Archives: food security

Monday, April 24, 2017

Purchasing Power: 10 Lessons on Getting More Local, Sustainable, and Delicious Food in Schools, Hospitals and Campuses

Food Secure Canada and the J.W. McConnell Family Foundation are jointly releasing the report Purchasing Power: 10 Lessons on Getting More Local, Sustainable, and Delicious Food in Schools, Hospitals and Campuses. The lessons profile what we’ve learned about how to shift institutional food purchasing to sustainability–from defining local, to... More

Thursday, June 23, 2016

Paying for Nutrition: Challenges in assessing food environments in northern and remote communities in Canada

Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement's (CFICE) Community Food Security Hub helped fund a project to address food insecurity in northern and remote communities in Canada. In collaboration with Food Secure Canada, Mt. St. Vincent University, and Lakehead University, this project renewed the work on food costing in Northern Canada so... More

Thursday, September 24, 2015

CFICE’s Peter Andree to speak at Dalhousie Conference on GMOs and Poverty

On Friday October 2nd, CFICE's Principal Investigator Peter Andree will be participating in a discussion titled "Genome Canada’s Genomics, Public Policy and Society (GPS)". This conversation will explore the emerging debate regarding the role of GM technology in Canada's work to assist developing countries with achieving food security... More

Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Videos: Putting Our Money Where Our Mouths Are: The Federal Budget and Food Security

On February 4th, 2013 Community First: Impacts of Community Engagement (CFICE) officially launched its seven year, SSHRC supported research project aimed at strengthening communities through action research on best-practice community-campus engagement with a panel discussion Putting our money where our mouths are: Food Security and the Federal... More

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