The document discusses building a resilient local food system and outlines seven core solutions, including transitioning to regenerative organic farming and developing a cooperative food economy. Specifically, it proposes establishing 29 regional growers' cooperatives across British Columbia to support local farmers and increase local food production and resilience. The cooperatives would provide shared resources like distribution, storage, supplies and business skills training to help farmers overcome challenges of high land costs, lack of infrastructure and difficulty competing with industrial agriculture. Transitioning the food system in this way over ten years could help address issues of soil health, climate change and economic challenges for farmers.
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a non-profit urban farm project on sanitary district buffer land, using recycled water and sustainable farming practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration in soil. This project focuses on reducing nutritional poverty. It's four goals are: Food Equity; Environment; Education; and Economic Development.
Agroecological local knowledge and participatory learning processesFAO
Presentation from Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, describing the links between Agroecology and local communities and knowledge. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Sustainable food: how to eat more healthy at home and an eventGuy Bigwood
MCI webinar about sustainable food. what is it? Why? And how to incorporate into an event. Some case studies, stories and great pictures.
Updated July 2015
CoCo San Sustainable Farm is a non-profit urban farm project on sanitary district buffer land, using recycled water and sustainable farming practices that reduce GHG emissions and increase carbon sequestration in soil. This project focuses on reducing nutritional poverty. It's four goals are: Food Equity; Environment; Education; and Economic Development.
Agroecological local knowledge and participatory learning processesFAO
Presentation from Miguel Altieri, University of California, Berkeley, describing the links between Agroecology and local communities and knowledge. The presentation was prepared and delivered in occasion of the International Symposium on Agroecology for Food Security and Nutrition, held at FAO in Rome on 18-19 September 2014.
Sustainable food: how to eat more healthy at home and an eventGuy Bigwood
MCI webinar about sustainable food. what is it? Why? And how to incorporate into an event. Some case studies, stories and great pictures.
Updated July 2015
Soil, agriculture, and the future of food by Kiersten LippmannKiersten Lippmann
Beautiful, graphic heavy slides to engage students based on Essential Environment by Withgott and Laposota. Slides cover Chapter 7 Soil, agriculture and the future of food
Sustainable? agriculture and water in California DavidBainbridge5
California has some serious water supply problems. Use in many areas exceeds annual rainfall. Hundreds of thousands of acres will be abandoned. What can be done?
Urban Farming on public land using recycled water will provide low cost fresh produce for schools and food bank and local ciizens and hands-on science and engineering education for youth.
2018 Open Space Conference - The Importance of Working Lands in a Changing WorldOpenSpaceCouncil
*Please note that animations in this presentations are not visible when viewed through Slideshare.
- Kara Heckert, California State Director, American Farmland Trust
- Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
- Jamison Watts, Executive Director, Marin Agricultural Land Trust
- Loren Poncia, Owner and Producer, Stemple Creek Ranch
These panelists spoke at the 2018 Open Space Conference - Conservation in a Time of Change - on May 10, 2018 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, CA. More info on the website: http://openspacecouncil.org/community-events/conference/
Mr. Sebastian Belle - Problems, Stumbling Blocks and Solutions for U.S. Aquac...John Blue
Problems, Stumbling Blocks and Solutions for U.S. Aquaculture - Mr. Sebastian Belle, Executive Director, Maine Aquaculture Association, from the 2013 NIAA Merging Values and Technology conference, April 15-17, 2013, Louisville, KY, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2013-niaa-merging-values-and-technology
Global challenges to food security and poverty alleviationAlain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 19 November 2018 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits)
food waste has been one of the least discussed topics yet so devastating on the environment and human life as global warming and pollution
this ppt discusses the food waste valuation on the global and national context and some of the ways to keep it at bay!
Soil, agriculture, and the future of food by Kiersten LippmannKiersten Lippmann
Beautiful, graphic heavy slides to engage students based on Essential Environment by Withgott and Laposota. Slides cover Chapter 7 Soil, agriculture and the future of food
Sustainable? agriculture and water in California DavidBainbridge5
California has some serious water supply problems. Use in many areas exceeds annual rainfall. Hundreds of thousands of acres will be abandoned. What can be done?
