Learn More about Food Security
Food security means many different things to many different people. Defining food security in the wider global context of poverty and hunger alleviation is a complex topic – but good starting point for understanding is via the “4 A’s” of food security. Healthy food should be:
Use the links below as a launching point for your discovery of what’s happening around the world related to sustainable food movements – from the global level all the way to our own backyards.
Global Level
- WHY – Finding Answers for Hunger and Poverty – www.whyhunger.org
- Global Forum on Food Security and Nutrition – km.fao.org
- La Via Campesina – www.viacampesina.org
- Slow Food Movement – www.slowfood.com
- World Food Programme – Overview on World Hunger – www.wfp.org/hunger
- World Summit on Food Security – www.fao.org/wsfs/world-summit/en
- Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the United Nations – www.fao.org
- World Health Organization (WHO): Global Food Security Crisis – www.who.int/food_crisis/
National Level – Canada
- People’s Food Policy Project – peoplesfoodpolicy.ca
- Seeds of Diversity – www.seeds.ca
- Canadian Organic Growers – www.cog.ca
- Food Secure Canada – foodsecurecanada.org
- Centre for Studies in Food Security – Ryerson University – www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity
- Beyond Factory Farming – beyondfactoryfarming.org
- Farmers’ Markets Canada – www.farmersmarketscanada.ca
- Green Communities Canada – greencommunitiescanada.org
Local Level – Ontario and Toronto
- The Stop Community Food Centre – www.thestop.org
- FoodShare – www.foodshare.net
- Toronto Community Garden Network – www.tcgn.ca
- Afri-Can Food Basket – www.africanfoodbasket.com
- Everdale Environmental Learning Centre – www.everdale.org
- Evergreen – www.evergreen.ca
- Greenest City – www.greenestcity.ca
- Harvest Ontario – www.harvestontario.com
- Local Food Plus – www.localfoodplus.ca
- Sustain Ontario – sustainontario.com
- Toronto Food Policy Council – www.toronto.ca/health
