[BCFSN] Fwd: When Community Food Security Isn’t Enough: Repairing the Poverty ‘Bridge’ in BC | Part I (MERGED VERSION)

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insecurity and poverty reduction with specific focus on some of the ins and
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When Community Food Security Isn’t Enough: Repairing the Poverty ‘Bridge’
in BC | Part I
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*Published January 18, 2017*

To start off the 2017 Homegrown Story series, the Gateway is taking a
departure from our usual approach of profiling innovative food security
programs from across the province and digging into the issue, and
solutions, to the widespread food insecurity and poverty plaguing BC. To do
so, we spoke with Dr. Valerie Tarasuk, Professor at the University of
Toronto and Principal Investigator with the PROOF: Food Insecurity Policy
Research program as well as with Trish Garner, Community Organizer with the
BC Poverty Reduction Coalition.
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Traditional Knowledge Leads the Way in Learning, Healing, and Rebuilding
Traditional Foodways on Haida Gwaii
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The Place of Systems Change: Practitioners Reflect on Moving from Food
Security Action to Policy in Revelstoke
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*Published November 9, 2016*

A ten year journey in a millennia-old food tradition may seem like a blip
in time but for Shelly Crack and her collaborators, this has been a
significant decade of rebuilding local food systems in schools,
strengthening human networks, and promoting traditional knowledge of land
and food on the islands known as Haida Gwaii.

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*Published October 13, 2016*

Revelstoke is a prime example of a community with a long history of on the
ground food action work that is now transforming the city’s public policy
arena through partnerships and a strong community development ethos.

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