Urban Farming on public land using recycled water will provide low cost fresh produce for schools and food bank and local ciizens and hands-on science and engineering education for youth.
2018 Open Space Conference - The Importance of Working Lands in a Changing WorldOpenSpaceCouncil
*Please note that animations in this presentations are not visible when viewed through Slideshare.
- Kara Heckert, California State Director, American Farmland Trust
- Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture
- Jamison Watts, Executive Director, Marin Agricultural Land Trust
- Loren Poncia, Owner and Producer, Stemple Creek Ranch
These panelists spoke at the 2018 Open Space Conference - Conservation in a Time of Change - on May 10, 2018 at the Craneway Pavilion in Richmond, CA. More info on the website: http://openspacecouncil.org/community-events/conference/
Mr. Sebastian Belle - Problems, Stumbling Blocks and Solutions for U.S. Aquac...John Blue
Problems, Stumbling Blocks and Solutions for U.S. Aquaculture - Mr. Sebastian Belle, Executive Director, Maine Aquaculture Association, from the 2013 NIAA Merging Values and Technology conference, April 15-17, 2013, Louisville, KY, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2013-niaa-merging-values-and-technology
Global challenges to food security and poverty alleviationAlain Vidal
Conference given at University Paris-Saclay / AgroParisTech on 19 November 2018 as part of Master CLUES (Sequence "Everyone Eating Well within Environmental Limits)
food waste has been one of the least discussed topics yet so devastating on the environment and human life as global warming and pollution
this ppt discusses the food waste valuation on the global and national context and some of the ways to keep it at bay!
How Regenerative Agriculture Can Save Your Bacon! John Roulac
Presented at the GoOrganic! Seminar in Kentucky, this presentation includes slides on hemp production and invaluable information on regenerative agriculture.
Enhancing Global Food Resources: CGIAR Strategy and its future Portfolio of P...CGIAR
Presented to the Second International Forum on Global Food Resources, 5-6 October 2016, Hokkaido University.
By Peter Gardiner, CGIAR System Management Office, France
Food (agriculture) production and distribution is estimated to cause approximately 25% of global warming (UN), which is causing drought in many areas. Agriculture uses 80% of the ground and surface water, increasing the water shortage. AgLantis is creating an urban farm right in the middle of heavy industry and will use hydroponic greenhouse production which yields as much as 40 times the produce using 10% of the water. The farm is on unused public buffer land, uses recycled agricultural grade water and is an innovate, replicable solution that dramatically decreases the carbon and water footprint of food production and distribution. Using recycled water high in nitrogen and phosphorus also eliminates the need for fossil fuel based fertilizers. The UN estimates 40% of agriculture is lost from farm-to-mouth. Growing in urban centers dramatically decreases that loss, much of which is due to long distane transportation.
Dr. Marty D. Matlock - Impacts of GMO Products on Food Security and TradeJohn Blue
Impacts of GMO Products on Food Security and Trade - Marty D. Matlock, PhD PE BCEE, Executive Director, Office for Sustainability, Area Director, Center for Agricultural and Rural Sustainability, Professor, Biological and Agricultural Engineering, University of Arkansas, from the 2014 NIAA Annual Conference titled 'The Precautionary Principle: How Agriculture Will Thrive', March 31 - April 2, 2014, Omaha, NE, USA.
More presentations at http://www.trufflemedia.com/agmedia/conference/2014_niaa_how_animal_agriculture_will_thrive
Climate-smart, sustainable and nutritious food for allCGIAR
How can public agricultural research engage with agri-business to tackle sustainability challenges?
Presented by Alain Vidal, Director of Strategic Partnerships, CGIAR System Organization, at the World Business Council For Sustainable Development (WBCSD) Climate-Smart Agriculture Strategy Meeting, Montreux, Switzerland on 29 March, 2017.
