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Member Projects and Campaigns

On this page we highlight campaigns and projects of organizational members of Food Secure Canada.

Local Food Plus launched Buy to Vote, asking people to shift $10 a week to local sustainable food.
 
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network (CBAN) thanks supporters for their role in a victory on GM Labelling.
 
Sustain Ontario’s website features research by FSC steering committee member Tammara Soma on Protected Designation of Origin Labeling.
 
 
National Farmers Union provides the text of the proposed EU - Canada free trade agreement that threatens farmers’ rights.
 

April 2010 

Canadian Physicians for Aid and Relief ‘s initiative Putting Farmers First, and their travelling exhibit, Foodprints:Edible Environments, Sustainable Gardens, were part of Canada Blooms in Toronto in March.
 
More than 70 environmental, health, and social and environmental justice organizations have signed on to ETC Group ‘s open letter opposing the Asilomar climate engineering conference that was held in California in March.
 
A Canadian Foodgrains Bankvideo helps you meet their staff and learn how they would make the world a better place to live.  CFGB is a sponsor of a June 21-25 Canadian School of Peacebuilding course: Our Contested Food System: Cultivating A Just Peace.
 
Sustain Ontario’s website is bursting with new information about local food and farms in Ontario.
 
Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador has new food basket info, notes from their teleconference series and employment opportunities on their site.
 

March 2010

Food Secure Saskatchewan is promoting several March and April events across SK.

 
Nutrition Month (March) highlights the benefits of choosing foods that are grown and produced close to home. A project of Dieticilans of Canada.
 
Canadian Foodgrains Bank wants you to bring your faith to the G8/G20 as part of a multi-faith campaign focused on the Millennium Development Goals.
 

ETC Group leads protest against Asilomar International Conference on Climate Intervention Technologies: a long list of civil society organizations and social movements has expressed deep concerns that the upcoming conference on Geo-engineering in Asilomar is "moving us down the wrong road too soon and without any speed limit." Read the letter.

Meal Exchange and ReliefWorks are working with Muslim youth across Canada to raise awareness and funds to fight hunger in the Feed Me Winter Campaign.

 
Canadian Biotechnology Action Network asks you to help stop GE alfalfa by writing the U.S. Department of Agriculture by March 3. More info here.
 
ETC Group  says “geoengineers bid to establish voluntary testing regime must be opposed”. Read:  Top-down Planet Hackers Call for Bottom-up Governance 
 
Food sovereignty is the theme of Jottings, USC Canada ‘s latest newsletter, Sustainable, local agriculture is the key to ending food poverty, say UNDP authors in Brazil. Read more here.
 
Canadian Foodgrains Bank offers workshops on climate change and hunger in April in southern Ontario.

Beyond Factory Farming asks you to “think, eat, act” for antibiotic-free food.

 

February 2010

Pat Mooney, Director of the ETC Group, has resigned from the FAO steering committee on Biotech, saying it is hopelessly biased in favour of the biotech industry.

 

January 2010

The Peoples Food Policy Project received 270 policy proposals from about150 groups by their December deadline.  Contributors will receive drafts in February; others get a peek in April. Final proposals are slated for release at FSC’s assembly in Montreal in November.

Congratulations to Local Food Plus, honoured by the Tides Foundation in December as one of Canada’s top ten innovative charities. Learn about  all ten organizations, or see the reasons LFP was chosen, including snappy one minute videos.

ETC Group has published two new reports: Who will Feed Us: Questions for the Food and Climate Crisis, and Retooling the Planet, a new ETC group report on geoengineering.

USC Canada  has gathered resources on

Food, Farming and Climate Change, and is promoting the UN’s

International Year of Biodiversity in 2010

 

Dieticians of Canada released The Cost of Eating in BC 2009 in December.  Access the report here.

 


 

 

 

Food Secure Saskatchewan is promoting several March and April events.

 

 
Dieticians of Canada's  Nutrition Month (March) highlights the benefits of choosing foods that are grown and produced close to home.

 

Canadian Foodgrains Bank wants you to bring your faith to the G8/G20 as part of a multi-faith campaign focused on the Millennium Development Goals.