Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 3 Wayne’s weekly hacks: The Write Stuff Thanks for opening Number 3 of my newsletter featuring Snappy Hacks that help readers become more effective, successful, and fulfilled as volunteers, workers, farmers, home cooks, gardeners, landscapers, dietitians, researchers, activists, actionists, educators, bloggers, promoters, artisans, cooperators, entrepreneurs, intrapreneurs and food dudes for the real food revolution. There…
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Wayne’s Weekly Hacks: Making A Federal Case For Food
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 2 Wayne’s weekly hacks: Making a Federal Case for Food Thanks for giving this a try. This is Number 2 of my renovated newsletter featuring Snappy Hacks that help readers become more effective, successful, and fulfilled as volunteers, workers, farmers, home cooks, gardeners, landscapers, dietitians, researchers, activists, actionists, educators, bloggers, promoters, artisans,…
Wayne’s Weekly Hacks: Skill Up To Scale Up
Will Work For Food Policy NEWSLETTER ISSUE NO. 1 Wayne’s weekly hacks: Scaling up your influence and impact “Thanks for hanging in as a newsletter subscriber while I went AWOL for nine months. I now have a new approach. I will do a regular set of Snappy Hacks that help readers become more effective, successful and fulfilled as volunteers, workers, professionals, activists,…
Connected Critics: Branding for A People-Centered Food System
“Humans evolved physically to depend on food as the only way to acquire all the nutrients our complex bodies need. Likewise, we evolved socially to live in mutual benefit relationships that meet those needs for the greatest benefit to all. At this time, only food movements have the commitment to unlock these skills and allow these traditions to flourish, especially…
How to brand the food movement
Negative branding is the major factor holding back the food movement’s ability to move beyond the marginal “early adopters,” and keeping it from becoming the “early majority” that can carry through on good food transformations. This negative branding comes in large part from the triumph of fake news in misshaping public opinion. But if negative branding is the Achilles’ heel…
City Food As A World Citizen
‘In a nutshell, Modernist thinking on food exalts agricultural productionism, which frequently uses toxic technologies to overwhelm natural systems and limits, artisanal work methods and traditional home-based skills and habits. Modernism also puts mass productionist methodologies in the drivers’ seat of the entire food system. ‘—Wayne Roberts China boasts one of the oldest and most influential agricultural traditions in the world,…
The Front Burner of Food Policy
‘Would-be food policy actors need to understand that home cooking deserves a front and center positioning in the toolkit of city food programs. There is no aspect of food policy that can be implemented without identifying a lead role for home cooks.’ —Wayne Roberts I’ve been retired for eight years now, and a few months ago the reality of that…
Notwithstanding Cities & Food
‘What life has joined together, let no government tear asunder.’ —Wayne Roberts Toronto, fourth largest city in North America, has just lost its ability to determine the way it elects councilors — people who have, over the past several decades, played a critical role in winning acclaim for Toronto as “the city that works.” An obsolete clause in Canada’s constitution…
HANG TOGETHER OR HANG ALONE
‘It’s hard to find a more important challenge than the one Winne identifies. I don’t deny that food leaders are holding together overworked and underfunded organizations which demand all their time and energy. But there’s a huge opportunity cost to their “every group for itself” approach. That line may work during an emergency, when one boat is sinking. But it doesn’t apply…
SHIFTING FROM NUTRITIONISM TO PEOPLE-CENTERED FOOD POLICY
‘Local governments need to deal with food through the window of people issues – jobs, neighbourhood cohesion, neighbourhood rejuvenation, public safety, mental health, conviviality, the need for “third places,” immigrant welcoming, multiculturalism and interculturalism, community gardens, walkable shopping, farmers markets, school gardens, … the whole nine yards of city life.’ —Wayne Roberts This will be the first full year since 1971 that…