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World Food Day. Why it matters and what it has to do with local and just food systems

October 16 is a big deal in foodie and food justice circles, and has been since its inception over 25 years ago in Italy. It is World Food Day, an event that celebrates the importance of food and that highlights the need to address the life threatening hunger and poverty that confronts almost a billion [...]

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A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND APPROACH TO LOCAL FOOD AND FOOD JUSTICE IN MANITOBA: Welcome and well come!

A FIRST-OF-ITS-KIND APPROACH TO LOCAL FOOD AND FOOD JUSTICE IN MANITOBA: Welcome and well come!

YES, we did it!!! It took us 18 months, 23 meetings, and about 2000 coffees to give birth to our localANDjust funding proposal that we just submitted to SSHRC (Social Science and Humanities Research Council of the federal government). We have about a 30% chance of success; about the same chance that there is is [...]

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