Local And Just

Statistics Canada released the latest inflation data this week, and the results aren’t good for anyone filling up a grocery cart.  Over the last year, grocery prices have jumped nearly 5% – much higher than the price increases for other goods.  While 5% doesn’t sound like a lot, that’s an extra $7.50 a week for [...]

Whether it is food security programs in BC, farmers’ market infrastructure in Ontario, or northern community gardens in Manitoba, Canada’s provincial governments have developed a wide range of innovative programs and policies to address food security.  These are documented in the 2011 edition of Provincial Approaches to Food Security.    This annotated collection provides information about [...]

An exciting event happened after a recent blog I wrote on food policy and Winnipeg’s recent municipal election.  I received a comment!  I haven’t had a whole lot of those, so this felt like big news.  A momentous step forward.  Here’s some of what it said: Politicians are redundant and useless, you as an individual [...]

Last week, the big whigs of the federal Liberal Party headed out to Holland Acres, Ontario to announce the framework of their National Food Policy.  This, they pronounced, was a decisive moment for the country, the development of the first food policy at a national level.  Other parties have also put forward proposals on food [...]

Check out the newest F2F video short created with and for the Friends of Family Farmers in Oregon. I’ve been in Oregon for almost nine months now and have learned a great deal about direct farm marketing and local food in this part of the continent. Along the way, I have found myself in the [...]

By Colin Anderson – this post is syndicated from www.farmtoforkresearch.com I stumbled across a link to the United States Department of Agriculture’s YouTube site the other day. To my surprise, they had a channel dedicated to a new initiative launched earlier this year entitled “know your farmer, know your food”.  Click for YouTube channel. Ostensibly, the [...]