Resetting The Table, A people’s Food Policy For Canada: Food Sovereignty in Rural and Remote Communities
This policy position paper looks at the industrial food system and how it has raised numerous challenges for the food sovereignty of rural and remote communities. Communities far away have higher costing food and lack nutrition. Rural communities have little-required facilities to inspect or process food for local consumption and food knowledge relevant to the local ecology is being lost, while research and training opportunities are focused on techniques not suited to the diverse bio-regions in the country. Some solutions to the food sovereignty crisis strengthen the capacity for these communities to provide food for local and regional consumption. By building the resilience of each community’s food system, they build a diverse, local, and resilient national food system. Many proposed solutions are presented in the report.