Resources & Research

On this page you will find a list of resources and research that have been shared on our website, in order of the date they have been posted.

Please share your resources (handbooks, reports, guides, etc.) by logging in to our website and uploading your resource here.

Soil Testing in Urban Gardens

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From the Ground Up: Guide for Soil Testing in Urban Gardens is a publication of Toronto Public Health. This very practical document was published in October 2013 and helps the reader to understand how to determine the level contamination risk for any potential or current garden and how to adapt one's gardening to the state of the soil. Very user-friendly document that will be helpful in communities across Canada!

Safety and Environment
Food Sovereignty
Regional and Local

From Food Insufficiency towards Trade Dependency

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A Historical Analysis of Global Food Availability

 

Democracy and Movements
Food Systems
Economics

Drupal Readings

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Read up on the various fonctions of Organic Groups.

Test

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Test

Community Food Intensive and the S.E.L.R.S. lens

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Community Food Intensive workshop - This newly created workshop is part of the S.E.L.R.S. project, which aims to build relationships and systematically map the food-related assets in the central Alberta region- supporting the development of Sustainable and Equitable solutions; building Local, Regenerative food Systems where all Albertans are healthy and food secure. The workshop works from the S.E.L.R.S. lens.

Food Environments
Food Sovereignty
Food Systems

GFSA Network - Community Building for Food Security workshop Facilitators Guide

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This Guide is intended to be used with the Community Bulding for Food Security workbook. 

Children and Schools
Food Sovereignty
Food Systems

GFSA Network - Community Building for Food Security workbook

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This Community Building for Food Security workshop and this accompanying workbook (CBFS) was developed using Nova Scotia's "Thought About Food" Resource enhanced with an Asset Based Community Develpment approach.  It has been used effectively by Alberta rural, urban, and Fist Nations communties in Alberta for over 8 years.   Evaluations have been conducted and can be found on the www.foodsecurityalberta.org web site.

There is also a faciltator guide to accompany the CBFS workbook.  It is also in this resources list .

 

Children and Schools
Food Environments
Food Systems

Bearing Fruit: Farm to School Program Evaluation

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Evaluation conducted by Farm to School Network in the US in 2008-2009.

To Download the PDF report:

http://food-hub.org/files/resources/BF%20full%20report.pdf

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Regional and Local

Previous efforts to advance national student feeding programs

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These slides were presented by Bill Jeffery, Centre for Science in the Public Interest, during a meeting on Raising the Bar on Student Food Programs, November 26, 2013.

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Environments

Research on School Nutrition Policies and Programs

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These are the slides to Mary McKenna's presentation at the Raising the Bar on Student Food Programs meeting, November 26, 2013.

 

Children and Schools
Food Environments
Regional and Local