The Gateway’s Community of Practice dove into some Wicked Questions underpinning community food security work in BC, as a way of deepening our conversation on poverty reduction and food insecurity in BC.
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Our November 2018 Community of Practice conversation linked up poverty reduction (with discussion of the upcoming BC Poverty Reduction Plan), food insecurity, and the recent 2017 Food Costing Report. Read on to learn what Trish Garner and Melanie Kurrein brought to the conversation.
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This year’s Table Matters gathering on Vancouver’s North Shore, “Seed, Soil & Sovereignty: Celebrating Diversity With Food” confidently addressed themes of Indigenous food sovereignty, racism, and anti-poverty, some of the most critical issues in BC’s food system and movement.
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Monday, October 16th will mark the 72nd World Food Day. Half a million British Columbians will be struggling with food insecurity and poverty on this day as the cost of food rises and incomes are not keeping up.
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In Part I of this series we spoke with Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Professor at the University of Toronto and Principal Investigator with the PROOF: Food Insecurity Policy Research program as well as with Trish Garner, Community Organizer with the BC Poverty Reduction Coalition. This month, Valerie, Trish, and BC community food security practitioners explore the question: What is the place of community food security work in affecting individual and household food insecurity and poverty reduction?
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To start off the 2017 Homegrown Story series, the Gateway is taking a departure from our usual approach of profiling innovative food security programs from across the province and digging into the issue, and solutions, to the widespread food insecurity and poverty plaguing BC.
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