Fwd: Shaping the Future of Food in Canada!
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From Susan Hubay:
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Please Join Us In Shaping the Future of Food in Canada
Please accept this invitation to participate in the People's Food Policy Project, a unique opportunity to develop a concrete food sovereignty policy for Canada. Together, we are building a policy framework that will ensure good food for everyone; that will value food providers; that will build food systems that are controlled locally; and that will honour ecosystems and traditional knowledge.
The moment to transform our food system is now.
The People's Food Policy Project reflects growing concerns about the health and sustainability of our food system, and an ever more visible movement to create the elements of a different system based in a robust local food economy. You can see it in farmers' markets, community kitchens, community gardens, and community programs to ensure everyone has food. It's out there in Eat Local campaigns and food policy councils and food charter initiatives in cities and towns across the country. It can also be seen in struggles to protect heritage seeds, and endangered lands, waterways, and species from salmon to caribou.
Now is the moment to pull all these elements together to create a culture, an environment and a policy context for a just and sustainable food system. Like its predecessor, the People's Food Commission, (1977-1980, www.peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/aboutus<http://www.peoplesfoodpolicy.ca/aboutus>), members of the PFPP include small-scale farmers and fishers, health advocates, farm and trade union members, Aboriginal peoples, researchers and people dedicated to the eradication of hunger, environmental degradation and the exploitation of lands and peoples.
Building policy from the ground up!
In the first phase of the project, policy ideas will be collected (June - December 2009) and summarized (December 2009 - March 2010). Twenty-four dedicated volunteer Animators across the country have committed to holding meetings and events to develop federal food policy submissions. These policy submissions will be taken up by nine different Policy Writing Teams (each focused on a different theme) and summarized into the first draft of the People's Food Policy (December 2009 - March 2010). In phase two (April - November 2010), the draft policy platform will be the base for discussions with diverse stakeholders in the food system, to ensure that it addresses the needs of the peoples of Canada. These deliberations will feed into the final version of the People's Food Policy, to be launched in November 2010.
In order for the first draft of the People's Food Policy to reflect the breadth and depth of the food movement, we need you and your organization to contribute your policy ideas before December 1st, 2009.
Many of you have already developed an analysis, some of you have written papers, and some organizations have developed policy recommendations for local and Federal government. Others will want to hold a meeting within your organization to gather the most recent policy ideas. Please share your wisdom and knowledge with us, and in so doing, contribute to the future of food in Canada.
The process is simple and is elaborated in more detail in the attached document. Gather your papers, your positions, your proposals, and your food policies and send them to us using the 'policy submission template' (within attachment) . If you have any questions, please don't hesitate to contact me at peoplesf...@gmail.com<http://ca.mc883.mail.yahoo.com/mc/compose?to=peoplesf...@gmail.com> or by phone at (514) 342-5291.
All the best,
Amanda Sheedy
National Coordinator
People's Food Policy Project
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