Food Policy

We need good food policy that involves cross-cultural collaboration, all levels of government, and reflects the needs of people and their communities. Find out how FLEdGE collaborators are working toward good food policy.

Food Counts: A Pan-Canadian Sustainable Food Systems Report Card

The Food Counts: A Pan-Canadian Sustainable Food Systems Report Card brings together already existing measures of social, environmental, and economic well-being to help researchers, policy makers, and practitioners examine food systems at the national level. Continue reading “Food Counts: A Pan-Canadian Sustainable Food Systems Report Card”

Food Systems are Critical to Urban Resilience

By Patricia Ballamingie
July 15, 2018

Thanks to the international networking of FLEdGE PI Alison Blay-Palmer, FLEdGE researchers and partners were invited to present a panel on Building resilient food systems: Policy across multiple scales at the ICLEI World Congress 2018, held in Montreal, June 20-22. Continue reading “Food Systems are Critical to Urban Resilience”

Road running through agricultural land

Mapping the Food Policy Landscape in Canada

Mapping the Food Policy Landscape is Canada is the result of a research collaboration between Food Secure Canada and Food: Locally Embedded, Globally Engaged (FLEdGE), led out of Wilfrid Laurier University’s Centre for Sustainable Food Systems.

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