feeding in emergencies. Very excited to start disseminating the findings of this @hea_irl funded study next year. #iycfe #foodsecurity
🍼🤱🧑🍼👶Can we prepare plans for feeding babies & young infants during national emergencies? In Monday's @10Things_ToKnow About #FoodSecurity, @KathrionaDev meets @WeAreTUDublin's @LizOSullivanPhD & @Kennedy_ails (& lots of adorable babies!) to discuss their hugely important #NorthSouthResearchProgramme project 🌍
📺Mon 18th Nov, 8.30pm @RTEOne
@hea_irl @Researchirel @IrishResearch @teagasc @MarineInst @BordIascMhara @EPAResearchNews @EPAIreland @MetEireann @NewDecadeFilms @rte
#10thingstoknowabout #scienceweek #nsrp
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Affordable Housing & Homelessness Working Group and the Strait Richmon Housing Matters Coalition partnered with Cape Breton University to publish a new report showing a 72% increase in homelessness across eastern Nova Scotia since 2021: rentalhousingresearch.ca/wp-…
#NSpoli
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Thanks @uoftmedicine for this feature! Have you heard of the Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program?
Across Canada, the CPNP provides important perinatal nutrition support to families navigating challenging life circumstances--but funding has *not* increased in over two decades
Survey by @UofT researchers finds challenges and resilience in Canada Prenatal Nutrition Program. Read the story: bit.ly/40ccYk4
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Shocking impact of food insecurity on pregnancy revealed 😨 chroniclelive.co.uk/news/hea…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Happy Tenth Birthday Canadian Food Studies!
#HappyBirthday
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
Old habits die hard: The need for feminist rethinking in global food and agricultural policies
Andrea M. Collins
#Gender #Food #Land #GlobalGovernance #AgriculturalInvestment
canadianfoodstudies.uwaterlo…
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Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
We are hosting our first conference on October 22nd 2024 in the UK! 🇬🇧 Join us! Abstract deadline 8th July!
Expert keynote speaker⭐️⭐️ @balaraia from @UCBerkeley Public Health talking about food insecurity in pregnancy
research.ncl.ac.uk/nourishin…… #NFN
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
For some? Why not free for every student?
@BeckyDruhan said 256 schools were selected for Phase 1. The cost of buying lunch will be based on individual circumstances. “It's affordable for everyone & we know for some that will mean free."
#nsed #nspoli cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scot…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
"With new data showing 2.1 million children living in a food-insecure household in 2023, it is unconscionable that the federal government has chosen to do nothing to make the child benefit a stronger safety net."
Read our new @IRPP commentary on reducing family food insecurity.
The recently announced national school food program won’t solve food insecurity for families.
Instead, as Tim Li and Valerie Tarasuk explain, action on the Canada child benefit is required to this end.
options-po.li/4abDXNM
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
CCPA-NS Director Christine Saulnier (@CSaulnierHfx) was on the @ToddVeinotte show on @CityNews957 today to talk about the high rates of poverty and food insecurity across Nova Scotia. #nspoli
Listen in here: halifax.citynews.ca/audio/th…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
"Seeing a 52% ⬆️ should be wake-up call needed for Nova Scotia government to understand just how many people are falling through gaps in our social safety net." @CSaulnierHfx via @taasha__15 @CityNewsHFX
Saulnier's #InformedOps @ bit.ly/3PHridi halifax.citynews.ca/2024/05/…
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Food bank teams imagine running community hubs without the emergency food element. What’s critical is clear commitment from policy-makers to income-focused actions to address the poverty driving people to need food or baby banks in the first place #CashFirst @IFAN_UK
Baby banks are different to food banks. Yes we are meeting huge demand but we’re also about normalising reuse of baby items that have a lot more life in them (& too often go to landfill). My ambition is @LittleVillageHQ becomes a parent sharing/reuse network not a crisis response
Dr. Lesley Frank retweeted
Nova Scotia needs midwives. There are currently only 16 funded positions and three practice sites, leaving most areas of the province needing access to midwifery care. Learn more and show your support hubs.li/Q02q--Py0 #novascotianeedsmidwives
