Sustain Ontario » indigenous http://sustainontario.com The Alliance for Healthy Food and Farming Fri, 03 Feb 2012 17:47:15 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The First Annual Food Symposium with Nishnawbe Aski Nation http://sustainontario.com/2009/11/02/780/blog/news/the-first-annual-food-symposium-with-nishnawbe-aski-nation http://sustainontario.com/2009/11/02/780/blog/news/the-first-annual-food-symposium-with-nishnawbe-aski-nation#comments Mon, 02 Nov 2009 16:17:09 +0000 Katie Rabinowicz http://sustainontario.com/?p=780

Join the FSRN, NAN and a group of community experts for an intense two-day conference on the subject of food security and how it affects our First Nations people and northern society in general.  Forum discussions, panel discussions and breakout sessions will cover topics like Aboriginal Strategies in Agriculture, Learning to Heal through Gardening, Boreal Forest Gardening, Solar Greenhouses and more.

Location:  Best Western Nor’Wester Hotel
Dates:  Wednesday, November 18th 7:30am – 4:15pm; Thursday, November 19th 7:30am – 3:30pm

Please visit us again soon for the full conference agenda including schedule, speakers and panel members.  For further information and to register, please contact us at info@foodsecurityresearch.ca.

]]> http://sustainontario.com/2009/11/02/780/blog/news/the-first-annual-food-symposium-with-nishnawbe-aski-nation/feed 0 Call for applications for the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues http://sustainontario.com/2009/09/08/389/blog/news/call-for-applications-for-the-trust-fund-on-indigenous-issues http://sustainontario.com/2009/09/08/389/blog/news/call-for-applications-for-the-trust-fund-on-indigenous-issues#comments Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:59:33 +0000 Katie Rabinowicz http://sustainontario.com/?p=389 The 2010 Call for applications for the Trust Fund on Indigenous Issues relating to the Second International Decade of the World’s Indigenous People is open.

Grants are up to US$10,000.

Information and forms are available at:

http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/en/second_trustfund.html#Call2010

Links to other languages (Spanish, French, Russian) can be found on that page.

Applications for Trust Fund grants will be accepted between August 1, 2009 and November 1, 2009.

Applications are to be submitted to: indigenousfund@un.org

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