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”
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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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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