Healthy Living Niagara is looking for your input
Posted: February 13, 2013
Categories: Food in the News
Healthy Living Niagara (HLN) is a collaborative of community organizations that work towards policy change in the Niagara region. The Healthy Eating workgroup is currently exploring opportunities to engage different sectors to inform a regional food system plan. Our preliminary research has identified that engaging stakeholders in the early stages of food system planning is very important, but can be challenging. Therefore, we are looking for your help to identify strategies to engage a variety of sectors such as:
· Municipal (e.g., planning departments, waste management, economic development)
· Agri-Sector (farmers, community gardens, Co-ops, farm supplies)
· Economic Development (chamber of commerce)
· Food Retailers (grocery stores, restaurants)
· Poverty Reduction organizations (food banks, social services, community kitchen)
· Non-profit organizations
· Institutional Purchasers (hospitals, school board)
· Food Manufacturers/Distributers
Request:
If you have engagement strategies, lessons learned or other information specific to engaging any or all of the sectors listed above in food system planning, please send Lisa Gallant (lisa.gallant@niagararegion.ca)* an email with a description of strategies used. Also, if you have relevant publically available documents/reports, please consider including the link.
Please respond by February 28, 2013.
Contact for follow-up information was updated on May 30, 2014.*
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With most agencies there has to be something involved that affects their bottom line in order for participation to be leveraged.
Food production is at the base of our survival. How does our food supply affect each of them? How can they all benefit economically from a local, reliable food supply? What are the spin-offs for them? Show them real numbers of the economic benefits for them. That is the only way they will come to the table. (If this…then this financial result)
I would ask each sector what existing policies, at all levels of government, prevent them or limit them in their business/program delivery goals?
Ask them what changes would allow them to function optimally?