Discussion Papers

As the discussion papers become ready, they will be linked to the titles below (click on the title of the discussion paper you would like to read).  For the time being, this will bring you to the Executive Summary of the discussion paper with a PDF that you can choose to download.  Over the course of the summer, we will be putting the discussion papers online so that you don't need to download them.

Discussion Paper 1 - Indigenous Food Sovereignty

Discussion Paper 2 - Poverty and Access to Food in Rural and Remote Communities

We envision rural and remote communities empowered with the capacity to offer their citizens nutritious food within a resilient food system. »

Discussion Paper 3 - Poverty and Access to Food in Urban Communities

Discussion Paper 4 - Agriculture, Infrastructure and Livelihoods

Canada’s farm sector is one of the world’s least profitable. Our food production system is one of the world’s most export-focused—Canada has quadrupled food exports since the late 1980s. Our food system is energy-inefficient and climate-destabilizing. »

Discussion Paper 5 - Fisheries, Infrastructure and Livelihoods

Discussion Paper 6 - Sustainability and Food

The global food system relies on relatively cheap energy and plentiful nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizer to produce cheap ingredients for excessively processed and packaged food. Energy for agriculture is mostly derived from fossil fuels while nitrogen fertilizer itself swallows one third of the entire agricultural energy budget. Phosphorus fertilizer comes mostly from deposits in Florida and Morocco. »

Discussion Paper 7 - Science, Technology and Food

Discussion Paper 8 - Food, Aid and Trade

Discussion Paper 9 - Food and Human Health

Discussion Paper 10 - Food Democracy and Citizen Action

In the previous chapters of this report we have documented the policy recommendations that residents of Canada and Indigenous People have contributed with the broad goal of establishing an equitable, ecologically sustainable and just food system that will provide healthy, acceptable, accessible and safe foods for all. While it is vital to ask what policy changes should be made, we must also consider how this change is going to happen and who should take responsibility. »