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Category Archives: Food Security
How Change Happens: Inspiring Examples from Urban Food Policy
Amazon Extends Tentacles Further With $13.4 Billion Purchase of Whole Food
“This is extreme consolidation of the food system in action, which will lead to higher prices, fewer choices for consumers, and bigger profits for billionaires like its owner, Jeff Bezos,” says Wenonah Hauter of Food & Water Watch.
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/15LJW8ENNYzd5_r3ifVinsozTzmZNvYupB0n1d3i_2aw/edit#slide=id.g22f3936bc0_0_105
Activists Clayton Thomas-Müller and Vandana Shiva connect climate and social justice
On Wednesday May 31, environmental justice activists Clayton Thomas-Müller and Vandana Shiva will speak on this year’s theme, Social Justice = Environmental Justice: Rethink! Reclaim! Respect!
http://rabble.ca/news/2017/05/activists-clayton-thomas-m%C3%BCller-and-vandana-shiva-connect-climate-and-social-justice
Ottawa prepares to hand over historic federal farmland to corporate developers
The decision by Heritage Minister Melanie Jolie, Federal Environment Minister Catherine McKenna, Provincial MP Yasir Naqvi, and Mayor Jim Watson on December 2nd, 2016 to overturn the six month NCC Site Review Study only 1 week after the announcement of Tunney’s Pasture as the best choice, was the height of arrogance and abuse of power.
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India’s stance on food security vindicated at WTO: Sitharaman
Helpful development for people-to-people dialogue between Canada and India.
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