Transforming Agri-food Systems to Achieve Healthy Diets for AllCGIAR
Challenges: Why Agri-Food Systems Need to Be Transformed
Opportunities: What Science Can Offer to Address these Challenges
The CGIAR partnership: Our Contribution to achieving the UN’s Sustainable Development Targets
Forget everything you think you know about food. While it is popular nowadays to demonize modern agriculture and promote a vision for farming and food production that revolves around small farms and artisanal methods, companies such as Monsanto are using modern technology to improve agriculture in ways that provide benefits to farmers, consumers and society as a whole. Contrary to popular myths, this is not (all) about biotechnology!
Global challenges to food security and poverty alleviation 2020-21Alain Vidal
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Based on The Economics of Kindness,
by Guy Dauncey
300 years ago, the Enlightenment generated an inspiring vision of scientific, technological and economic progress. What was once global ‘progress’, however, has become a climate, ecological, economic and pandemic emergency.
We need new inspiration. When we emerge from the pandemic we can’t afford to go back to business-as-usual. We need to build ourselves a new ecological civilization in which we live, work and play in harmony with Nature, with respect for all beings, in an economy based on the economics of kindness.
The video from my presentation during EarthFest April 2020.
https://youtu.be/ZS6n-pzanpE
A New Ecological Civilization based on The Economics of KindnessGuy Dauncey
300 years ago, the Enlightenment generated an inspiring vision of scientific, technological and economic progress. What was once global ‘progress’, however, has become a climate, ecological, economic and pandemic emergency.
We need new inspiration. When we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic we can’t afford to go back to business-as-usual. We need to build ourselves a new ecological civilization in which we live, work and play in harmony with Nature, with respect for all beings, in an economy based on the economics of kindness.
The Climate Emergency: Art, Agency and ActionGuy Dauncey
My presentation to the Ladysmith Waterfront Gallery at the opening of their special climate exhibition, January 2020.
A powerful set of slides that use art to deliver three key messages:
(1) the climate crisis is very real,
(2) the solutions already exist,
(3) alongside the immediate threats, a positive vision of a better future is needed to motivate people to change.
100% Renewable Energy for BC: The Psycho-Politics of SuccessGuy Dauncey
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Journey to the Future: An Economy in Harmony with NatureGuy Dauncey
Our political and business leaders tell us that economic growth is the answer to everything, increasing GDP. From Nature’s perspective, however, GDP stands for Gross Depletion of the Planet.
How can we build a new cooperative economy that will enable us to meet our human needs, while restoring ecological integrity, and ensuring that Earth’s eight million other species are able to meet their needs too?
Guy Dauncey’s latest book Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible offers a compelling vision of a green future where a new cooperative economy is being put in place.
Presented at the SPEC Elders Circle, Vancouver, May 16, 2017.
Journey to the Future: An Economy in Harmony with NatureGuy Dauncey
Our political and business leaders tell us that economic growth is the answer to everything, increasing GDP. From Nature’s perspective, however, GDP stands for Gross Depletion of the Planet.
How can we build a new cooperative economy that will enable us to meet our human needs, while restoring ecological integrity, and ensuring that Earth’s eight million other species are able to meet their needs too?
Guy Dauncey’s new book Journey to the Future: A Better World is Possible offers a compelling vision of a green future where a new cooperative economy is being put in place.
Presented to the SPEC Elders Circle, Vancouver, May 16, 2017.
The Economics of Kindness: The End of Capitalism and the Birth of a New Cooperative Economy.
Today’s economy has become for many a kindness-free zone, in which most of the benefits go to the rich, while others suffer, and nature is assaulted.
Capitalism is based on the competitive pursuit of self- interest, but a new economy is emerging to replace it, based on cooperation and kindness. It is being built in cities and on farms, in new kinds of business and banking, and in new approaches to work.
