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.

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Farm to Cafeteria: BC Communities Share Paths to Success

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<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

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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

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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

Marketing junk food to kids

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The "No Time to Wait: The Healthy Kids Strategy" calls for a ban on advertising junk food directly to children, as well as other suggestions such as removing junk food displays from convenience stores and displaying calorie counts on menus.

Nutrition and Healthy Weights
Children and Schools
Food Literacy

Guide to Eating Fish for Women, Children and Families

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Toronto Public Health worked with SeaChoice to develop this guide for women and children regarding fish consumption.  It uses a "red" "yellow" "green" summary that overlays both environmental and health considerations to help people choose which varieties of fish and how often to eat them.

GLOBAL FOOD WASTE NOT, WANT NOT

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Food Security Activities in Inuit Communities

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Published June 2012

The food security knowledge-sharing project of the Inuit Tuttarvingat of the National Aboriginal Health Organization (NAHO) aims to share information and practices from programs that contribute to food security in Inuit communities.

Food Sovereignty
Indigenous Food Matters
Traditional / Country Foods

Dreaming New Mexico

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The Dreaming New Mexico project began as a refuge from the trials and tribulations of everyday attempts to make the world a better place. We asked: What is it we really desire? We asked all state residents - government workers, farmers, energy consultants, non-government activists, philanthropists, entrepreneurs - to dream how their work fit into the Big Picture, the longer-term understanding of what they want for themselves, the next generation and the Earth. We created two projects:

Tradition Seafood Specialties

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This is a certified one-man smokehouse and sausage-making facility which uses only local products and old time pickling and spicing with seafood a principal theme. They use alder and open smokehouses as the natives have done for eons, doing chum, sockeye and spring salmon or turkeys on order. Pickled seafood and frozen is also available. The site is on a dyke over the river in Canoe Pass near Ladner.

Tests show most store honey isn't honey

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