| Further reflections on COVID-19 food solutions:
“Standing on the threshold: COVID-19 and our food system”, an article by Barbara Emanuel, founding team member of the Food Communities Network, and past manager of the Toronto Food Strategy.
Read here.
A Food Policy Action Plan in the Context of Covid-19.
May 14, 2020
Read here.
Food Secure Canada has published a policy action plan for renewing the country’s food system in response to Covid-19. The action plan names 7 policy priorities:
- Address the root causes of food insecurity
- Build resilient, ecological local food systems
- Support Indigenous food sovereignty
- Champion decent work and justice for workers all along the food chain
- Ensure everyone is at the policy-making table
- Harmonize Canada’s national and international food policies, prioritizing food sovereignty approaches
- Immediately advance a National School Food Program
Food Secure Canada is calling on everyone to spread the word to ensure that this message is heard. Click here to see how: https://foodsecurecanada.org/2020-growing-resilience-equity
The Coronavirus Pandemic: Canada’s Response issue of Policy Options includes a number of articles that discuss the issue of food and poverty:
March 2020
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“Cracks in the global food system more apparent with COVID-19”, by Gisèle Yasmeen, Susan Alexander & Anna Paskal
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“Food banks can’t adequately address COVID-19 food insecurity”, by Valerie Tarasuk & Lynn McIntyre
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“A basic income is not as simple as you might think”, by David A. Green, J. Rhys Kesselman & Lindsay Tedds
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“Les personnes les plus vulnérables face au coronavirus”, par Pierre Tircher et Nicolas Zorn
The price of the Nutritious Food Basket in COVID-19 times (In French).
Le coût du Panier à provision nutritif (PPN) depuis l’apparition de la COVID-19
Published by: Dispensaire diététique de Montréal (Montreal Diet Dispensary)
Read here (in French).
- 3 times a year (January, May and September), the Montreal Diet Dispensary analyses the price of staple foods included in a nutritious food basket in Quebec. In the context of the COVID-19 crisis, the Dispensary decided to do extra analyses: a report will be produced for the months of April, May and June.
- The April report reveals that :
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