Guy Dauncey is a futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. His work has been enthusiastically received by environmental activists, politicians, scientists and community planners, including prominent Canadians such as David Suzuki and Elizabeth May. He is the author of Journey to the Future and The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming.
The Economics of Kindness: The Birth of a New Cooperative Economy.
Here is the link for Part 2: https://www.slideshare.net/GuyDauncey/the-economics-of-kindness-part-2
Today’s economy has become for many a kindness-free zone, in which most of the benefits go to the rich, while others suffer, and nature is assaulted.
Capitalism is based on the competitive pursuit of self- interest, but a new economy is emerging to replace it, based on cooperation and kindness. It is being built in cities and on farms, in new kinds of business and banking, and in new approaches to work.
Guy Dauncey is a futurist who works to develop a positive vision of a sustainable future, and to translate that vision into action. His work has been enthusiastically received by environmental activists, politicians, scientists and community planners, including prominent Canadians such as David Suzuki and Elizabeth May. He is the author of Journey to the Future and The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming.
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My presentation to the Symposium on Climate and the Economy, organized by the Cowichan Estuary and Conservation Association
- Guy Dauncey
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Which of these 25 forces are responsibile for the mess we are in? And how do we change these key components of the economy, locally and globally so that they guide us to the economy we need for a One Planet Region?
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“What would it take to build a truly resilient local food system?"
1. What Would it Take
to Build
a Truly Resilient
Local Food System?
Guy Dauncey
June 23rd 2020
2. June 3rd, 2020
Humanity will be “finished” if we fail to drastically
change our food systems in response to the
coronavirus pandemic and the climate crisis.
12. Farm villages
Regional Growers’
Cooperatives
Limiting the control of
retail supermarkets
5,000 Farm Rangers
for Covid-19 recovery
Community Food Hubs
Regenerative organic farming
Doubling BC food production
Climate recovery
13. Farm villages
Regional Growers’
Cooperatives
Limiting the control of
retail supermarkets
5,000 Farm Rangers
for Covid-19 recovery
Community Food Hubs
Regenerative organic farming
Soil restoration
Doubling BC food production
Climate recovery
14. Farm villages
Regional Growers’
Cooperatives
Limiting the control of
retail supermarkets
5,000 Farm Rangers
for Covid-19 recovery
Community Food Hubs
Regenerative organic farming
Soil restoration
Doubling BC food production
Biodiversity recovery
Climate recovery
15. Farm villages
Regional Growers’
Cooperatives
Limiting the control of
retail supermarkets
5,000 Farm Rangers
for Covid-19 recovery
Community Food Hubs
Regenerative organic farming
Soil restoration
Doubling BC food production
Biodiversity recovery
Strong farm incomes
Climate recovery
18. • 8-acre bio-intensive organic vegetable market garden
• Generous capital investment from a Quebec billionaire
• $100,000 crop value per acre per year
• Profit margin 40% after costs = $40,000 per acre
19. Jean-Martin Fortier with his 12 workers at La Ferme
1.5 workers per acre
Land + capital + organic farming skill + business skill
20. A profitable organic farming business model exists.
We need to ramp it up ten-fold.
23. • 1,000 square meters (1/4 acre)
• Organic, bio-intensive, permaculture, regenerative
• No machinery except hand tools
• $84,000 dollars gross sales per year (CAN)
• Take-home profit after expenses $29,000/year
• 43 hours of work per week
• 4 weeks of vacation per year
• Carbon sequestration 6 x greater than a forest
38. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
39. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
40. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
4. Access to Farm Land
41. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
4. Access to Farm Land
5. A Fair Trade Code of Conduct for Retailers
42. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
4. Access to Farm Land
5. A Fair Trade Code of Conduct for Retailers
6. Community Food Security
43. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
4. Access to Farm Land
5. A Fair Trade Code of Conduct for Retailers
6. Community Food Security
7. Pandemic Food Supply Planning
64. Ocean Photography/VEER
Capitalism is not an economic system.
It is a cultural system
based on self-interested values
expressed in the economy
through the use of capital.
