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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"local food security"”.
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The City of Colwood : how can this community, with no functional ALR or other agricultural land, move towards greater food security?
Food security continues to be an area of concern worldwide. In Canada, our ability to feed ourselves has diminished significantly and on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, we produce less than 5% of the food we consume. A number of factors have influenced this decline including the globalization …
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Feeding India: Community Gardens and their Food Security Potential
… thesis explores the historical reasons behind food insecurity in India, especially the changes in common property resource management and land ownership rights. Because common property resources are supplementary and require less expensive inputs, they are cheap, easy to grow, and available …
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Mapping and modeling British Columbia's food self-sufficiency
Interest in local food security has increased in the last decade, stemming from concerns surrounding environmental sustainability, agriculture, and community food security. Promotions for consumption of locally produced foods have come from activists, non-governmental organizations, as well as some …
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Assessment of nutraceutical attributes of selected wild edible fruit plants used by Vhavenda people of the Thulamela Local Municipality
… of people. Many of these plants are harvested by local communities to augment and diversify their diets as well as to promote local food security. The decline in the use of wild edible fruit plants may be due to a lack of knowledge of their nutritional value, their potential for income generation, …
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A Reflective Practitioner Approach to Food System Planning in Calgary, Alberta
… municipalities across Canada are implementing food system assessments and action plans to better understand and address issues related to urban food systems. In 2012, the City of Calgary released “Calgary EATS!: A Food System Assessment and Action Plan” (CE), a comprehensive report and action …