In this section you will find food security resources, such as toolkits, policy papers, and action plans specific to BC. The resource section also includes a small number of non-BC resources that have direct relevance to BC food security.
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This comprehensive slideshow highlights trends in food policy councils (FPCs) across North America (United States, Canada, and Native American/First Nations communities). FPC’s can use the slides to help situate their work in the broader context of food systems change across North America.
An evaluation report on Nourish, a community dialogue held in Kamloops that raised awareness and instigated local action around the root causes of household food insecurity.
Podcast on Indigenous Food Sovereignty interviewing Valerie Segrest, a Native nutrition educator who specializes in local and traditional foods and member of the Muckleshoot Indian Tribe.
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.
Documentary by Kamala Todd on Indigenous Plant Diva Cease Wyss.
These factsheets on some of the key traditional foods for Indigenous peoples in BC provide traditional food use and harvesting information as well as nutrition messages.