Local And Just

Thanks to the travel grant awarded by MAFRA, I was able to attend and contribute to the Models of Indigenous Development conference that took place in Chiapas, Mexico in 2011. The conference was an amazing opportunity to take a critical look at colonial approaches to indigenous planning and development. We also shared information regarding indigenous [...]

March 28, 2011 – The Manitoba Alternative Food Research Alliance (MAFRA), based at the University of Manitoba, has announced funding for thirteen community food projects across urban, rural and northern Manitoba. MAFRA received over 40 proposals from across Manitoba. The projects ranged from proposals for urban agriculture projects, to community food assessments. “It was overwhelming [...]

Have you been to talk on food justice issues lately?  Have you attended a conference?  A presentation?  If you have, you are probably pretty convinced that food justice is an important issue.  Indeed, nearly all of the events that I have attended on food issues have been populated predominantly by the converted, those who are [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]