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Manitoba received mixed grades for its performance in the Conference Board of Canada's first provincial food report card.

The province scored an A for food safety but was dragged down by a D — worst among the 10 provinces — in household food security in the 157-page study released Thursday.

The document, which compiled 63 performance metrics to evaluate overall performance, comes on the heels of the conference board's national food-strategy proposals in 2014 and the federal government directing the Department of Agriculture and Agri-Food to lead the development of a Canadian food policy, said one of the study's authors, Jean-Charles Le Vallée.

"We're providing this report as a benchmark, a tool to start the discussion. It is a portrait of today (to assist) government to set targets, industry to set targets," he said by phone from his office in Ottawa. "Our goal... is to help industry to grow... but at the same time, food has to be safe, to be nutritious, people have to have access to food, you want it to be produced sustainably."