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Resources in the Spotlight
RESOURCES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
Policy Guide on Community and Regional Food Planning - A guide on community and regional food planning from the American planning association.
A Harvest of Heat: Agribusiness and Climate Change - How Six Food Industry Giants Are Warming the Planet - a 25 page resource from Agribusiness Action Initiatives, a global network.
Sustainability Explained. - a two minute animated video from Real Eyes, part of The Natural Step, a global network for education, research and sustainable development.
Community Supported Agriculture in Alberta - A directory to connect CSA farms and customers.
April 2010
Canada’s Health and Nutrition Atlas - Health Canada makes it easy to access information about the health and nutrition of Canadian, by indicators or by province.
Nanotechnology, No Free Lunch - an article by John Paulls of Australian National University looking at nanoparticles in the food industry.
Organic Agriculture, Climate Change and Food Security- IFOAM (International Federation of Organic Agriculture Movements) and IFOAM EU Group have three publications that raise awareness of the role of “high sequestration, low emission, food secure farming” in climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Future of Food: Scenarios for 2050 - this article from the Crop Science Society of America addresses challenges of adequately feeding a population of 9 billion by 2050, while preserving the agro-ecosystems from which other services are also expected.
Food and Population: How Many Can We Feed - videos of Nov. 20, 2009 conference sponsored by Science for Peace and Canadian Pugwash Group, featuring Brewster Kneen, Susan McDaniel, Robert Hoffman.
March 2010
Food Miles - lesson plans, games and activities for Grades K-8 from the Falls Brook Centre (NS) “to teach students about the food they eat and develop environmental citizenship”. More activities and links at FBC’s Food Miles Challenge.
Working Together for Local Food - Canadian Co-operative Association (CCA) report contains profiles and resources related to local food across Canada. Third in a series of reports.
Planning for Regional Food Systems - a Ontario Farmland Trust report with resources for rural planning and economic development at the region or county municipal level.
Effects of School Garden Experiences - Research from US indicates that school gardening may positively affect children’s vegetable consumption and more.
What’s on my Food? A searchable database by the Pesticide Action Network designed to make pesticide exposure more visible and understandable.
Dangerous Food Additives - iQ Advanced, an information marketing company (San Francisco) launches a free online consumer guide to harmful and toxic food additives.
Food Price Watch - World Bank group tracks domestic staple price increases globally and estimates that the impact on undernourishment, or hunger, has been as much as 8% in 2009.
Transformation for Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming citizenship - new chapter of electronic resource book with embedded videos, from International Institute for Environment and Development (UK).
February 2010
US Food Atlas The Economic Research Service of U.S. Department of Agriculture provides a spatial overview of a community’s ability to access healthy food and its success in doing so.
Food Policy Council List - Contact info for food policy councils across USA and some in Canada.
Healthy Eating for Workplaces - toolkit from the Region of Waterloo Public Health.
January 2010
The Ram's Horn is entering its 30th year of publication as a more-or-less monthly newsletter of food system analysis, by Brewster and Cathleen Kneen. The newsletter is available by subscription or free download from the website.
The Journal of Peasant Studies, Vol 37, Issue 1, Linking farmers' movements for advocacy and practice, features an article by Cathleen Kneen on the development of the food movement in Canada, entitled: Mobilization and convergence in a wealthy Northern country.
Food 2030 - The UK has published its vision of a strategy to enable food security for its citizens. Critics are concerned that despite the stated goal of sustainability, the plan leans heavily on genetic engineering and other technologies while ignoring the resilience of locally-focused, small-holder food provision in the face of climate change.
Organic Standards - the newly amended Canadian standards (45 pages) are available for purchase from the Canadian General Standards Board. Organic groups are lobbying to have them available free of charge.
Linking Public Health, Food Systems, and Sustainable Agriculture - This 10 page article from the July 2009 Journal for Food and Nutrition contains research and action priorities and recommendations from an April 2009 conference in Virginia, USA.
Animal Agriculture Shrinking in Ontario’s Greenbelt - This media release gives contact information for University of Guelph researchers who raise “a number of interesting questions regarding the viability of animal production in close proximity to a major urban area”.
Deconstructing Dinner listened in on the December 2009 meetings of Canada's Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food on the subject of genetically modified organisms (GMOs). You can hear Michel Arnold, Randy Holbeck, Gord Surgeoner, Devlin Kuyek, Terry Boehm and Peter Andrée in their December episode.