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Food Sovereignty

The International Committee on Food Sovereignty defines it as,

“the right of peoples to healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to define their own food and agriculture systems”… read more

The Six Pillars of Food Sovereignty
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)
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
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)

Canadian Biotechnology Action Network
The Canadian Biotechnology Action Network runs several campaigns promoting food sovereignty and against the use of genetically modified seeds and crops in Canada.

Food Security Resources

[NEW!] Metro Vancouver Draft Regional Food System Strategy
Metro Vancouver, 2010
On September 24^th2010, the Metro Vancouver Board released the Draft Regional Food System Strategy for public consultation. For more information on the Regional Food System Strategy, click here. To provide feedback on the document, click here.

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

Indigenous Food Systems Network

Food Security Resources: BC Ministry of Healthy Living and Sport
Comprehensive portal for information, facts, statistics, initiatives, and partnerships related to food security in BC.

Community Food Security Coalition: Publications
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?

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