Resource Category: Policy

Toronto Black Food Sovereignty Plan

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: City of Toronto
• Category: Black food sovereignty, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Income, Policy, Racial Equity, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document
• Type: Strategy/Action Plan

City of Toronto’s Black Food Sovereignty Plan, the first in so-called Canada to respond to the need for immediate and comprehensive action to address the problem of food insecurity experienced by many Black Torontonians.

First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Assembly of First Nations, University of Montreal, University of Ottawa
• Category: Decolonization, Environment, Food Justice, Food Safety, Health, Indigenous food sovereignty, Policy, Remote, Seafood
• Format: Document
• Type: Summary

Key findings and recommendations for decision-makers from a study to address
knowledge gaps about the nutritional adequacy, quality and safety of traditional foods.

Community-Centered Food Support and Care for All: Transforming Dignified Food Access in Vancouver

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Kiwassa Neighbourhood House
• Category: Covid 19, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Policy, Racial Equity
• Format: Document
• Type: Report/synthesis

A sharing back of conversations from food justice advocates in Vancouver on dignified approaches to food access programs.

Should a Just Recovery include a Basic Income for BC?

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: SFU Labour Studies
• Category: Covid 19, Income, Policy, Poverty, Racial Equity
• Format: Video
• Type: Website

Panel hosted by SFU Labour Studies on a basic income for BC in COVID recovery.

What Would it Take to End Food Insecurity?

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Tamarack Institute
• Category: Covid 19, Food Justice, Household food insecurity, Indigenous food sovereignty, Policy, Racial Equity
• Format: Video
• Type: Webinar

Discussion of the role of different sectors in moving from short-term, downstream responses to long-term, systemic solutions that build capacity, enable COVID recovery and increase resiliency.

Urban Foodlands: Case Studies of Kamloops, Vancouver and Victoria

• Year Published: 2021
• Source: Public Health Association of BC, Real Estate Foundation of BC
• Category: Local Government, Policy, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Type: Report/synthesis

Urban agriculture case studies of three municipalities.