The response to Sustain Ontario’s Metcalf Food Solutions report, Menu 2020: Ten Good Food Ideas for Ontario has been fantastic.
Last summer I proposed to write a report for the Metcalf Food Solutions series. After one year of being on the job as Sustain Ontario’s director, I wanted to showcase the good food ideas I learned about while speaking with farm and food leaders throughout the province. Read more »
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Sustain Ontario and Ontario Culinary Tourism Alliance (OCTA) have partnered to develop case studies of local food distribution models. Distribution has been identified as a priority issue for both Sustain Ontario and OCTA members. Read more »
GRANT ROBERTSON, SPECIAL TO THE DAILY OBSERVER March 9/10
It is funny how things change sometimes.
I was reminded of this recently when I received a glossy promotional magazine in my mail for one of Ontario’s farm organizations that discussed amongst other things a national food policy like they had invented the idea.
A few years ago I was at a government consultation meeting around the future of agriculture. I was there representing the National Farmers Union and the thousands of farmers across Canada who have been talking and working on promoting the need for a national food policy and agricultural policies that actually focus on the needs and importance of family farmers. During the meeting I brought up the idea of a national food policy.
Continue reading the full article here: Food policy for Canada by Grant Robertson
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