Local And Just

The Food Secure Canada Assembly offered a wealth of informative and inspiring forums & sessions spanning international topics like the Biomass Land Grab, to Northern & Indigenous Food Security/Sovereignty & Agricultural Sustainability related issues such as Fair Trade abroad & at home. During the Plenary: Weaving Social Movements: Food Sovereignty in Action, the formidable Colleen [...]

On January 5, the British government released Food 2030, a plan for agriculture and food in the UK.  It is the first such report in a developed nation in a very long time, and the first in Britain in fifty years.  The Globe & Mail introduces Food 2030 this way:  “Imported beef. Genetically modified potatoes. [...]

 USC Canada has released a new video short describing “the story of food”. The video largely outlines the decline of biodiversity in mainstream/industrial agro-food production systems. It touches on the downside of genetically modified crops, the plight of the family farm, climate change and hunger/obesity. The short video ends by encouraging consumers to ‘buy local, [...]