We believe that the key to food security is income security. To that end
we concentrate on issues of income maintainance, and advocate for adequate
welfare, dignity for low-income people and access to appropriate social
services (affordable housing, childcare, etc.). I do not believe you can
talk about food policy to promote lack of nutritious food without
considering the fact that hundreds of thousands of Canadians cannot afford
to go to the supermarket and purchase the food they need. To that end, I
recommend you check out a couple of websites created by Daily Bread Food
Bank: www.dailybread.ca (look at research and public
education/publications) or by looking at the campaign to Pay the Rent and
Feed the Kids: website www.paytherent.ca. The latter is being updated
almost daily as the campaign gets under way. We also have a "Community
Action Cookbook" of ways to influence legislators. It is not up on the
webside yet, but you could get it by calling Loreen Barbour at 4160203-0050
ext. 238.
At 04:45 PM 17/02/2003 -0400, you wrote:
>Could you please post this on the click4hp listserve...thank you
>
>
>We are working on a research project on food security, at both a provincial
>and national level, in Nova Scotia. For this project we are seeking
>information on:
>
>1. Existing food security information packages and presentions, and public
>education and advocacy tools.
>2. The process of influencing/developing healthy public policy.
>3. Engaging policy makers.
>4. Initiating food in/security and food policy discourse.
>
>Any articles/reports/guides/tool-kits that you or your organization are aware
>of would be of great assistance. This also includes any information about what
>your organization may have done, or is presently doing. We are basically
>looking for any information that you may have on HOW you have done the things
>you have done? What was learned from the process? And the clincher - What
>would you recommend as a strategy (or best practices, if you will) to others
>who are attempting to raise awareness and understanding, and ultimately
>encourage policy action on an issue that is not widely recognized or
>understood.
>
>Please forward any information, or questions, that you may have to:
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>If you are interested in more information on this research project please see:
>http://www.medicine.dal.ca/ahprc/FoodSecurity.html
>
>Meredith Kratzmann
>MA Candidate, Health Promotion, Dalhousie University
>Research Assistant
>Nova Scotia Nutrition Council/Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
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>Meredith Kratzmann
>MA Candidate, Health Promotion, Dalhousie University
>Research Assistant
>Nova Scotia Nutrition Council/Atlantic Health Promotion Research Centre
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Sue Cox
Executive Director
Daily Bread Food Bank
Tel:(416) 203-0050 ext. 235
Fax:(416) 203-0049
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