‘Only one force can free us from the monopoly over action now held by national governments – our own gumption!’ —Wayne Roberts Field notes from this week Dear Mayor Foodworthy: As everyone knows, there wasn’t much action coming out of the Paris talks on climate change. But a lot happened in terms of traction. Anyone who’s paying attention now knows…
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Good Food Puts Carbon Where It Belongs
‘Getting up on the right side of bread in terms of climate change will be the first, most urgent and biggest accomplishment of food policies for cities and countries around the world. —Wayne Roberts Field notes from this week Dear Minister Chewonthis: Alas, this report from the field does not come from Paris, where governments and climate activists met to…
Wayne’s food field notes served up hot!
‘The idea of a national food policy is the best thing to happen to food since slicing your own whole-grain bread.’— Wayne Roberts Field notes from this week We’re in luck. The mood of open government is so buoyant across Canada that we are able to base this field report on my draft correspondence with the new minister-in-waiting of food, Minister Chewonthis.…
Wayne’s Food Policy Field Notes This Week
‘Teaching cooking is a vehicle to teach food literacy.’— BC chef Barbara Finley tells the room. Notes from this week This week, I’m reporting back on the Farm to Cafeteria/Farm to School conference held in Montreal on November 12-14. It was Canada’s first nation-wide Farm to School and was mainly organized by two groups, Farm to Cafeteria based in Vancouver and Equiterre, based…