Local And Just

This summer, MAFRA put out a communications questionnaire to find out what is happening here in Manitoba to communicate with people about food issues – and what people could see in the future.  The grand prize was a promotional video and the winner was the Organic Food Council of Manitoba.  You can see the video [...]

This video features two high impact local food initiatives that are highlighted as case studies. One community scale and one regional scale initiative are discussed in relation to the barriers that each faces as well as the positive outcomes that these programs generate in the battle for food justice.  These food initiatives were chosen based [...]

MAFRA is pleased to present a great video highlighting the U of M course ‘Living Rural Communities and Environments’ by participating student Sandy Anderson.  The video is viewable on the right hand side of the page, or you can watch it here. If you are interested in taking the course in 2010 contact Stef McLachlan [...]

 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, [...]