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RESOURCES IN THE SPOTLIGHT
March 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.