Engaging with food store owners from culturally diverse communities

LaSalle is a historically working class, highly industrialized, and isolated borough in the south-west of Montreal. Gentrification is leading to exclusion and disparities. The community partners determined that there is a need to assess how food retailers could engage underserved immigrant communities in the area. Dawson’s Food Justice & Sustainability Hub worked with community partners to create a map of retailers and develop an interview guide for food retailers. These tools, especially the interview guide, could be modified by different community groups to engage independent food retailers servicing cultural communities in further advancing food security in underserved neighbourhoods.

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