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Growing Green
Sustainable Food Systems Law & Policy Reform
Project Partners:
FarmFolk/CityFolkWest Coast Environmental Law
Liu Institute for Global Issues (UBC)
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Mar 12 2004: Wrap & Launch!
• Interactive progress report• Highlight voluntary sector
partners’ projects• Provide policy tools & techniques• Strengthen networks• Celebrate successes• Discuss strategic directions
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Thanks to our Funders
• Tides Canada &• Government of Canada’s
Voluntary Sector Initiative• through Agriculture & Agri-Food
Canada
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Project Team• West Coast Environmental Law
(Lawrence Alexander), (Mark Haddock), Chris Rolfe
• FarmFolk/CityFolkHerb Barbolet, Kathleen Gibson
• Liu Institute for Global IssuesEvan Fraser, Kristina Bouris
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What is Growing Green?
• Two-year law & policy reform project on sustainable food systems
• Focused on Southwestern BC: exurban Vancouver & Victoria
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Project Objectives
• Develop in strategic areas, practical law & policy models & reform proposals
• Strengthen capacity of voluntary organizations to contribute to law & policy
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Case for Growing Green
• Food system produces environmental services• Food system needs to produce more
environmental services to be sustainable• Wide spectrum of solutions proposed, including:
– Help sustainable farmers by removing regulatory barriers
– Prepare ‘Plan B’ to current reliance on cheap fuel– Overhaul system; build a local food economy
• Growing Green: reforms that offer meaningful progress towards all three
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• Over 50 potential projects identified in collaboration with farm, food, & voluntary organizations
• Priorities shaped & determined with advice from Reference Group, based on:– Requested by voluntary sector group?– Can Growing Green can add value?– Practical, useful, & doable?
Strategic Law/Policy Reform
Determining policy priorities
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Policy PrioritiesMaking sustainable food systems
work
• Community-based food councils in GVRD & CRD
• Model OCPs & Bylaws• Junk food in schools
(with Environmental Law Centre)• Public health
legislation• Small-scale food
processors
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Policy PrioritiesMaking sustainable food systems
pay• Co-farming/multi-family
housing• Short-term farmland
leases• Farmland trusts &
conservation covenants• Organics & regulated
marketing• Ecological services:
incentives & rewards
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Voluntary Sector Capacity
• Contacted ~ 40 organizations• Identified ~10 strategic partners• “Sharing the Benefits” program• Tools• Roles• Links
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Voluntary Sector CapacityKey strategic partners
• Lower Mainland Food Coalition: re-convened coalition, assisted input to local/regional govt
• CR-FAIR: helped expand coalition, assisted input to local/regional govt
• SSFPA: assisted with strategy & positioning re: provincial govt
• COABC: helped link to FIRB review• The Land Conservancy: proposed &
helped facilitate farmland trust pilot
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Voluntary Sector Capacity“Sharing the Benefits” program
Policy dialogues with/for:• BC Food Systems Network• COABC• CR-FAIR• Salt Spring Farmers’ Institute• Land Trust Alliance• POLIS Project• Small-Scale Food
Processors Association• Your Local Farmers’
Market Society
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Voluntary Sector CapacityTools
• Advisory memos: policy strategy & tactics
• Blueprints: policy options• Workshop: Local Government 101• Key reference: state of the art
community-based food councils• Seminar: How to Enhance Your Policy
Input• Mind map: of sustainable food systems
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Voluntary Sector CapacityRoles & Links
• “Honest broker” roles between voluntary sector & government agencies
• New policy links & partnerships between voluntary sector, legal & academic communities
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Project Promotion• www.ffcf.bc.ca/GrowingGreen.html• Collaboration with ~40 voluntary
sector organizations• Contact with 22 regulators: federal,
provincial, regional, local• ~30 special
presentations in BC, Ottawa, U.K., U.S.A., Italy
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Policy PrioritiesKey results 1/2
• LMFC: Vancouver Food Policy Council
• CR-FAIR: CRD Food Policy Reference Group
• SSFPA: organizational & project development
• Islands farmers & processors: meat inspection regulation intervention
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Policy PrioritiesKey results 2/2
• TLC, Salt Spring Farmers’ Institute: farmland trust pilot project
• COABC: policy options for regulated marketing of organics
• Policy incentives & rewards re: farms’ ecological services
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Project Summary
• Policy recommendations & tools summary in development
• Full report, all materials posted on Web site:www.ffcf.bc.ca/GrowingGreen.html
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Ancillary Projects“Think piece” on BC agri-food
• Farm & food businesses, other aspects of food systems that are off government radar or fall between cracks
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Ancillary ProjectsCase studies
• Engeler Farm• Noble Food & Education Centre• Local sourcing for school food
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Project made possible by:
• Funders• Voluntary sector partners• Reference Group• Project Team• Consultants & volunteers
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Reference Group 1/2
• Bruce Bakker, horticulture producer• Marion Best, World Council of Churches• Larry Bomford, BC Institute of Agrologists• Oliver Brandes, POLIS Project• Ben Bradshaw, Geography, SFU• Linda Geggie, GroundWorks• Charan Gill, PICS• Cathleen Kneen, BC Food Systems
Network• (Don Knoerr, rancher)
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Reference Group 2/2
• Lorna Medd, Northern Health Authority• Bob McCoubrey, organic farmer• Heather Pritchard, FarmFolk/CityFolk• Moura Quayle, Agricultural Sciences,
UBC• Wayne Roberts, Toronto Food Policy
Council• Daphne Sidaway-Wolf, MAFF• Ramesh Singal, PICS• Shelley Wells, Quest Outreach Society