Food Secuity Links

An Overview of the
Canadian Agriculture and
Agri-Food System 2011
This 2011 report provides an economic overview of the Canadian agriculture and agri-food system.

NDP Food Policy
Food for Thought
Click title for full report
Click here for Executive Summary

Feeding the City Series
A series of articles from looking
at farms, businesses and agtivists
reinventing urban food systems

Southern Vancouver Island
Direct Farm Marking Association
Up to the minute information on
in-season farm products

Processors Directory now online
Provides buyers with a link to
BC food and beverage processors

Policy Guide on Community and
Regional food planning

Google Groups of a list of
food policy/charters

Whole Measures for
Community Food Systems
New planning and evaluation tool for Community Food Systems

Food Security Gateway
brought to you by the
Provincial Health Services Authority and the Public Health Association of BC

Working together for local food:
Co-operative Profiles and
Resource Guide
Produced by the Canadian
Co-operative Association

What Can and Should Local Governments do to Protect
and Enhance Local Agriculture?
CRD Roundtable on the Environment: Food and Agriculture Subcommittee

West Shore Harvest
Food resources for West Shore consumers and growers

Enabling language for
urban agriculture in
Official Community Plans
A sample of OCPs and other planning documents from BC that have included either food security or supports for food production

Capital Region Food Charter

Vancouver Fruit Tree
Harvest Report 2009

Food and Health Action Plan
Booklet for BC's Capital Region

Snapshot of Food Security Initiatives
in BC's Capital Region

Guide to starting a community garden

Report on the
Cost of Eating in BC

Maps of ALR in the CRD

Putting Food & Food Policy on the
Table: Phase I Report

Baseline Assessment of Food
Security in BC's Capital Region

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Food on Video

Agriculture Critic Lana Popham
speech to the legislature on
Agriculture in early February 2011

Food Matters! Forum delegate videos
Link one
Link two

A Disappearing Lifestyle?
Small-scale farming in BC
Link one
Link two

Watch Stung:
Vancouver Island Honey Bees at Risk

Watch the Digital Harvest Stories gathered at the April Conference
on the Traditional Food of
Vancouver Island First Nations

Great short video on food statistics

The Garden Box
Planting up Your Lawn or Patio

Enjoy this video produced on
Vancouver Island for the
100 Mile Diet Society in Vancouver, BC
Home is Where the Food is