Provincial / Territorial Networks

Network group
English

Each quarter, Food Secure Canada teleconferences with representatives of provincial and regional food security networks and organizations.

Local Sustainable Food Systems Network

Network group
English

The Local and Sustainable* Food Systems Network unites organizations across Canada to strengthen and improve local and regional food systems.

Arviat, Nunavut Youth Trade Kraft Dinner For 'Country Food'

Food News

The Arviat Wellness Committee is running a Young Hunters Program, where young adults teach eight- to ten-year-olds how to hunt small game, and a food sciences program at John Arnalukjuak, which aims to teach teens which plants they can grow in greenhouses and which are native to the Arctic.

Food Literacy
Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods

Universal School Nutrition for Canada: Let’s Join the Rest of the World

Food News

FoodShare Executive Director Debbie Field and Anthony Winson, Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at Univesity of Guelph, discuss why Canada needs to join the majority of countries in the world in implementing a children's food policy and what is needed to make this successful.

 

Children and Schools
Food Literacy
Right to Food

FoodShare's Recipe for Change

Resource
Embedded Video

FoodShare is focusing on programs for children and schools to foster both social and food systems change.

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Literacy

FoodShare's Work in Schools and Childhood Nutrition

Resource

FoodShare Toronto created the model for student nutrition programs in the city of Toronto, which works hand-in-hand with the Field to Table Schools program. A discussion of FoodShare's other school-based work is summarized.

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Environments

A Fresh Crunch in School Lunch: The BC Farm to School Guide

Resource
File / Document

This guide was developed to support communities in their F2S endeavours. It provides practical information, tips, and tools for developing a local program that complies with provincial and federal health regulations and is sensitive to the diversity of schools throughout BC.

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Literacy

Farm to Cafeteria: BC Communities Share Paths to Success

Resource

<div>Following a brief overview of Farm to Cafeteria history and concepts, 5 stories&nbsp;</div><div>from the field are shared. These stories are drawn from every corner of British Columbia, highlighting the many paths communities have travelled to bring healthy, local, and sustainable foods to students, patients, and staff.</div>

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Literacy

Farm to Cafeteria Canada Strategic Plan

Resource
File / Document
Farm to Cafeteria Canada is a national network that promotes, supports and links farm to cafeteria programs, policy and practice from coast to coast to coast. The organization has developed a strategy to link and 
further the Farm to Cafeteria movement in Canada. 
Children and Schools
Food Literacy
Food Sovereignty

Farm to School: Stories from the Field in Greater Vancouver

Resource
File / Document

An overview of Greater Vancouver’s first six Farm to School programs. Learn about the people, their schools, and their  successes and challenges implementing Farm to School programs. 

Children and Schools
Food Literacy
Food Sovereignty

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