Social Justice

BECAUSE WE VALUE SOCIAL JUSTICE, WE SUPPORT

• Dignified access to healthy and local food for all.
• A living wage for the production of food, and a safe and respectful environment for all farmers and people who work to feed others.
• Increased access to land for people interested in growing and facilities for processing food.
• Income, education, employment, housing, and transportation policies and practices that support access to healthy, sustainable food.

• Income and Food Insecurity reports
  • Addressing Food Insecurity in Peterborough: An Urgent Call to Action (Dec 2023)
  • Household Food Insecurity in Canada in 2022, Research to identify policy options to reduce food insecurity, PROOF (2023)
  • Food in Peterborough after COVID-19 (Oct 2021)
  • Moms Feeding Families on Low Incomes in Peterborough and the Support of Community-based Food Initiatives (April 2018)
  • UN Rapporteur Report, Right to Food (April 2013) 
  • Kawartha Food Share Hunger Count Survey (March 2012)

• Income and Food Insecurity Resources
  • Learn about Peterborough’s Living Wage, and how social policies compare
  • Learn more about food policy in Canada at Food Secure Canada
  • Learn about how Basic Income could support food security at OBIN’s Case for Basic Income for Food Security
  • Learn more about food insecurity at Ontario Dietitians for Public Health, PROOF, Nourish

• Indigenous food sovereignty
  • Harvesting Manoomin (wild rice) video
  • Manoomin (Wild Rice)
  • Sign a Declaration for Protecting Anishinaabe Manoomin (Wild Rice)
  • Nibi Giinwiindawan: We are Water – curriculum for communities, schools, and youth
  • First Nations Food, Nutrition and Environment Study
  • Planning for Food Security Toolkit for the COVID-19 Pandemic – (BC resource from the First Nations Health Authority)

• Housing 
  • Research for Social Change Lab Publications
  • Housing is Fundamental , United Way (October 2022)
  • Food Access, Housing Security and Community Connections: A Case Study of Peterborough, Ontario (October 2015)
  • Presentation to PFAN (January 2016)

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