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Cultivating Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Food Systems in the North: A Review and Recommendations

Cultivating Food Sovereignty and Sustainable Food Systems in the North: A Review and Recommendations

Article

The purpose of the study was to develop a series of recommendations for how the federal government could better support the development of sustainable and resilient food systems in the North.

Northern Food Network Webinar Series featuring YIC4

Webinar/Podcast

June 18th - 1pm-2:30 EST - The Northern Food Network will be hosting a webinar featuring presentations from Yukon Indigenous Community Climate Change Champions (YIC4).

Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

[SURVEY] Mapping Sustainable Northern Food Systems

Article
Agriculture
Traditional / Country Foods
Food Systems

As part of FSC's Sustainable Northern Food Systems Study, we are conducting a survey to identify and map key assets and infrastrcutre that make up Northern food systems.

[WEBINAR] Stories of sustainable food in Northern Canada

Webinar/Podcast

The Northern Food Network is continuing with its Webinar Series highlighting innovative projects, organizations and initiatives working to address food security and build stronger sustaianble food systems in the North. 

Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods
Food Systems

Le RAD coordonne une étude sur les systèmes alimentaires durables du Grand Nord

Food News

Le RAD, en collaboration avec un réseau pan-canadien de chercheurs et de partenaires communautaires ayant une expertise au niveau de la sécurité alimentaire du Grand Nord, et en systèmes alimentaires durables, entreprend une étude de synthèse sur l'état des systèmes alimentaires et de la sécurité alimentaire dans le Nord. 

Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods
Food Systems

Food Secure Canada to coordinate Study on Northern Sustainable Food Systems

Food News

FSC, 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 North...

Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods
Food Systems

Northern Food Network Webinar Series: Core Themes on Northern Food Security

Webinar/Podcast

https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_6J5HbuyqTLWdA-hYmInhYQThe Northern Food Network will be hosting bi-monthly webinars focused around some core themes of Northern food security.

 

Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods

Paying for Nutrition Report: the North West Company responds

Article
Food Sovereignty
Traditional / Country Foods

In response to the report Paying for Nutrition - a report on food costing in the North, the North West Company sent a letter to Food Secure Canada. It contains useful information and so we are publishing it.

Energy Project Threatens Food Security in Canada’s North (Opinion: National Observer)

Article
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters
Water and Fisheries

The Supreme Court started hearing the case brought by the small Inuit community of Clyde River to block seismic testing (oil exploration) that threatens marine life in their local waters, on November 30 2016.

Food Sovereignty Thursday at Resetting the Table - Highlights of the Opening Plenary

Article
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods

FSC’s 9th Assembly was launched with a public event, Decolonizing the Table: An Evening on Indigenous Food Sovereignty, on October 13.

Harvesting solutions Sunday at Resetting the Table – Highlights of the day

Article
Right to Food
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

What better way to celebrate World Food Day 2016 than by listening to Dr. Carolyn Bennett, Minister of Indigenous and Northern Affairs, tell the Canadian food movement that Nutrition North needs to be “completely overhauled” and that developing the new national food policy needs a “holistic…whole of government approach”?

Paying for Nutrition: A Report on Food Costing in the North

Article
Hunger and Poverty
Right to Food
Food Sovereignty

According to a report released by Food Secure Canada, the average cost of groceries for a month in Attawapiskat in June 2015 was $1909 compared to, for instance, $847 in Toronto. On-reserve households in Ontario’s northeast need to spend over 50% of their median income to buy nutritious food, whereas those in Toronto need to spend 10%.

First Nations, Métis and Inuit must be a part of shaping the new food policy

Article
Right to Food
Indigenous Food Matters
Democracy and Movements

Food Secure Canada and our members are pleased to see Minister MacAulay commit to including First Nations, Métis and Inuit (FNMI) peoples in the development of a national food policy. 

Changes to Nutrition North Canada voted down in parliament

Food News

JOSHUA DAVIDSON: A motion calling for urgent reform to the Nutrition North Canada food subsidy program was defeated in Parliament last week.

Right to Food
Indigenous Food Matters
Democracy and Movements

Dennis Bevington's Nutrition North proposal debated in Parliament

Food News

CBC NEWS: Today was Opposition day in Ottawa — a day where the NDP got to set the agenda — and they made it all about Nutrition North.

Right to Food
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

Nutrition North Subsidy coming to a grocery receipt near you

Food News

NUNATSIAQ NEWS: At the very same time Members of Parliament were debating an New Democratic Party proposal they say will improve the federal Nutrition North Canada June 4, the minister responsible for the freight subsidy issued a statement he says makes the program more accountable.

Right to Food
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

Why northerners’ unhappiness with food program will factor into election

Food News

Northerners’ dissatisfaction with Nutrition North Canada (NNC) promises to be a major factor in the 2015 federal election in the 10 ridings with isolated northern communities served by this program.

Hunger and Poverty
Indigenous Food Matters
Food Systems

Nutrition North Canada - the real expenditure record

Food News

FRED HILL + MICHAEL FITZGERALD: Among its many criticisms of Nutrition North Canada (NNC), the auditor general’s report released late last November chastised Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) for failing to implement the cost containment strategy that was a Treasury Board condition for program approval.

Right to Food
Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods

Hunger in Canada's Arctic

Food News

ALLIE JAYNES: Forty-six dollars for a bag of flour. Thirty-six dollars for 2.5 pounds of beef. Forty-five for a box of infant formula. That’s just a trip to the grocery store for many residents of northern Canada’s Nunavut territory, where some of the most basic necessities could set you back as much as a rib-eye steak in a swanky restaurant in southern Canada or the U.S.

Read the original article here.

Right to Food
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

Bevington, NDP announce proposal for Nutrition North subsidy program

Food News
CBC NEWS: Northwest Territories MP Dennis Bevington, along with a group of NDP MPs that included Romeo Saganash, Niki Ashton, Charlie Angus, Carol Hughes & Jonathan Genest-Jourdain, announced his party's proposal to fix the highly criticized Nutrition North food subsidy program this morning.
 
Right to Food
Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters

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