food security
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These websites relate to the availability of food and one’s access to it. Popular topics include local agriculture including farmers’ markets and community gardens, the agricultural economy, the rising costs of importing food, and the decreasing land available to grow food.
BC Association of Farmers’ Markets
CBC radio -- The Current -- Vandana Shiva interview
CBC video -- Nutty in the (Annapolis) Valley
CED Works hotlist on local food systems
Charity: water -- inspirational video
Detroit Lives -- YouTube video
Economic Development and Redevelopment: a toolkit
Farm for the Future -- UK video
Farm Start -- Supporting a new generation of farmers
Growing Life: Audio / Visual Docs
Guardian UK article: Loss of wild pollinators serous threat to crop yields
Guardian UK article: Residents join forces to feed themselves
Guardian UK article: Plans for 'GM food revolution' come under fire
Guardian UK article: Britain must grow more sustainable food
How we can eat our landscapes -- TED Talk
Independent UK article -- Gentrification game -- defending traditional markets
Lay of the Land: Local Food Initiatives in Canada
L.A. Times article -- Investors see farms as way to grow Detroit
Lifecycles Project (Victoria BC)
NY Times article -- the permaculture movement grows from underground
Plastics in the Food Industry (US site)
Small Scale Food Processor Association (BC)
Telegraph UK article -- High food prices here to stay
The Food System -- Swiss white paper
Tyee article – Slow Food’s Growing Pains
Urban water harvesting systems -- Brad Lancaster video
Vancouver Magazine article -- The Future of Vancouver's Farmland
Vancouver Sun article – Oil, climate change threaten food supply
What's wrong with our food system... You Tube presentation by 11 year-old Birke Baehr