Wayne Roberts

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Local food system responses to COVID-19: Toronto and its city region

May 13, 2020 By WayneRoberts Leave a Comment

  Toronto and its city region – known as the Greater Golden Horseshoe – is the most populous area in Canada, with nine million … [Read More...]

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Crisis Within a Crisis: COVID-19 Leads the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization to Shine a Light on Food in Cities

May 13, 2020 By WayneRoberts Leave a Comment

UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization Calls Food and Hunger a “Crisis Within a Crisis” of COVID-19     Food often suffers from … [Read More...]

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Seeding climate action on Canada’s farms

April 20, 2020 By WayneRoberts Leave a Comment

Low-input sustainable agriculture is helping farmers store carbon underfoot Like everybody else, farmers talk a lot about the weather without doing … [Read More...]

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Four ways COVID-19 will change food systems and food security

March 24, 2020 By WayneRoberts Leave a Comment

It’s too early for precise answers to questions about the coronavirus pandemic’s long-term impacts on the ways food is produced, processed, … [Read More...]

Winning friends and influencing people on Twitter is about earning. not winning, influence.

5 Ways to Use Twitter to Promote Good Food for All

March 21, 2020 By WayneRoberts Leave a Comment

Can food tweets go viral amidst COVID-19? #coronavirus has been teaching us what viral means in terms of a scary communicable disease, not just the … [Read More...]

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A Report Stirs the Agriculture Pot

January 31, 2016 By Dilya Niezova Leave a Comment

Farms occupy half the landmass of Ontario's Greater Golden Horseshoe, and are the foundation of the biggest employment sector in the province – … [Read More...]

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Food and Community: Complete Works

January 29, 2016 By Dilya Niezova Leave a Comment

David Crombie was known as Toronto’s “tiny perfect mayor” during the 1970s, when he started turning the international reputation of a bickering … [Read More...]

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Food Meditations: HOW TO PLAN A FOOD SNOWBALL

January 27, 2016 By Dilya Niezova Leave a Comment

One of many problems caused by global warming is that fewer people know what it means to say something "snowballs." How will people understand how … [Read More...]

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Food Meditations: Food Democracy Is All Greek to Me

January 22, 2016 By Dilya Niezova 1 Comment

Food and city policy advocates owe a lot to ancient Athens. Even someone as ill-informed as me knows we owe them the root word of policy, politics … [Read More...]

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THOUGHT FOR FOOD: Bigger Than Both Of Us

January 17, 2016 By Dilya Niezova Leave a Comment

The basic math of food advocacy is to put two and two together, and come up with at least 5. The secret of effective policy is to turn the solution … [Read More...]

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