71. North American Context
Since 1990, the giant corporations that supply farm inputs
and services have left farmers with just 5% of farm
revenues, causing farm debt to nearly double to $106
billion since 2000.
Source: Jon Steinman, Grocery Story, 2019
72. North American Context
Between 1985 and 2016, transnational agri-businesses
were the primary recipients of US farm revenues,
capturing 98% of total farm revenues.
Source: Jon Steinman, Grocery Story, 2019
73. North American Context
2018 saw the lowest realized net farm income for
Canadian farmers in 12 years, a 40% decrease since 2017.
Source: Jon Steinman, Grocery Story, 2019
74. North American Context
The supermarkets’ mark-up on food rose
from 18% between 1950 & 1980 to 67% in 2018.
In 2005 Safeway took $2.5 billion in vendor allowances,
with vendors paying up to $30,000 per product.
Source: Jon Steinman, Grocery Story, 2019
79. British Columbia Context
Survey Question #1
BC has 2.59 million hectares of farmland.
What % is growing vegetables?
A: 15.3%
B: 8.9%
C: 2.4%
D: 0.25%
80. British Columbia Context
BC has 2.59 million hectares of farmland
• 57% pasture 1.43 million hectares
• 13.5% growing hay 348,000 hectares
• 7.5% growing field crops (barley, wheat etc) 195,000 hectares
• 1% growing fruits, berries and nuts 25,000 hectares
• 0.25% growing vegetables 6,478 hectares
2016 Census of Agriculture
53 times more land is growing hay than is growing vegetables
81. British Columbia Context
17,500 farms.
26,000 farm operators, 44,500 employees
5% (900 farms) are organic or in transition
1.4% (249 farms) are using Community Supported Agriculture
2016 Census of Agriculture
83. Alberni Valley Regional District
• 7,702 hectares in the ALR
• 3,171 hectares actively farmed (41%)
• 4,531 hectares lying idle (59%)
• 90% is livestock production or feed for livestock.
• 3% is vegetables, berries, grapes and horticultural
food crops.
• The region imports 89-95% of its food.
Source: Alberni Valley Agricultural Plan, 2010
84. Alberni Valley Regional District
• Average gross farm receipts: $61,797 per farm
• Farmer keeps 8 cents of every $1 of produce sold
• $4,606 per farm to cover all overhead costs
Average age of farm operators in 2010: 54 years old
Average age of farm operators in 2020 …
85. BC’s food chain is hugely dependent on imports
On Vancouver Island, Powell River, Haida Gwaii, Prince Rupert
and Kitimat 95% of all food is imported by truck or ferry.
Just-in-time food supply chain management means that these
communities have only 2-3 days food supply.
86. Food Secure Canada, May 14, 2020
“It is critical that decisions made now – when system
change is finally understood as not only possible, but
necessary – lay the foundations for resilient and
equitable food futures, notably in the context of
climate change and the ongoing collapse of
biodiversity.”
87. COVID-19 is still spreading,
raising concerns about BC’s food supply
if it spreads among poorly paid, poorly treated
migrant farmworkers.
89. BC has the land, and willing young farmers. So what’s the problem?
• Cost of land
• Lack of farmland housing
• Lack of skilled labour
• Lack of capital to develop farm fixtures and equipment
• Lack of infrastructure: shared warehouses, coolers, storage
• Lack of profit: hard to compete with industrially produced food.
92. The Five Principles of the Economics of Kindness
1. Be Kind to Nature
2. Be Kind to People
3. Build a Cooperative Market Economy
4. Build a Democratically Strong Government
5. Suppress Domination
96. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
2. A Ten-Year Transition to Regenerative
Organic Farming
3. A Cooperative Food Economy
4. Access to Farm Land
5. A Fair Trade Code of Conduct for Retailers
6. Community Food Security
7. Pandemic Food Supply Planning
98. Seven Core Solutions
1. A Ten-Year Transition Out of Capitalism
A planned legislated transition to a Purpose-Based
Charter for every business operating in BC, requiring
that it operate for the benefit of all stakeholders,
including Nature, workers, communities, customers
and suppliers, as well as for profit.
