Food Secure Canada/Sécurité Alimentaire Canada

Food Secure Canada develops working papers on issues of importance to our membership. In addition to the following, working groups are developing papers on Food Security as a Human Right and on Climate Change and Food Security.

Food Secure Canada materials

Sécurité Alimentaire Canada/Food Secure Canada leaflet
July 2007
Child and Nutrition Policy
Énoncé de principe sur la nutrition infantile
Food Localism Working Paper
L’« auto-capacité » alimentaire locale
Next Generation Agriculture Policy Framework Submission
Proceedings of the conference Working Together: Civil Society Input for Food Security in Canada, June 2001 at Ryerson University, Toronto. French version, Travailler Ensemble.
Proceedings of the 3rd National Food Security Assembly, September-October 2005 in Waterloo, Ontario

Publications by Members

Waterloo Public Health reports
Community Food Security position paper, Dietitians of Canada
A Summary of the Hunger Count 2007, Canadian Association of Food Banks. To read or download the full report, go to www.cafb.ca/documents/HungerCount2007.pdf

for other member campaigns and activities, click here.

Links

The Community Food Security Coalition website has many resources and information about food security work in the USA.

Agriculture

The Farm Crisis and Corporate Profits
National Farmers' Union report, November 30, 2005

Food policy

International Assessment of Agricultural Knowledge, Science and Technology for Development: reports agreed to at an Intergovernmental Plenary Session in Johannesburg, South Africa in April, 2008 (in English, French, and other languages)

The Future of Food Policy in Canada: Thoughts After a Conference
Mustafa Koc, February, 22, 2006

Brief Report from the Forum for Food Sovereignty - Cathleen Kneen, March 2007; Full report (PDF)

Components for a Policy on Food Security published by the Table de concertation sur la faim et le développement social du Montréal métropolitain

Right to food

Charter of Fundamental Rights Concerning Food
La Charte de les droitsfFondamentaux dans le secteur alimentaire
Guide d’accompagnement de la Charte (French only)

Food system

The Ram's Horn - a monthly newsletter of food system analysis, available for free download.
The Land of Milk & Money - the final report of The People's Food Commission, 1977-1080, courtesy of Between The Lines. Click here to download (note it is a very large file - if you are unable to download it, click here for an order form for a CD)

NEW

Making a killing from hunger - We need to overturn food policy, now! A new publication from GRAIN
Towards Food Sovereignty: reclaiming autonomous food systems, by Michel Pimbert - An online book from the IIED