Resources & Research

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Bill 36, Local Food Act 2013

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Ontario's proposed Local Food Act

Regional and Local
Food Systems

Guidance Note: Integrating the RIGHT TO ADEQUATE FOOD into food and nutrition security programmes report

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This publication is the result of two years of collaboration between FAO’s Integrated Food Security Support Service (TCSF) and the Right to Food Team in the Agricultural Development Economics Division (ESA). This tool builds a bridge between the normative dimensions of the right to food and practical work on programme design, implementation and monitoring at the country level.

International Issues
Agriculture
Food Systems

Live Green Toronto - Starting a Community Garden

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Embedded Video

Tips and strategies for staring a community garden.

Democracy and Movements
Agriculture
Regional and Local

Entry Points for Diversity, Inclusion and Engagement – Promising Practices

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Learning guides and resources on entry points for diversity, inclusion and engagement - promising practices from the Sustainability Network.

Food Environments
Democracy and Movements
Regional and Local

Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW)

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Justicia for Migrant Workers (J4MW) is a volunteer run political non-profit collective comprised of activists from diverse walks of life (including labour activists, educators, researchers, students and youth of colour) based in Toronto, Ontario, and now in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. We are engaged in this work alongside our personal commitments and numerous social justice struggles.

Labour
Agriculture
Regional and Local

Report on Household Food Insecurity in Canada, 2011

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Almost 3.9 million Canadians experienced some level of food insecurity in 2011. This marks an increase of over 450,000 people since 2008. It includes 1.1 million children living in households that have worried about running out of food, made compromises in the quality of their diets, ate less than they felt they should, and possibly gone without eating, all because they did not have the money to buy more food.

Hunger and Poverty
Right to Food
Food Sovereignty

Lived experience of food insecurity

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Food insecurity in Canada is measured at the level of the household, but it is most profoundly experienced at the level of the individual. PROOF offers articles and research on the lived experience of food insecurity. More information on PROOF at: nutritionalsciences.lamp.utoronto.ca

Hunger and Poverty
Right to Food
Indigenous Food Matters

PROOF

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We are an interdisciplinary, internationally-based group of researchers, working with knowledge users in the public sector and national non-governmental organizations on a five-year research program funded by CIHR. The goal of this research program is to identify attributes of effective policy approaches to improve household food insecurity in Canada. PROOF involves the participation of the University of Toronto, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the University of Calgary, and the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health.

Food Environments
Right to Food
Democracy and Movements

Canada Without Poverty

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Canada Without Poverty seeks to eradicate poverty in Canada for the benefit of all by educating Canadians about the human and financial cost of poverty, and by identifying public policy solutions.

Right to Food
Discrimination and Oppression
Democracy and Movements

Community Food Centres Canada

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Community Food Centres Canada provides ideas, resources and a proven approach to partner organizations across Canada so they can establish responsive, financially stable Community Food Centres. These centres work to bring people together to grow, cook, share, and advocate for good food. With our partners and communities, we are working toward a healthy and fair food system.

Food Literacy
Right to Food
Food Systems