Cultivating Food Justice through Collective Action
Photo Credit: Heather Farmer, Sole Food Street Farms
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A far more vocal food movement and public in recent years are now demanding upstream solutions that will support a more just food system in the face of persistent and worsening food insecurity. From the local to the global, structural inequality and social exclusion have long driven hunger, while the dominant and harmful food charity model is completely inadequate in addressing hunger. A corporate-controlled food system is ensuring industry profit while driving up diet related chronic illness, while climate impacts now threaten our food supply.
Building on the strength of Vancouver's highly collaborative and networked food community that has been cultivated over the last 30 years provides the essential groundwork for the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition to organize and build on the growing awareness and need for change.
As such, the Vancouver Food Justice Coalition formed to create space for community-based organizations and those with lived and living experience to join forces and engage in meaningful policy and advocacy work. We aim to advance food justice with community knowledge - working through a community driven, collaborative, and cross-sectoral movement building that support meaningful systems change work.
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