Food Initiatives Greenhouse
32 Resources
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…
Type: Report/Working Paper
Date: Dec 13, 2017
This report looks at a failing food system, sustainable production challenges, equity challenges, resilience challenges, ideas to grow a better…
Type: Toolkit
Date: Oct 13, 2017
This guide aids with Sustain Ontario’s efforts to help create a more sustainable food system; and this guide expands the…
Date: 2017
This online toolkit is compiled by a University of Northern British Columbia professor, and aims to help planners and policy…
Type: Annual Report
Date: 2016
This report provides the overview to heritage farmland areas that are protected properties in Ontario. There are brief notes on…
Types: Academic Literature, Impact Report, Planning Tool
Date: March 2006
This report overviews the changes in British Columbia (BC)’s agricultural land reserve as urban development pushes into farming areas. The…
Types: Academic Literature, Impact Report
Date: August 2012
This reports offers another argument to the justifications of pro- farmland preservation- that of carbon sequestration. The report highlights the…
Types: Academic Literature, Policy
Date: 2014
This legislative review is a summary of the Standing Committee on General Government review of the Aggregate Resources Act. They…
Type: Policy
Date: June 14, 2011
This document outlines the rules and regulations for keeping backyard hens in Kingston. It reflects what is written in the…
Types: Policy, Report/Working Paper
Date: January 29, 2016
This informative report provides an understanding of the current status of community garden policy in Chatham-Kent. The report includes the…
Date: March 12, 2013
A 2013 report put out by the Congressional Research Service that aims to draw attention to the importance of local…
Type: Website
Date: 2012
A website abstracted from the Ottawa Food Action Plan, authored by the Food For All Project and outlining proposed changes…
Date: n/a
An online resource library of materials related to community gardens, broken down into 14 categories, including community and school garden…
Date: November 23, 2015
A report based on key informant interviews with developers, landowners, and other private sector stakeholders to better understand factors facilitating…
Date: February 1, 2016
A website outlining the city of Edmonton's public consutations and subsequent changes to zoning bylaws to permit urban gardens in…
Type: Policy Brief or Recommendations
A website promoting urban agriculture and situating it in historical, cultural, and policy contexts. The site additionally provides various rationales…
Date: April 1, 2009
A research report reviewing the then (2009) current state of urban agriculture in Toronto's Hydro Corridors, and making specific policy…
Date: May 2011
Toronto Public Health; Parks, Forestry and Recreation; and the Toronto Environment Office developed this soil assessment guide. This document is…
Type: Infographic
Date: July 1, 2007
A two-page pamplet targeting municipalities interested in re-developing brownfield sites. The document makes recommendations about remediation of brownfields, encouraging private…
Date: June 18, 2008
A briefing document from the medical officer of health, in 2008, that makes recommendations on reducing exposure to Electromagnetic Fields,…
Date: February 11, 2016
This website is aimed at individuals or groups who are looking to find space for agriculture in a municiple setting.…
Date: October 1, 2012
This action plan aimed at urban growers, policy makers, and supporting organizations is built on a consultation process following the…
Date: May 1, 2013
This report is aimed at decision an policy makers in the city of Hamilton, to develop a regulatory environment more…
Date: July 1, 2008
One of a series of background reports designed to inform the next Offical Plan for the City of Vaughan. The…
Date: June 1, 2010
This report aimed at urban growers, policy makers, and supporting organizations provides an environmental scan of urban agriculture at the…
Date: Unknown
This guide is designed to help municipal governments to consider a range of initiatives in relation to the proposed Bill…
Date: Jan 1, 2016
This report encompasses a set of recommendations for provincial ministries (eg OMAFRA), food suppliers (farmers), and healthcare personnel with the…
This research study reviews relevant bylaws in the Cornwall and Stormont-Dundas-Glengarry region of Eastern Ontario with respect to the regulation…
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: 2008
In 2008 the City of Toronto adopted the Local Food Procurement Policy as part of the implementation of the Climate…
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