Food Initiatives Greenhouse
47 Resources
Type: Report/Working Paper
Date: 2015-03-23
This report cover the topics local food procurement framework, planning for local food procurement, implementing local food procurement and evaluating…
Type: Toolkit/Guide
Date: 2015
The toolkit,Local Sustainable Food Procurement in Municipalities and the Broader Public Sector, is geared towards Ontario municipalities and broader public…
This compilation of language tools, worksheets and examples of documents from across North America have been selected to guide in…
Date: 2011
This document provides a 5-step aproach in examining food origin. This involves contacting food manufactures to obtain information on the…
Date: November 2017
This beautifully illustrated step be step guide, available in both official languages, was designed specifically to support school communities and…
Types: Policy, Policy Brief or Recommendations, Research
Date: Nov 29, 2017
The Sustainable Food Enterprise Network cooperated with student researchers Phoebe Stephens and Amberley Ruetz throughout 2017 to create policy position…
Type: Tipsheet
This 4-page resource offers ideas, tips and resources re: procuring local food in schools. This is the 6th Tipsheet in…
Date: March 2017
This report presents ten lessons learned about changing institutional food (purchasing and food services) and identifies barriers as well as…
Type: Case Study
This provides a case study of how high school cafeterias in Thunder Bay added a fresh cut fry product from…
Date: Dec 20, 2016
This Case Study highlights the Farm to Caf program - a collaborative project that provided a $5 local lunch special…
This Case Study discusses how students of the Grade 10 Culinary Program at St. Ignatius High School prepared and served…
Types: Case Study, Report/Working Paper
Date: November 2015
Through this project, Ecosource and Roots to Harvest worked with teachers, students and food service providers in Durham, Peel and…
Date: 2016-03-23
Apendix D shows th attendance of farmers 5 and 6 at the Local Food Procurement Education Workshop.
Appendix E is a chart from October, 2014 that shows the availability of fruits and vegetables throughout the year by…
Apendix F shows th attendance of INFRA Stakeholders 1 and 2 at the Local Food Procurement Education Workshop.
Date: Jan 1, 2016
This paper outlines the potential and the challenges for economic growth and development in the agri-food sector. Examples are outlined…
This 63-page report details the market opportunities and chalenges involved in purchasing fresh food in hospitals, schools and childcare institutions…
Type: Program-Initiative
This document highlights 4 case studies from the 3P Mentorship Program. The case studies feature a hospital, long-term care home,…
This case study highlights Humber College's transition to local sustainable food, as a Mentee in the 3P Purchasing Program. Humber…
This report encompasses a set of recommendations for provincial ministries (eg OMAFRA), food suppliers (farmers), and healthcare personnel with the…
Ten of the largest public institions in Grey Bruce participated in the Instituional Local Food Project. This case study highlights…
The Government of Nova Scotia implemented an Environmentally Responsible Procurement Policy in 2005. This document explains sustainable procurement, and its…
Type: Policy
The City of Thunder Bay is a leading example of sustainable procurement in Ontario. This bylaw, although not specific to…
Date: 2016
In 2011 the Good Food Purchasing Program developed an innovative local food procurement policy aimed at building local markets for…
Type: Website
The Good Food Purchasing Program launched in LA in 2011. The program is a comprehensive and metric-based food procurement policy…
Type: Academic Literature
There is great concern that certain elements of trade agreements limit local/sustainable food procurement. This article examines various trade agreements…
This report covers the research projects, local food procurement challenge, model andd activities in Thunder Bay.
Summary Report Appendix A is about BPSIF loca food procurement Project Education workshop attendance for four farmers on March 20…
Appendix C shows the attendance for procurement 1 and 2 from various organizations on April 17 and 18 at the…
Date: 2015-03-06
This toolkit guide was prepared by the Guelph Wellington Local food to help individuals, public sectors and organizations source and…
Date: 2015-01-30
This paper addresses the industry challenges of insuring local food comes from safe sources. The paper outlines the Hazard Analysis…
This executive summary highlights the key findings across several case studies that can be used as guidelines for future investments…
Date: 2014-12-23
This article outlines the regulations the Broader Public Sector (BPS) for food in Long Term Care facilities and school boards.…
Date: 2014-11-25
This paper discusses how to define local food. A discussion of different defintions about local food from Ontario and national…
Date: 2014-08-27
This paper outlines the way food is purchased in the Broader Public Sector(BPS) and the difference between commercial and institutional…
Date: 2014-08-18
The paper discusses the challenges of prioritizing local food in lieu of trade agreements that create barriers against local food.…
Date: 2013-02-12
Discussions in this report were centred on the absence of a generally acceptable definition of Ontario Processed Food (OPF) in…
Date: 26/3/2012
This report acknowledges the funding received from Greenbelt funds and the Ontario government. It also reports expanding its work to…
Date: 2012
The multiplier effect is a commonly cited rationale for supporting local food. Essentially the multiplier effect is the amount of…
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