Resource Pointer #385: Local Food Systems

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Resource Pointer #385: Local Food Systems

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Resource Pointer #385 (Local Food Systems)

May 31, 2005

 

For copies of the following resources, please contact the appropriate

publishers or organizations directly.

 

*Eat Here: Reclaiming Homegrown Pleasures in a Global Supermarket,

2004* Brian Galwell. Points towards a growing movement for local food

that

exists outside of the corporate, global food system. Argues that eating

local food is one of the most significant choices we can make to

protect public health and the environment and preserve the cultural and

social benefits of small farms. 237 pages. $13.95. Contact Worldwatch

Institute, P.O. Box 188, Williamsport, PA 17703-9913; phone (888)

544-2303;

fax (570) 320-2079; email wwpub; website

http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5wa6pTC3b/

 

*Food Share, Website*http://www.foodshare.net/. Food Share focuses on

the entire system that puts food on our table-from the growing,

processing and distribution of food to its purchasing, cooking and

consumption.

Describes several innovative grassroots projects that promote healthy

eating, teach food preparation and cultivation, and develop

non-market-based forms of food distribution. FoodShare promotes

policies, such as

adequate social assistance rates, sustainable agriculture, universal

funding of community-based programs and nutrition education, that will

make food a priority at all levels of society. Contact Field to Table

Centre, 200 Eastern Avenue, Toronto ON M5A 1J1; phone (416) 363-6441; fax

(416) 363-0474; email info.

 

*Together at the Table: Sustainability and Sustenance in the American

Agri-food System, 2004* Patricia Allen. Spotlights successful

alternatives to the U.S. industrial agricultural model. Shows how

ideas and

practices of sustainable agriculture and community food security have

begun

to weave their way into the dominant agri-food institutions. Explores

the potential for these alternative models to improve social and

environmental justice. 260 pages. $45.00. Contact The Pennsylvania State

University Press, 820 North University Drive, University Support

Building 1,

Suite C, University Park, PA 16802; phone (814) 865-1327; fax (814)

863-1408; email info; website

http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5xa6pTC3b/

 

*A Systemic Approach to Community Food Security: A Role for Public

Health, 2002* Ontario Public Health Association. Addresses the role

public

health can play at the municipal level in the overall process of

building food security and presents a plan of action. 21 pages.

Available as

a free download at: http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5ya6pTC3b/

Contact OPHA, 468 Queen St. East, Ste 202, Toronto ON M5A 1T7; phone

(416) 367-3313; fax (416) 367-2844; email info; website

http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5za6pTC3b/

 

*The Way to a City's Heart is Through Its Stomach, 2001* Wayne Robert,

PhD. Suggests that urban planners and government officials need to

consider food systems and food security in city planning agendas.

Serves as

an introduction to the policy implications of food security for

planners, and includes a review of food security issues in a draft

version of

Toronto's official plan, along with a proposal for change. 59 pages.

Available as a free download at:

http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5Aa6pTC3b/ Contact Toronto Food

Policy Council, 277 Victoria Street, Ste 203, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W1;

phone (416) 392-1107; fax (416) 392-1357; email

tfpc; website

http://panups.c.topica.com/maadzQyabhq5Ba6pTC3b/

 

 

 

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