Video: Growing Food Resilience on TVO’s The Agenda
Posted: March 12, 2014
Categories: Food in the News / GoodFoodBites / News from Sustain Ontario
On March 5th, TVO’s current affairs program The Agenda hosted a panel of food and farming system experts to discuss Ontario’s food security. Sustain Ontario’s Acting Director Carolyn Young participated in this panel alongside:
- Steve Peters, Executive Director of the Alliance of Ontario Food Processors, and former Minister of Agriculture and Food
- Brenda Lammens, Owner of Spearit Farms and Chair of the Agricultural Management Institute
- Jamie Reaume, Chair of the Ontario Food Terminal Board & Executive Director of the Holland Marsh Growers’ Association
- Dr. Evan Fraser, Canada Research Chair for Global Human Security at the University of Guelph.
Discussion topics included the importance of strengthening and enabling a mid-scale food processing sector and how the profile of agriculture and food issues has been raised over the past year. Henriet DeBruin of DeBruin Greenhouses also spoke with host Steve Paikin about opportunities and challenges in growing food production in Northern Ontario. A recording of the interview is in the second video below.
There is value in collaborating & working together to look at solutions, across Ontario – Carolyn Young @SustainOntario #AgendaTVO
— Claire Buré (@ClaireBure) March 6, 2014
From The Agenda: “Ontario farms some of the most fertile agricultural lands in North America. Yet we also import millions of tonnes of fresh food every year. With droughts in California, Brazil and Australia and soil contamination in China putting severe pressure on food from foreign lands, The Agenda examines how well prepared Ontario’s food system is to withstand turbulent times.