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Title Food sovereignty in Canada : creating just and sustainable food systems / edited by Hannah Wittman, Annette Aurélie Desmarais & Nettie Wiebe
Published Halifax, N.S. : Fernwood Pub., [2011]
©2011

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Description xii, 220 pages : map ; 23 cm
Contents Nurturing Food Sovereignty in Canada (Nettie Wiebe & Kevin Wipf) -- Advancing agriculture by destroying farms? The State of Agriculture in Canada and the Need for Food Sovereignty (Darrin Qualman) -- Getting to Food Sovereignty :grassroots perspectives from the National Farmers Union (Interviews with Terry Boehm and Hilary Moore, conducted by Naomi Beingessner) -- Transforming agriculture : Women Farmers Define a Food Sovereignty Policy for Canada (Annette Aurélie Desmarais, Carla Roppel & Diane Martz)
Food Secure Canada: Where Agriculture, Environment, Health, Food and Justice Intersect (Cathleen Kneen) -- Indigenous Food Sovereignty: A Model for Social Learning [Native or Aboriginal peoples] (Dawn Morrison) -- The Limits of Farmer Control: Food Sovereignty and Conflicts over the Canadian Wheat Board (André Magnan) -- Community Nutrition Practice and Research: Integrating a Food Sovereignty Approach (Rachel Engler-Stringer) -- Growing Community: Community Gardens as a Local Practice of Food Sovereignty (Yolanda Hansen) -- Food Sovereignty in the Golden Horseshoe Region of Ontario (Harriet Friedmann) -- "Super, Natural" : The Potential for Food Sovereignty in British Columbia (Hannah Wittman & Herb Barbolet)
Summary "Contemporary Canadian agricultural and food policies are contributing to the current global food crisis: the industrialized, high-input, export-driven agricultural production sector, coupled with concentrated corporate processing and retailing, are ecologically unsustainable, increasingly unaffordable, unhealthy and socially unjust. Employing an interdisciplinary and multi-sectoral approach, Food Sovereignty in Canada explores how communities all over the country are actively engaged in implementing alternative agricultural and food models within the framework of food sovereignty -- taking control over food-producing resources, markets and agricultural policy. This framework offers Canadian citizens, researchers and policymakers the opportunity to build alternative agricultural and food models that are less environmentally damaging and that keep farmers on the land while ensuring that those living in cities have access to healthy and safe food
Achieving food sovereignty requires conceptual and practical changes, reshaping menus, farming, communities, relationships, values and policy, but, as the authors clearly demonstrate, the urgent work of building food sovereignty in Canada is well under way. In case studies of practical action, Food Sovereignty in Canada provides an analysis of indigenous food sovereignty, orderly marketing, community gardens, the political engagement of nutritionists, experiences with urban agriculture and the strengthening of links between rural and urban communities. It also highlights policy-related challenges to building community-based agriculture and food systems that are ecologically sustainable and socially just. This book is essential reading for anyone interested in holistic, healthy and sustainable food production and consumption."--pub. desc
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Food sovereignty -- Canada.
Sustainable agriculture -- Canada.
Alternative agriculture -- Canada.
Author Wiebe, Nettie.
Desmarais, Annette Aurelie.
Wittman, Hannah, 1973-
LC no. 2011505481
ISBN 9781552664438
1552664430