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On this page will be found information on food policy, environmental issues being addressed and other related material available on the internet. The websites have not fully been investigated. They can be seen as as source of inspiration and also confirmation. Confirmation that your project is doing quite well compared with others.

We begin with the City of Vancouver.

For an overview, see the Venn diagram in the panel below. It is there to " ..illustrate the overlapping nature of the components of the Food System and link them with the overarching concept of sustainability. A well-functioning Food System not only builds human health and social well-being, but is good for the environment and the economy."

Then use the "Vancouver " link before looking at "Its Food Policy".

The Policy covers issues such as:
How do food policies contribute to sustainability?

Environmental sustainability

Social sustainability

Economic sustainability


When you look at "Its Food Charter" it seeks to encourage:
Consumers to purchase more locally produced food;

Regional farmers to direct more of their production to local markets;

Restaurateurs to feature more local, sustainable food on menus;

Food Retailers to shift more of their inventory to local and sustainably produced food;

Increased levels of “edible gardening” . . .

Enhanced backyard and neighbourhood level composting and efforts recovery of edible food."
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The next look at the internet reveals a sign-up package supposedly to help you deal with environmental issues - click "Croner" and select points of interest. If anyone signs up, please send feedback.

The Right to Food link shows that the "Three major ... outputs are: advocacy, capacity building and implementation."

One of its functions is "To provide stakeholders with a forum for knowledge and information exchange and to facilitate the development of a community of practice." That could have been taken from the Herefordshire project surrounding the new MA course described earlier in this section of the website. The list quoted from the Vancouver Food Charter might also have come from the Herefordshire project.
The Food security website begins with:

By addressing issues of hunger, malnutrition, dietary-related disease and food security with a Sustainable Community Development (SCD) approach, we hope to be able to create community-based solutions that address urgent food security issues and develop pathways for permanent solutions.

The site later quotes the UN World Food Summit 1996:

"Utilizing a food systems approach allows for an understanding of the connections between the health of individuals, communities, economic development, environmental integrity, and physical infrastructure (e.g., transportation, housing, retail, parks). In addition, a food systems approach breaks down some of the traditional barriers between urban and rural, health and the economy, producer and consumer and reveals the often hidden relationships between these spheres."
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