FSC Newsletter - 2012-06
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GENERAL NEWSLETTER 7 June 2012
Groups including Food Secure Canada Call for an Apology to the UN Special Rapporteur On May 30, Food Secure Canada, along with over one hundred other national and local organizations, as well as a long list of academics, sent Prime Minister Harper a letter expressing our indignation at the government's treatment of Olivier de Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, during his recent mission to Canada. Read the letter here (PDF). Add your name or the name or your organization (deadline 5pm EST, Friday, June 8). To read more on the issue: Feds urged to apologize to UN human rights expert, by Sarah Schmidt [The Gazette, May 30]
Powering Up! Food for the Future Food Secure Canada's 7th national Assembly November 1-4, 2012 in Edmonton, AB Call for Workshops and Presenters Canada’s food movement will gather in Edmonton from November 1-4 this year for its biennial feast of food and ideas. The theme – Powering Up: Food for the Future – reflects the need to place questions of energy, climate and long-term sustainability at the centre of how we think about, produce, and eat our food. This year we will be looking for workshops, training sessions, panellists, speakers and more to address the following themes (you can submit proposals on other themes as well): Food Justice, Energy and Power, and Resilience. Submit your proposal and find out more, and we hope to see you in Edmonton!
The UN visit is the perfect opportunity to put your community’s food issue on your MP's plate and ask how your MP is going to ensure the right to food in your community Meet with your MP. Book your appointment today! We want to know who you meet and what they say. Once you've met your MP, fill out this form and send it to us at MPlobby@foodsecurecanada.org or fill out the form on our website.
GRAIN’s groundbreaking research published for RIO+20 Pan-African publisher Pambazuka Press in collaboration with GRAIN, a small international non-profit that works to support small farmers, is to launch a vital text in the studies of food, land and climate, The Great Food Robbery: How corporations control food, grab land and destroy the climate. Available worldwide in May 2012, this publication marks the five-week countdown to Rio+20, the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development. PeaceMeal: Building a Culture of Peace Through Food Join PeaceMeal for a 4-day in-person workshop at the University of Toronto’s Transformative Learning Centre, June 18-21! For details and registration, please click here. Wheat board appeal tests democratic principles
Wednesday's hearings began with a failed attempt by the Friends of the Canadian Wheat Board advocacy group and others, including former wheat board directors, to quash Agriculture Minister Gerry Ritz's motion to appeal. The court ruled the appeal could proceed. Food System Development Practitioner survey The Food System Development Practitioner survey is cosponsored by American Farmland Trust (AFT), the Wallace Center at Winrock International, the Michigan State U. Center for Regional Food Systems (formerly the C.S. Mott Group for Sustainable Food Systems), and the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development (JAFSCD). These groups are surveying current or prospective food system development practitioners (including professionals and volunteers) to better understand their needs and opportunities. The results will be shared publicly (although all responses are anonymous) and used to inform the work of a broad range of organizations and agencies. Waterloo Social Innovation Program Food systems is one of next year’s themes for the Diploma in Social Innovation at the University of Waterloo. Applications are now open; for more information see http://gradsi.ca/.
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on the Right to Food
Building Momentum from the Grassroots to the UN - Meet your MP!
The Federal Court of Appeal heard arguments Wednesday in the federal government's appeal of a ruling that found its introduction of legislation to revamp the Canadian Wheat Board broke the law.
