The final report of the Commission sur l’avenir de l’agriculture et de l’agroalimentaire Québécois is now available, click here. A shorter version is also available in English, click here.
Crops, Cars & Climate Crisis: The Global Impacts of Growing Biofuels on Food, Farmers, and Human Rights. A six-city tour with speakers from Argentina, Canada, Colombia, Mali, Mexico, Paraguay, the UK, the US, and the Philippines.
April 28 – Charlottetown, Saskatoon
April 29 – Halifax, Winnipeg
April 30 – Ottawa
May 1 – Montreal
The corporate "agrofuels" gold-rush
has ignited a major global conflict. Governments across the world are
committing to agrofuels as a part of their energy strategies. But producing
crops for fuel is already changing world agriculture, with major consequences
for people, ecosystems, and the planet. Whatever you call it – biofuel, biodiesel, agrofuel
– fuel derived from plants is touted as an important answer to the oil
crisis and climate change. Is it?
For more
Information visit www.cban.ca/agrofuels. Free admission. Everyone welcome.
Presented
by: Canadian Biotechnology
Action Network, ETC Group,
Inter Pares, National Farmers Union, Partnership Africa Canada, The Ram's Horn, USC Canada, Beyond Factory Farming,
Union Paysanne, Food
Action Committee - Ecology Action Centre Halifax, and P.E.I.
Coalition for a GMO-Free Province.
Food Secure Canada /Sécurité alimentaire Canada: The 2007 Annual General Meeting was held electronically on December 18, 2007. The election of the new Steering Committee also took place electronically. For a list of the new Steering Committee, click here.
The National Assembly 2008 and AGM will be held in Ottawa, November 13-16th, 2008.
Beyond Factory Farming held a conference on Safe Food. Healthy Communities: Building a Food System That Works for People, Animals and The Environment on February 29 and March 1 in Guelph ON.
The Annual General Meeting of the Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador and the public release of the 'Call to Action' Report from the Food Security Assembly was held on March 1 in St. John's.
The Manitoba Food Charter presented Growing Local, Getting Vocal: Cultivating a Food Secure Future for Manitobans to a sold-out crowd from all over the province at the University of Winnipeg, March 7-8, 2008
Food Secure Saskatchewan annual conference was held April 21-22, with a broad attendance of members and guests from all over the province. The conference, entitled How Does Your Garden Grow? was held at the Senator Allan Bird Memorial Centre, Opawakoscikan Reserve, 851-23rd Street West, Prince Albert.
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BC Food Systems Network Sorrento Gathering, September 14-16, 2007, see www.fooddemocracy.org
Food Secure Saskatchewan, October 17-18, 2007, see Conference Agenda Poster
Food Security Network of Newfoundland and Labrador, October 18-20, 2007, see www.foodsecuritynews.com/
"Bridging Borders Toward Food Security” Vancouver, BC, Canada. October 7-11, 2006
Statement (English); Déclaration (français) from the Fourth Annual Conference of Food Secure Canada in conjunction with the Community Food Security Coalition
Assembly Proceedings and Presentations - 3rd National Food Security Assembly, Waterloo
Third National Food Security Assembly - Waterloo, Ontario - September 30 to October 2, 2005
From our first meeting back in 2001 - WorkingTogether.pdf