National Student Food Summit 2011
Posted: July 19, 2011
Categories: Food in the News
Please share with any students you know who are concerned about food issues. The Summit is open to any 
student attending a post-secondary school in the fall and the deadline to register is July 29th.
The Summit delegate fee has been reduced by $100 thanks to help from the supporters listed below!!!
The National Student Food Summit 2011 is the first of its kind in Canada. The Summit will be held at the University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada. With the theme of theSummit being, “Food Connects Us Allâ€. Students concerned about issues related to food, poverty, health and the environment are invited to be one of five representatives from their campus to share their expertise and perspective in the creation of a Campus Food Charter. This document will identify a set of principles related to food that all of us can strive towards to achieve food security on our campuses and communities across Canada.
We need to act quickly and intelligently to change how our food system works. Currently we have 2.7 million food insecure Canadians, a ballooning rate of obesity and heart disease, and an unsustainable way of producing food. This Summit focuses on SOLUTIONS and the role that a campus can play in bringing about a sustainable food system that ensures access to healthy food for everyone. We’ve brought together food advocates from companies, government and NGOs who are working at local and global scales on issues of poverty, health and the environment. All of them will focus on what a CAMPUS can do to change the food system.
All delegates receive free one-year memberships to Food Secure Canada and the Canadian Association of Food Studies.
ViaRail travel bursaries are available courtesy of Sierra Youth Coalition. Deadline to apply is Friday, July 15th.
It features keynotes from the United Nations World Food Programme, Campbell Company of Canada and a recent McGill University graduate who orchestrated the McGill food systems project. Additional speakers include representatives from the Toronto Youth Food Policy Council, Sustain Ontario, Food Forward, Aramark Canada, Food Secure Canada, Local Food Plus, and Food Banks Canada.
We’ll also be visiting community food projects at Chocosol, Gladstone Hotel, Fort York Food Bank, Yonge Street Mission and many more.
The Summit is being organized by Meal Exchange with support from the Heart & Stroke Foundation of Ontario, Sierra Youth Coalition, Aramark Canada, Campbell Company of Canada and Oxfam.
Food connects us all at the National Student Food Summit
August 5-7th @ the University of Toronto
Hope to see you there!