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Author: Josie Di Felice

Posted: February 13, 2013

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.*