BC Food Systems Network Gathering

Gambier Island July 5-8, 2012 at Camp Fircom

This year’s theme of the Gathering is Reclaiming our Food Systems: Policy and Practice. The Gathering will blend scheduled workshops, presentations and activities with unstructured time and space to encourage informal sharing, socializing or quiet contemplation. During the Gathering there will be opportunities to explore exciting initiatives that reclaim elements of the food system as well as discussions about the network’s policy priorities, including water rights and access, food labeling and GMOs, agricultural land use and urban agriculture, to name a few.

A food system is defined as the resources and processes that are required to feed a population. It includes producing, processing, shipping, storing, selling and consuming food, as well as the management of waste associated with all of these processes. Most of our current food policy supports the industrial food system. One of the goals of the Network is to develop and advocate policies to redesign food systems to alleviate hunger and promote sustainability – food policy that places community food security as the highest priority.