Few areas of the world live up to this year’s International Women’s Day theme to “Make it Happen” as well as the isolated villages of eastern Africa — where most women grow, process and cook food, often as the sole head of the family. This may surprise people who think of the women’s rights movement as an urban trend based…
Category: Local Food
VIDEO: Rummaging Through the Myth: The True Cost of Food Waste
Canadian Food Policy Analyst, Dr. Wayne Roberts spoke at the Kawartha World Issues Centre’s KWIC World Issues Cafe on January 24, 2015 in Peterborough, Ontario.The Issues Cafe was held in conjunction with the ReFrame Peterborough International Film Festival’s feature film “Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story”
The Brazil Food Guide: Look at food differently in 2015
This is the year we can all look to Brazil’s Food Guide for tips on how to consider what we eat in a new light. Brazil is best known in the food and health worlds for its Zero Hunger program, launched in 2003 in what was then known as the most unequal country in the world. The country is already…
Five Ways to Watch Your “Wasteline” and Get Creative with Food Waste
Despite minimal publicity, students had to sign up weeks in advance to reserve a seat for a packed food event held on November 24 in the cavernous William Doo Auditorium at the University of Toronto’s New College. Was the huge crowd lured by a professional event organizer offering samples of exquisite delicacies and a chance to hear a celebrity chef…
Food activists celebrate gains at Halifax conference
One of the oldest of essential human needs, food energizes Canada’s newest social movement, which entered the scene long after the labour, human rights and women’s movements — all of which predated the global rise of neoliberalism. If the 500 food advocates attending six plenaries and 50 workshops at the Halifax conference of Food Secure Canada are any indication, the…
Agroecology at New: World Food Days, Part 3
This year, several United Nations identified agroecology as a strategy of food production that is central to dealing with hunger, human rights and environmental crises. This October, New College added to this discussion by hosting a mini-conference to celebrate World Food Day and ask if agroecology is pushing out agriculture as “the next new thing” in food and equity. Not to be…
VIDEO: Planet in Focus eco-hero Wayne Roberts
Wayne Roberts took part in the Planet in Focus 2014 Permaculture Panel following the screening of The Chikukwa Project, directed by Gillian Leahy and Terry Leahy.
Agroecology at New: World Food Days, Part 2
Dr. Filiberto Penados gives new meaning to the term, “visiting professor”. He travels regularly from his Central American home in Belize to lecture at New College and elsewhere at U of T for the Equity Studies, Aboriginal Studies, Caribbean Studies, Human Biology and New One: Learning Without Borders programs. In Belize, he directs the Institute for Sustainable International Studies, which…
Rejoice! Toronto’s civic system may yet save the city from itself
On October 27, Toronto voters reverted to type by electing one middle-of-the-road (or is it subway?) mayor, and a grand total of seven fresh faces on a City Council of 44 members. Some candidates lose elections, but the government always wins, cynics may be tempted to say. But the deeper causes of such political stability deserve scrutiny they never received…
Collaborating On Food: An Interview With Wayne Roberts
Sustain Ontario spoke to Wayne Roberts, food policy expert and author of The No Nonsense Guide to World Food and Food for City Building: A Field Guide for Planners, Actionists & Entrepreneurs (2014). For 10 years, Wayne was the chair of the Toronto Food Policy Council, a group internationally renowned for being the first food policy council embedded within a major city government and a leader…