Making it fair . . . a closer look at fair trade and sustainable food systems
P.E.I. Food Security Network workshop is a success
Posted: Monday 29th March 2010 13:59 (Updated: Wednesday 2nd June 2010 15:33)
Over forty people took part in the most recent workshop to be hosted by the P.E.I. Food Security Network. "Making it Fair" included presentations by Ann Wheatley about the PEI National Farmers Union Domestic Fair Trade project, a keynote address by Scott Sinclair of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives entitled, "Free Trade, Fair Trade and Buy Local Food Policies", and an interactive "Food Counts" workshop aimed at identifying important key indicators of food security, presented by Irené Novaczek and Jake Bartlett of the Institute of Island Studies and U.P.E.I. Read further for a link to the workshop report.
Workshop Report
The report of the workshop can be found here:
Making it Fair - May 20, 2010: Workshop Report
Food Counts
Research leader: Alison Blay-Palmer, Wilfred Laurier University, Ontario
Study sites: Canada, Waterloo Ontario, & PEI
PEI Collaborators: Pamela Courtenay Hall and Irene Novaczek, UPEI
Food scares, extensive food miles, escalating oil prices, declining rural communities and food related health crises are motivating people to build alternative food networks. These new food systems typically have a local focus with shorter connections from field to fork than global, industrial systems and tend to be embedded in social versus capital economies. The Canadian Sustainable Food Systems report card will be developed, including social, economic, and environmental indicators to establish a baseline for food system health and act as a guide for policy-makers and planners to make improvements. The distinctly Canadian report card will account for regional and local variations and the complex governance, policy and regulatory systems unique to Canada.