Resource Category: Procurement

Planning for Food Security: A Toolkit for the COVID-19 Pandemic

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: First Nations Health Authority
• Category: Covid 19, Decolonization, Food Safety, Indigenous food sovereignty, Procurement, Remote, Seafood, Urban Food Growing and Gathering
• Format: Document
• Type: Guide/toolkit

Toolkit includes ideas, templates, tools and information to support planning for food security during pandemic and beyond.

Sharing the Harvest during the Pandemic: Safety Precautions for Distributing Traditional Foods

• Year Published: 2020
• Source: First Nations Health Authority
• Category: Covid 19, Food Safety, Health, Indigenous food sovereignty, Procurement
• Format: Document
• Type: Fact sheet

Information on safely sharing traditional foods, such as fish, wild meat or berries during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Sustainable Consumption for All: Improving the Production of Sustainably-Produced Foods in Canada

• Year Published: 2019
• Source: Food Secure Canada
• Category: Agriculture, Health, Household food insecurity, Procurement
• Format: Document
• Type: Report/synthesis

Report to better understand how consumers living with low-incomes value and access sustainably grown foods, what barriers they face in doing so and what policy measures could be undertaken to facilitate greater access.

Healthy Eating & Food Security

• Year Published: 2013
• Source: PlanH
• Category: Household food insecurity, Local Government, Policy, Procurement, School
• Format: Document
• Type: Guide/toolkit

Guide for local government best practices in supporting healthy eating and food security.

Community Strength Based Approaches to Indigenous Food Systems

• Year Published: 2018
• Source: Centre for Excellence in Indigenous Health's UBC Learning Circle (UBCLC)
• Category: Community, Environment, Health, Indigenous food sovereignty, Mental Health, Policy, Procurement, Remote, School, Seafood
• Format: Video
• Type: Video

Webinar with wisdom from three people across BC working in Indigenous food systems.

Social innovation in food banks

• Year Published: 2016
• Source: Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society
• Category: Community, Health, Household food insecurity, Procurement, Waste
• Format: Document
• Type: Report/synthesis

Interviews with 18 food organizations from across North America on their work, and presents a continuum of socially innovative practices in the food bank sector.