Requires clear political leadership and support
109. Ten-Year Transition #1.
BC Ministry of Agriculture
• Establish a Food Resilience and Sustainability Task
Force
• Develop an overarching regenerative food policy
• Enact a Food Resilience and Sustainability Act with
legally binding targets for regenerative farming, local
food production, supply chain resilience, farm wages,
retail sector partnerships, public health.
111. Ten-Year Transition #3
A Tax on Pesticides
Phase in a tax on chemical pesticides, herbicides,
fungicides and fertilizers.
Use 100% of the income to support growers in the
transition to organic regenerative farming.
114. Ten-Year Transition #6
Ecological Land Value Taxation
Phase in income and property tax reductions for
regenerative methods of farming known to
increase soil carbon storage and biodiversity.
115. Ten-Year Transition #7
Food Procurement Policies
• Local food procurement policies for universities, schools,
hospitals, correctional facilities, seniors care homes.
• Restore kitchens and chefs.
• Require contracts to apply sustainable dietary guidelines.
116. Ten-Year Transition #8
Regenerative Farming
Education & Research
Expand Agriculture Extension
Services and horticultural
training programs, especially
• Bio-intensive
• Organic
• Agro-ecological
• Permacultural
• Regenerative
117. Ten-Year Transition #9
Meat and Dairy
Explore the best ways to encourage a reduction in
the consumption of meat and dairy to tackle the
climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis.
118. Ten-Year Transition #10
Regional Growers’ Cooperatives
and Community Food Hubs
Provide 3-year funding for people to develop
Regional Cooperatives and Food Hubs all around BC.
121. Finland
The world’s most cooperative economy
• 5,500 cooperatives
• 84% of adult Finns are members of at least one coop.
• 17% of Finns work for a coop.
• Finnish agricultural cooperatives have a market share of 97%
in milk, 80% in meat.
• Consumer cooperatives supply 45% of people’s daily goods.
• 50% of Finns are members of the cooperatively-owned
S Group, which includes 650 restaurants, 503 grocery stores,
432 supermarkets, and a massive grocery logistics center.
126. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Farmer
Farmer Farmer Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Farmer
Some 2,400 farms
Agricultural Land Reserve: 69,000 hectares
47% used for farming. 51% not used for farming
25,000 hectares of farmed land (87% forest and pasture)
129. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
Shared Supply
Management
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
130. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
131. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared
marketing
advertising
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
CSA
Distribution
Help
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
132. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared
marketing
advertising
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
CSA
Distribution
Help
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
Access to Capital
Community Investors
133. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared
marketing
advertising
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
CSA
Distribution
Help
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Shared
Research and
Development
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
Access to Capital
Community Investors
134. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared
marketing
advertising
Cooperative Grocery Stores
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
CSA
Distribution
Help
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Shared
Research and
Development
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
Access to Capital
Community Investors
135. The North Okanagan
Regional Growers’ Cooperative
Shared
marketing
advertising
Cooperative Grocery Stores
Shared Distribution
Central Depot
CSA
Distribution
Help
Shared Seeds
Security
Shared Supply
Management
Shared
Research and
Development
Farming Skills
Business Skills Mentors
Shared
Transportation
Shared
Processing
Shared
Storage
Access to Capital
Community Investors
Shared Lobbying
143. In Nova Scotia
Provincial equity tax credits focused on community benefit have
inspired people to invest $100 million in 76 projects through the
Community Economic Development Investment Fund, including
substantial investments in food, and a diverse range of co-
operative and social enterprises.
144. In Portland Oregon
The bioregional group EcoTrust invested $25 million to buy two
old industrial buildings on Salmon Street, one as a campus hub
for innovation in bioregional food and farm systems, the other
connecting farmers to their markets by providing 170 food
businesses with warehousing, cold storage and cargo-bike
delivery into Portland’s diverse food ecosystem.
