[BCFSN] URGENT: 2, 4-D tolerant crops approved in Canada - please contact health minister

[Abra Brynne]

Here are three more important food policies out of Vancouver that are not
in this data base

http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/vancouver-food-strategy-final.PDF
http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/Local-food-action-plan.pdf
http://vancouver.ca/files/cov/Van_Food_Charter.pdf


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On Tue, Oct 21, 2014 at 8:01 AM, Kimberley Hodgson <kim at chplaces.com> wrote:

> Food System Professionals,​
>
>
> I am pleased to announce the launch of a new searchable database
> containing enacted local government food policies. The database contains
> ​over ​
> 100 newly adopted local government policies aimed to strengthen food
> systems.
> ​
>
> The *Growing Food Connections Policy Database, *hosted by the School of
> Architecture and Planning at the University at Buffalo, will assist local
> governments as they work to broaden access to healthy food and help sustain
> local farms and food producers.
>
>
>
> Growing Food Connections, a federally-funded research initiative to
> strengthen community food systems nationwide, has compiled over 100
> policies governing issues as diverse as public investment in food systems,
> farmland protection, local food procurement and food policy council
> resolutions. The Growing Food Connections Policy Database was launched
> ​yesterday
>  at the American Farmland Trust’s national conference, which includes
> sessions on food systems policy, in Lexington, KY, and is available online:
> http://growingfoodconnections.org/tools-resources/policy-database/
> ​.​
>
> ​
> ​For more information click see
> http://www.buffalo.edu/news/releases/2014/10/028.html.
>
> Kim
>
> *Kimberley Hodgson, MURP, MS, AICP, RD*
> Founder / Principal, Cultivating Healthy Places | Vancouver, BC
> w. cultivatinghealthyplaces.com
> e. kim at chplaces.com
> t. @planning4health
>
> *Read about Growing Food Connections, a new 5-year food systems project,
> at growingfoodconnections.org <http://growingfoodconnections.org/>.*
>
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