Documenting Food System Experiences, Community Challenges & Local Resilience During Covid-19 and Bey
07/19/2021
In our newest press release learn how a team of University of Toronto students is helping support the Scarborough and Courtyard Farmers' Markets' pandemic innovations.
Read it here: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/?p=723&preview=true
07/15/2021
Our new blogpost is a photo essay on how the Withrow Park Farmers' Market has withstood the constraints imposed by the pandemic and continued to provide nutritious, locally-grown, and sustainably produced for its community. Read it here: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/2021/07/15/photo-story-the-withrow-park-farmers-market/
06/28/2021
As members of Canada’s food community, the food that we all grow and consume is related to the social, cultural, and relational aspects of community and identity. Whether we actively recognize it or not, our food links to our individual and collective community- and land-based identities. To learn more about the role of food in our future identities, check out our new report: Visions of the Food System to Come: Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating and Ecological Justice in 2050 and help contribute to the conversation!
Read the full report and join the conversation here:https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
06/24/2021
In Feeding the City’s newest report, we explore our individual and collective relationships to food. In recent years, we have seen the rise of diet cultures, many of which promote monotonous, universalized approaches to eating that disregard cultural practices related to food. We recognize that each person has a different relationship to the food that they grow or consume. As such, we should not focus our collective energies on promoting a universalized diet. Rather, we must work to ensure that individuals and communities have equitable access to fresh, culturally significant foods.
Read the full report here and join the conversation:https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
06/21/2021
On June 22nd (tomorrow), Feed Scarborough and Centennial College will be hosting a event titled "Food for Thought: Collaborating to Support Food Security in Scarborough".
This event is meant to bring together community organizations and leaders to discuss key issues related to food security in Scarborough. The goal is to brainstorm innovative and collaborative approaches to addressing hunger in our communities.
Register for the event here: https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/food-for-thought-collaborating-to-support-food-security-in-scarborough-tickets-158153694959
06/21/2021
In Feeding the City’s newest report, we emphasize the importance of building up social economies across Canada. They would strengthen urban-rural relations, including connections between food producers and consumers, while supporting the rise of alternative food networks. To learn more about the role of social economies in our future food system, check out our new report: Visions of the Food System to Come: Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating and Ecological Justice in 2050 and help contribute to the conversation!
Read it here: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf.
06/17/2021
In Feeding the City’s newest report, we set forth our vision for a socially just, equitable food system in Canada. Our vision cannot be attained until migrant agricultural workers are granted the same rights as their Canadian counterparts. Migrant agricultural workers are integral to the Canadian food system and must no longer be exposed to unjust treatment on behalf of the Canadian government.
Read the full report here:https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
06/14/2021
To ensure a just transition in the food system, we must align our efforts to champion social, economic, political, and environmental justice for all. Doing so will support the self-determination and decision-making power of our food communities. To learn more about the just transition in our future food system, check out our new report: Visions of the Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating and Ecological Justice in 2050 and help contribute to the conversation!
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
06/10/2021
In Feeding the City’s newest report, we set forth various actions that must be undertaken to transform our food system into one that promotes democratic, inclusive governance. In order to achieve this system of governance, all those belonging to Canada’s food community – farmers and eaters alike – must place pressure on the corporations and government bodies that seek to dominate the food system.
Read the report here:https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
06/07/2021
On Wednesday, June 16, 2021, from 3:00 PM to 5:00 PM EST, join Dr. Sarah Wakefield and the University of Toronto School of the Environment in the second installment of its annual Summer Webinar Series. In the first half of the webinar, Dr. Wakefield will examine the role of activist organizations in challenging the exploitative relationships that remain prevalent in our food system, and the shift towards food justice and food sovereignty activism. In the second half of the webinar, Dr. Wakefield and the audience will explore food activism in Canada and highlight various actions that may support the creation of sustainable and just food systems while challenging existing power structures.
To attend this webinar, please register here: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJMvf-yhrTMsGNY54NZvav1Lo-D_v4qd8nAf
06/05/2021
Feeding the City has published summaries of the webinars we've previously hosted as apart of our commitment to accessible knowledge dissemination. Access them here: https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/2021/06/03/feeding-the-city-webinar-summaries/
06/03/2021
The pandemic has laid bare the disfunctions of our current food systems, and particularly the distance and disconnection embedded in the system. Our new report, Visions of the Food System to Come: Agriculture, Eating and Ecological Justice in 2050, examines what a more just and sustainable food system that works for and with people and nature would look like, and how we can get there. Read our report and join the conversation!
https://www.utsc.utoronto.ca/projects/feedingcity/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2021/04/Visions-of-the-Food-System-to-Come_Version-1.0.pdf
