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Planning for Food System Resilience at the Bulkley Valley Food Security Forum

Posted on September 15, 2017

The ice storms in the Lower Mainland last year prompted an inevitable crisis — highways were closed and food trucks couldn’t make it up here. Store shelves started emptying…We were having a food system breakdown.

A pioneering food security network convenes powerful conversations in Burnaby

Posted on June 8, 2016

Grassroots networks like Burnaby Food First undertake multiple strategies to advance food security action and policy, from food skills workshops and community outreach to working with municipal government and convening stakeholders across sectors.

Food policy collaborations take root in Metro Vancouver, Squamish and the Sunshine Coast

Posted on May 11, 2016

Squamish and the Sunshine Coast are enabling food policy through collaboration across sectors.