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.
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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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.
Since ICLEI’s inception, urban resilience and sustainability have largely been framed in terms of climate change mitigation and adaption. But as food system scholars and practitioners know, food serves as a portal to those and so many other related socio-economic and environmental issues. And cities play a crucial role in achieving food security, optimizing health and advancing environmental sustainability. Food production and food access programs target predominantly urban populations; urban, peri-urban, and rural areas remain closely interrelated; and the municipal level proves the most effective and efficient for many food policies and programs to occur. Continue reading “Food Systems are Critical to Urban Resilience”
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”
City-Region Food Systems-Metrics Working Group Report
We are pleased to share the City-Region Food Systems/Metrics Report from our meeting in Scarborough, Toronto on June 21.
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