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Thursday, April 5, 2018
On Friday March 23, 2018 CFICE and Food Secure Canada co-presented Governing A Food Policy for Canada: Challenges and opportunities for innovation. Featuring leading academic, industry, civil society and government thinkers, the panel presentation explored the challenges and opportunities surrounding the development of Food Policy for Canada,... More
Tuesday, March 27, 2018
by Ethan Walker, CFICE Communications Research Assistant Back in February, you may have seen the announcement that Food Secure Canada (FSC) won a government contract to coordinate a Northern Food Systems Study funded by the Department of Indigenous and Northern Affairs Canada (INAC). Typically, government contracts are given to academic... More
Wednesday, February 28, 2018
Original article posted February 7 by Food Secure Canada Food Secure Canada, in collaboration with a pan-Canadian network of researchers and community partners with expertise in Northern food security and sustainable food systems, is undertaking a study to synthesize research and knowledge on the state of food systems and food security in the... More
Wednesday, February 14, 2018
Nourish: The Future of Food in Health Care is a collaborative project led by the McConnell Foundation in partnership with Food Secure Canada (FSC), HealthCareCAN, Health Care Without Harm, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and other emerging partners. Nourish seeks to host a Health System Impact Fellow (2018) being funded by the Canadian... More
Friday, February 2, 2018
Roots to Harvest is a small, grassroots organization and every position involves elements of organizational development and maintenance. We aim to foster a culture that is transparent, inclusive, progressive, and productive. As staff, we work collaboratively, we work hard, we do what needs to be done, and we try to keep the big picture in... More
Wednesday, December 20, 2017
Indigenous people occupy a delicate and critical space in relation to food security and food system research, and far too often such research has been rejected by Indigenous communities as disrespectful of their culture or even downright exploitive. In “British Columbia,” cross-cultural dialogue has been embraced by the BC Food Systems Network... More
Tuesday, December 19, 2017
Our partners in the Community-Campus Engagement Brokering (Food Sovereignty) working group have been busy this year advocating for a National Food Policy in Canada. They have also been busily writing up the lessons learned from this work in a new journal article titled A people-centred approach to food policy making: Lessons from Canada’s... More
Monday, December 18, 2017
Originally posted by Food Secure Canada, Dec. 13, 2017. Read the full article here. On December 11, the Standing Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food released its report on A Food Policy for Canada, following several months of witness testimony and submissions from a variety of stakeholders, including Food Secure Canada and several of its... More
Friday, December 1, 2017
Everyday Experts explains how knowledge built up through first-hand experience can help solve the crisis in the food system. It brings together fifty-seven activists, farmers, practitioners, researchers and community organisers from around the world in 28 original chapters to take a critical look at attempts to improve the dialogue between people... More
Wednesday, November 22, 2017
CFICE Academic Co-lead Charles Levkoe has been featured in several news articles and interviews recently with the roll out of a new food security pilot program at Lakehead University. The program is being funded through a grant provided to Meal Exchange by the Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Security. The goal of... More
Thursday, November 16, 2017
Food Secure Canada (FSC) is looking for a coordinator for an ambitious three-year project Vision 2020: Convening Conversations and Tabling an Agenda of Solutions for a Food Secure Canada. The coordinator will be responsible for building, leading and supporting a Community of practice on food security, as well as creating a framework for a... More
Monday, October 23, 2017
In this journal article titled Engaged Pedagogy and Transformative Learning in Graduate Education: A Service-Learning Case Study, the authors use a case study of a graduate-level service-learning course at the University of Toronto to assess the challenges associated with service-learning and highlight opportunities for students, faculty,... More
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