FSC Newsletter - 2013-02
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MEMBERS NEWSLETTER 7 February 2013
FSC Events
FSC News
Food Resources
Upcoming Events
UN Special Rapporteur Coming To Your Community! Have you heard? FSC is bringing the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food to your community! Right after his report to the Human Rights Counci in Geneva on March 4, Olivier De Schutter will join us for an online interactive discussion on his report on his mission to Canada! Already, community events are being organized across the country to participate in a conversation about the Right to Food. Join us - organize an event in your community! You still have time to plan yours although call-in lines are limited. Click here to find out how. Sharing our Stories from Thunder Bay Community-Academic collaboration around food is happening from coast to coast to coast - but what are some of the sticky issues faced by these initiatives and how are people addressing them? Join us for a teleconference to hear about one such topic in our next Sharing our Stories from Thunderbay, ON on Thursday February 29th 1-2 pm EST. Stay tuned for more details to follow.
Food Secure Canada Welcomes UN Report on Right to Food, Calls on Government to Take Recommendations Seriously Food Secure Canada welcomes the report of the UN Special rapporteur on the right to food on Canada. Read and share the Op-Ed. Let’s Put our Money Where Our Mouths Are: Put Food in the Budget! You would never think to omit food from your family's budget. Yet that is what the federal government has been doing for years! Read FSC’s oped on the federal budget calling for smarter spending. FSC Stands in Solidarity with Idle No More! Read FSC's statement of solidarity with the Idle No More movement.
FSC Executive Member Dayna Chapman Receives Achievement Award in British Columbia! FSC is thrilled to announce that Dayna Chapman, Secretary of FSC, was the recipient of the Public Health Association of BC Sharon Martin Community Development Award for her outstanding contributions to community development and to the BC Food Systems Network. Congratulations Dayna! FSC Staff and Executive Retreats January was full of planning and strategizing at FSC's headquarters. We started off the year with a two-day executive retreat which provided the Staff with guidelines for the short, medium, long term spectra. This high-level planning retreat was followed by a three-day staff retreat in Ste-Agathe-des-Monts. There, we elaborated an action plan for the coming year. Food Secure Canada Supports Bill 460 Food Secure Canada has put its support behind MP Libby Davies’s Bill C-460 calling for a Sodium Reduction Strategy for Canada. More background here.
PROOF - Research to Identify Policy Options to Reduce Food Insecurity PROOF is an interdisciplinary, internationally-based group of researchers, working with knowledge users in the public sector and national non-governmental organizations on a five-year, CIHR-funded program of research to identify policy approaches to improve household food insecurity in Canada. Read more. The Stop - The Book In the new book The Stop, learn how a food bank transcended its unidimensional mandate to tackle food insecurity and became a model for social innovation. Read more. Words from Migrant Workers in Canada Contrary to the temporary nature of their contracts, migrant workers are becoming a permanent feature of the Canadian farming sector. But how often do we hear what being a migrant work is like? The Students against Migrant Exploitation, or the S.A.M.E., put together an insightful four-part mini-series addressing this question. Evaluating Outcomes of Community Food Actions: A Guide Check out this new guide full of practical tools, resources, and strategies to evaluate food projects aimed at reducing barriers to food access, brought to you by the Chronic Disease Prevention Alliance of Canada (CDPAC) and Public Health Agency of Canada.
Webinar. Sustain Ontario presents Policies from the Field Conferences
2013 Organic Consumer Conference: Organic the Way Forward - Our Food, Our Choice
Communication for Effective Co-operation Workshop - Local Organic Food Co-ops Network Monday, February 25, 9:00 am - 4:30 pm. Loyola House, Ignatius Jesuit Centre, Guelph, Ontario
Growing Local, Going Strong - Food Matters Manitoba Conference March 1-2, 2013. The Marlborough Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba.
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