Posts Tagged ‘sustainable agriculture’
Toronto Food Policy Council- An Example for the World
Posted in Models, RDAG by Devin Maeztri on April 16th, 2009
The City of Toronto created the Toronto Food Policy Council (TFPC) in 1991 in the absence of federal and provincial leadership on food security.
TFPC partners with business and community groups (including City Councillors and volunteer representatives from consumer, business, farm, labour, multicultural, anti-hunger advocacy, faith, and community development groups) to develop policies and programs promoting food security – the TFPC has been instrumental in putting Food Security and Food Policy development squarely on the municipal agenda in Toronto
Tags: community, food security, local food production, sustainable agriculture, Toronto Food Policy, urban agriculture
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Call for Proposals – “The Integration of Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development in the Context of Climate Change, the Energy Crisis and Food Insecurity”
Posted in Events by fedwards on November 24th, 2008
What: This Conference is aimed at independent research organizations, universities, government agencies, policy-makers, public policy advocates, nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and corporate representatives from developing and developed countries. All of these stakeholders are interested in looking critically at the ways in which research is – and can be – used to create change worldwide. This Scientific Meeting will endeavor not only to share research results, but also to identify future research prospects, challenges, issues and concerns. Moreover, the organizers of this Meeting would like to generate innovative thinking in agricultural and rural development and to identify elements of a longer term research agenda to fill critical gaps in knowledge on these issues – through rigorous, defensible data collection, analysis interpretation and communication. They also would like to develop research projects and networks in these fields involving researchers from both developed and developing countries: believing that partnerships among researchers are critical components of any meaningful effort to develop synergistic research and change agendas.
When: November 12-14, 2009
Where: Agadir (Morocco)
For more information: http://2009-international-conference.synthasite.com
Deadline for abstracts is January 15, 2009.
Tags: call for proposals, conference, Morrocco, Research, seeking papers, sustainable agriculture
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