Assembly Outline

Assembly 2010 Program Outline

Weaving Together Food Policy
and Community Action :
an agenda for change

All events were in the Jean-Brillant Building, 3200 Jean-Brillant St, University of Montreal, Montreal

For the full program in downloadable PDF format, click here.

Friday, November 26: Pre-Conference Events and opening keynotepanel:

EARTH GRAB: The rush to grow ‘biomass’ for fuels and industry will be worth $1/2 trillion – but won’t feed people, or stop climate change. Farm leaders from the Global South describe the reality and propose alternatives.

Featuring: for more information, click here.

Saturday, November 27th:

Panel: Weaving An Agenda: Food Sovereignty policy for Canada

Speakers:

Welcome - Cathleen Kneen (FSC Chair) and Elder Alex Sonny Diablo

Plenary Introduction "Weaving Food Policy" by Amanda Sheedy (Coordinator, People's Food Policy Project)

Benoit Girouard (Union Paysanne, on the Pronovost Commission into the Future of Agriculture in Quebec)

Lise Bertrand (Montreal Public Health)

Priscilla Settee (Professor of Native Studies, University of Saskatchewan and Board member, CCPA)

Wayne Roberts (former Manager, Toronto Food Policy Council)

Sunday, November 28th

Panel: Nourishing our Actions: Weaving Social Movements

Speakers:

Introduction by Andrea Peart (FSC Steering Committe, Health & Environment, Canadian Labour Congress)