Land Back
There is an unbreakable connection between Indigenous food sovereignty and land. Thus, it is impossible to talk about food security and sovereignty without also acknowledging the colonial practice of stealing […]
A Deep Dive into the Temporary Foreign Workers Program
Temporary Foreign Workers in Canada The Canadian Federation of Agriculture says that, “International workers are essential to the production of food in Canada and have been for over 50
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National Pharmacare and Household Food Insecurity Briefing Note
Danielle and Joyce, two students in their second year of the U of M Pharmacy Program, have been working with FMM these last few months to produce a brief summary
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Navigating Seasonal Donations
As discussed briefly in last month’s article on reconsidering the charitable response to food insecurity, PROOF lays out the rationale for why the food charity model is ultimately unsustainable and
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Household Food Insecurity: How do we move away from the food charity response?
As we previously discussed in our Policy Alternatives and Food Security blog article, data and research demonstrate that poverty is the cause of household food insecurity. Food banks were created
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A Dive into Food Secure and Insecure Experiences
Food Security is an Experience Discussing food security in concrete ways can be difficult to do, as food security is an individual experience that is felt; naturally, this will
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‘Food Apartheid’ and Other Food Security Terms
FMM has used the term ‘food desert’ in the past to define urban low-income neighborhoods where the nearest full-service grocery store is not within walking distance. However, as mentioned in
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Talking about Food, Weight, and Body Size
It is almost impossible to facilitate food skills and nutrition education workshops without participants or facilitators bringing up relationships between food and weight, or food and body size. So, how
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Food Guide Snapshot
The new and revised Canada’s Food Guide (CFG), released in January 2019, provide healthy eating recommendations to: The CFG revision transpired to ensure information is aligned with the most updated resource on
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Indigenous Food Security and Sovereignty
The Right to Food In the Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights, General Comment 14 states that: the right to food is supported when there are respect, protection,
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