Tools and Resources
Your Local Food Guide
An SFU Local Food Project resource guide to get you eating locally! Featuring where to eat locally on campus, what’s in season, listings of farmers markets, community gardens, organic urban delivery, food preservation tips.
Stay tuned for the updated 2009 version coming soon!
Food Roots: The Pocket Market Toolkit: Your Online Guide to Establishing Pocket Markets
http://www.foodroots.ca/pmtoolkit_index.htm
This web based toolkit is an excellent source of information that provides information and resources for how to set up a Pocket Market in your own community!
FarmtoSchool.org
http://www.farmtoschool.org/
Farm to School programs are popping up all over the U.S. These programs connect schools with local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing health and nutrition education opportunities that will last a lifetime, and supporting local small farmers.
Bringing Local Food to Local Institutions: A Resource Guide for Farm-to-School and Farm-to-Institution Programs
http://attra.ncat.org/new_pubs/attra-pub/farmtoschool.html?id=other
When schools purchase from local farms, they stimulate the local economy and guarantee an income for farmers. This document contains information on how to make arrangements between farmers and school food providers work.
Yale Sustainable Food Purchasing Guide
http://www.yale.edu/sustainablefood/food_purchasing.html
The Yale Sustainable Food Purchasing Guide provides a practical guide for university students, university administration, chefs, nutritionists, and food purchasers to help institutions and individuals transition to more sustainable purchasing practices.
Taking Stock 2008: Report on Sustainability in Universities and Colleges in BC
http://www.walkingthetalk.bc.ca/node/1516
Cameron Owens and Janet Moore, 2008
Reviews the status of sustainability efforts in universities and colleges, significant barriers and successes, and makes recommendations for action.
School Year Gardens: A Toolkit for High Schools to Grow Food from September to June
Click here to download pdf
Paris Marshall Smith and Arzeena Hamir, 2008
A guide for teachers and students with school gardens giving advice on how to make the most use of your gardens year-round. Produced by the Richmond Fruit Tree Project, a network of volunteers, property owners, community supporters and food recipients in Richmond, BC.
TeacherGram Sustainable Agriculture Series
http://www.bitsandbytes.ca/resource/200
Produced by LifeCycles Project Society and Victoria International Development Educational Association (VIDEA) , 1996
Curriculum resources for secondary schools. Five-part print series (downloadable, 39 pages total). Content is excellent and thorough. Covers wide spectrum of food security issues, from local to global, from hunger to sustainable agriculture. Includes teacher background, in-class activities, resource lists, glossaries, and links to provincial curriculum.
Student Garden Guide
http://www.circleofresponsibility.com/page/354/student-garden-guide.htm
The student garden guide contains information about ways students can establish relationships between their own gardens and campus food services.
Vancouver Food System Assessment
Herb Barbolet, Vijay Cuddeford, Fern Jeffries, Holly Korstad, Susan Kurbis, Sandra Mark, Christiana Miewald, Frank Moreland, 2005
This report presents an assessment of the current state of Vancouver’s food system and explores how the system might be transformed through proactive development and promotion of policies that build food system sustainability.
B.C.’s Food Self-Reliance: Can B.C.’s Farmers Feed Our Growing Population ?
British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture and Lands, 2006
The general approach of this study is to estimate the food self-reliance in B.C. at the primary production level, and to use this information to examine the impacts of a change in eating habits and a change in population on the level of food self-reliance in B.C.
Community Food System Assessment Guide for BC
Christiana Miewald, Herb Barbolet, Vijay Cuddeford, Susan Kurbis, Janine de la Salle, Dave Whiting, 2007
Food Security Resources: BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
http://www.hls.gov.bc.ca/healthyeating/foodsecurity.html
Comprehensive portal for information, facts, statistics, initiatives, and partnerships related to food security in BC.
Community Food Security Coalition: Publications
http://www.foodsecurity.org/pubs.html
This website contains an incredible diversity of publications related to community food security, ranging from tools on conducting community food assessments, sustainable food policies, farmers markets in low income communities and inner cities, publications in Spanish, health and urban agriculture, and community food projects in action.
