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Food Sovereignty Resources
Thanks to everyone who came out to the garden talk last night! I’ve posted a few links to follow up on the request to share some resources on food sovereignty. There’s lots out there but here are a few starting places:
For those interested in further exploring what food sovereignty in Canada looks like:
Resetting the Table: A People’s Food Policy Project for Canada is based in the concept of food sovereignty and was developed by over 3500 people across Canada: http://foodsecurecanada.org/sites/default/files/fsc-resetting2012-8half11-lowres-en.pdf
Food Secure Canada is a national organization working to advance food security and food sovereignty in Canada: http://foodsecurecanada.org/who-we-are/what-food-sovereignty
The Indigenous Food Systems Network was developed by the Working Group on Indigenous Food Sovereignty: 
http://www.indigenousfoodsystems.org/
Food Sovereignty in Canada: Creating Just and Sustainable Food Systems – a good book with a variety of chapters by different authors about various aspects of food sovereignty in Canada: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/food-sovereignty-in-canada
National Farmers Union – Losing Our Grip for further information on land grabs in Canada and an update on the 2010 report “Losing Our Grip: How Corporate Farmland Buy-up, Rising Farm Debt, and Agribusiness Financing of Inputs Threaten Family Farms and Food Sovereignty” (this link also includes further links about land grabbing and concentration in Canada): http://www.nfu.ca/issues/losing-our-grip-2015-update
For those interested in food sovereignty in an international context:
Nyéléni – you can sign up for the Nyéléni newsletter which provides updates and acts as a hub for the international food sovereignty movement: https://nyeleni.org/
You can also find the Nyéléni Declaration here which articulates the current international vision of food sovereignty: https://nyeleni.org/spip.php?article290
La Via Campesina – the original grassroots movement around food sovereignty: https://viacampesina.org/en/
Towards Food Sovereignty: Reclaiming Autonomous Food Systems – an online book with lots of interactive media: http://www.iied.org/towards-food-sovereignty-reclaiming-autonomous-food-systems
Food Sovereignty: Reconnecting Food, Nature and Community – a second Canadian published book on food sovereignty in the international context: https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/food-sovereignty
Food Sovereignty: Towards democracy in localized food systems – you can download a copy for personal use for free here: http://www.ukabc.org/foodsovpaper.htm
Lastly, if you’re interested in the work I’m doing, here’s a link to my research group: https://feast-uoft.org/
You can also find us on twitter @feast_uoft