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Wednesday, January 20, 2016
By Carly Foubert, CFICE Volunteer Sharing the Table Manitoba is a CFICE community partner whose relationship with CFICE developed within the Community Food Security hub. It is a network of individuals ranging from food producers such as fishermen and women and farmers, to food consumers, with the aim of creating a space for discussion and... More
Monday, January 18, 2016
On January 12, 2015 CFICE's Community Food Security Co-Lead Charles Levkoe appeared on The Agenda with Steve Paikin and University of Toronto's Michael Ekers to discuss the use of unpaid labour by Canadian organic farmers. The question to be answered: How does the use of unpaid labour square with food movements focused on justice and... More
Friday, January 15, 2016
by Lily Haines, CFICE KMb RA Food Security means all people, at all times, have access to safe, sufficient and nutritious food. But for eight per cent of Canadians, food security does not exist. That’s 1.1 million households, according to Statistics Canada’s most recent 2011-2012 report. So how can communities do better? The statistics... More
Monday, January 11, 2016
This presentation was provided as a joint Food Secure Canada and CFICE webinar on June 16, 2013. The webinar provided attendees with the preliminary results of a CFICE Community Food Security Hub partnership project between the University of Waterloo and Waterloo Public Health. The presentation shares the stories of community members, students,... More
Learn more about the work of CFICE’s Community Food Security (CFS) Hub over the past year in their 2015 newsletter. This newsletter features stories about two CFS project partners, Sharing the Table Manitoba, and Paying For Nutrition, as well as a glance at the hub's future work.... More
Learn more about the work of CFICE's Community Food Security Hub and the partners with whom they work by browsing their 2014 newsletter! Jam packed with content about each of its partner projects, this newsletter will quickly bring you up-to-speed on all things relating to CFS hub research, work, and... More
Friday, December 18, 2015
by Amy Richardson, CFICE Communications RA The community of Mission, B.C. came together to vote for L.I.N.C. to win much deserved grants. In early December, within days of each other, Sherry Edmunds-Flett, Executive Director of L.I.N.C. Society, was notified that her cause had won $77,000 in grant money. L.I.N.C. received two sums of money:... More
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
by Omar Elsharkawy, CFICE Admin RA Boundary spanners are integral to the success of community-campus engagement (CCE). At CFICE (Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement), we are lucky to have several boundary spanners on our team. We see boundary spanners as people with the ability to bring together academics, community members, and... More
Monday, December 7, 2015
Produced by Dawn Morrison of the BC Food Systems Network Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty (a CFICE partner), this primer on Indigenous Food, Land and Heritage provides a brief background on the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, and provides information on Indigenous Land Ethic and Indigenous bio-cultural heritage in the... More
Friday, December 4, 2015
Abra Brynne, Director of Engagement and Policy at BC Food Systems Network and a CFICE Community Food Security hub partner, describes her experiences learning about how to decolonize food systems in this moving blog post, published December 3, 2015 on Rabble.ca. An excerpt from Abra Brynne’s article can be found below, along with a... More
Monday, November 23, 2015
On December 4th, between 10am and 1pm, CFICE members Peter Andrée (PI), Chris Yordy (volunteer researcher), and Omar Elsharkawy (Administrative RA) will join activist-academics from University of Ottawa, Carleton University, Meal Exchange’s Campus Food Systems Project and others at University of Ottawa for a workshop on community-campus food... More
Monday, November 16, 2015
For those interested in food politics looking for an introduction to the concepts of food sovereignty, food security, and land justice, the Student Federation at the University of Ottawa's Sustainable Development Centre is hosting an upcoming workshop to teach you! Facilitated by Omar Elsharkawy, this workshop is part of several that make up... More
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