Eating up the Earth: How Sustainable Food Systems Shrink our Ecological Footprint
Diana Deumling, Mathis Wackernagel, & Chad Monfreda – July 2003
Using the Ecological Footprint concept, this policy brief address three fundamental questions: 1) What does it currently take to feed us? 2) How can we avoid the clash between expanding human demand and limited ecological capacity? 3) What will it take to feed us well for years to come?
Agricultural Land Resources
Smart Growth BC: Agricultural Land Resources
http://www.smartgrowth.bc.ca/AboutUs/Issue/AgriculturalLand/tabid/111/Default.aspx
The website contains valuable information on the agricultural land base in BC, information on the Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR), actions government and citizens can take to preserve agricultural land, and a diverse range of related reports and resources.
Forever Farmland: Reshaping the Agricultural Land Reserve for the 21st Century
David Suzuki Foundation, 2006
Since 1973, British Columbia’s Agricultural Land Reserve (ALR) has served to protect the province’s quality farmland from the pressures of urban development. Over the years however, decisions have led to the removal of some of the province’s most productive agricultural land where it matters most. Forever Farmland: Reshaping the Agricultural Land Reserve for the 21st Century sets out a series of recommendations to ensure the long-term viability of the ALR.
Food Sovereignty Resources
The Six Pillars of Food Sovereignty
http://www.bitsandbytes.ca/resource/618
Statement of principles collectively written by participants of an international food sovereignty gathering in Nyeleni, Mali, 2007 (1 page pdf).
Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum (Grassroots International)
http://grassrootsonline.org/publications/educational-resources/food-thought-action-a-food-sovereignty-curriculum
Food for Thought and Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum is a remarkably useful popular education tool. It offers a practical way to strengthen a growing food sovereignty movement that includes consumers, farmers, environmentalists and faith communities. Building from the experiences of literally millions of grassroots activists world-wide, Food for Thought and Action challenges us to fix our broken food system.
La Via Campesina
http://www.bitsandbytes.ca/resource/353
Short video featuring women and men from around the world speaking about multilateral agreements, the WTO, agricultural subsidies, unfair trade, globalization, hunger, corporate power, and the international movement for food sovereignty, and the right to food (both to eat and to produce) (7:25 min)
Cultivating Farm Workers Rights: Ending the Exploitation of Immigrant and Migrant Farmworkers in BC
by David Fairey, Christina Hanson, Glen MacInnes, Arlene Tigar McLaren, Gerardo Otero, Kerry Preibisch and Mark Thompson; Co-published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives – BC Office, Justicia for Migrant Workers, Progressive Intercultural Community Services, and the BC Federation of Labour, June 2008
The following summary addresses an often overlooked issue in regards to local food production – the right to fair labour standards for BC farmworkers. The report outlines case studies, key findings, and key recommendations to improve working conditions and labour standards for BC farmworkers.
Vancouver Food Policy
http://vancouver.ca/commsvcs/socialplanning/initiatives/foodpolicy/
Information about City of Vancouver food security initiatives as well as links to food and gardening events and resources.
Metro Vancouver Agriculture
http://www.metrovancouver.org/PLANNING/DEVELOPMENT/AGRICULTURE/Pages/default.aspx
Reports, resources, and information related to planning, regional development, and agriculture in Metro Vancouver.
Fraser Valley Food Network Food Policy Tools
http://www.fraservalleyfoodnetwork.com/?q=node/18
The toolkit was created to provide local organizations with simple ways to incorporate food policy guidelines into office decision making. The three main topics that it addresses are: increasing local food sustainability, decreasing hunger through community capacity building, and improving nutritional health of community members.
http://peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/
The People’s Food Policy Project links people from across Canada to find ways that ordinary people can reclaim decision-making power in our food system. This is the core of food sovereignty, and the base of our project to create Canada’s first comprehensive federal food policy.
Do you have links and resources you’d like us to share? Send them our way at info@sfulocalfood.ca!