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Member Projects and Campaigns

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

March 2010

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.