145. In Quebec
Chantier de l’Economie Sociale supports 11,200 social economy
enterprises that employ 220,000 people, generate $48 billion a
year and involve 90,000 people as voluntary board members.
153. The Proposal
That the ALR rules are changed, allowing
that on any farm of more than 20 hectares,
one hectare can be rezoned to allow a limited
amount of clustered housing for farm workers.
154. A Community Farmland Zone
Would allow the development of clustered farm worker
housing, with strict controls to ensure that the land is farmed,
and never bought for conventional real estate purposes:
1. A Community Farmland Zone Bylaw
2. A Covenant registered with the land
3. Strata Farm Fees that do not apply if the land is farmed
4. Registration of a Housing Agreement, restricting residential
units to farmers and their families.
157. Farm Housing Cluster
Cost of land: $100,000?
Shared by 5 families =
$20,000 each
Cost of small starter
self-built house: $150,000
Total: $170,000
$34,000 down-payment
Mortgage: $620 a month
158. Leased
or
purchased
Farm Housing Cluster
Cost of land: $100,000?
Shared by 5 families =
$20,000 each
Cost of small starter
self-built house: $150,000
Total: $170,000
$34,000 down-payment
Mortgage: $620 a month
159. Four levels of protection
to ensure that the zone is not abused:
1. Community Farm Zone Bylaw
2. Covenant attached to the land
3. Strata Council Farm Fees
4. Registered Housing Agreement
Farm Housing Cluster
Cost of land: $100,000?
Shared by 5 families =
$20,000 each
Cost of small starter
self-built house: $150,000
Total: $170,000
$34,000 down-payment
Mortgage: $620 a month
161. 4,531 hectares
= 11,000 vacant acres
Assume 50% can be cultivated
Bio-intensive organic
1.5 farm jobs per acre
= 8,000 potential farm jobs
162. Land Ownership
• Private rental from the
farm owner
• Strata-title, owned by
the farm workers
• Community Land Trust
owns the land, farm
workers own their homes
165. Survey Question #2
Would you like to live and work in a Farm Village?
A. Yes, absolutely.
B. Yes, if it was allowed
C. Yes, but it’ll never happen
D. No
168. 1. Jimmy Pattison Group: 110 stores Save-On
Foods/Quality Foods/Nature’s Fare
2. Sobeys: Safeway, 29 Thrifty Foods, IGA FreshCo
3. Walmart: 44 stores
4. Costco: 10 stores
5. Loblaws: Real Canadian Superstore, SuperValu
BC’s Retail Oligopoly
169. Retail Oligopoly
President Roosevelt, 1938:
“If you believe with me in private
initiative, you must acknowledge the
right of well-managed small business
to expect to make reasonable profits.
You must admit that the destruction
of this opportunity follows
concentration of control of any given
industry into a small number of
dominating corporations.”
170. A Retail Code of Conduct
to prevent monopoly abuse
• Require % of fresh produce to be local
• No slotting fees, “perfect food” standards, delayed payments,
promotional allowances, long-term contracts, retroactive penalties,
price competition penalties or other strategies used to maintain
power over suppliers.
• Allow food-makers to set the minimum price their products are
sold at in stores. (US 1937 Miller-Tydings Act)
• Guarantee small grocery stores access to same products at same
prices as large chains (US 1936 Robinson-Patman Act)
“Market power at all levels of the food system has
dealt significant harm to the women, men and families
producing and harvesting our food.” - Jon Steinman
174. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
175. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
Political
Pressure
176. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
177. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
178. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Root
Cellar, Juice Press,
Tools Library
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
179. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Root
Cellar, Juice Press,
Tools Library
Community
Allotments
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
180. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Root
Cellar, Juice Press,
Tools Library
Community Food
Festivals
Seedy Saturdays
Community
Allotments
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
181. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Root
Cellar, Juice Press,
Tools Library
Transform Food
Banks into
Community Food
Learning Centres
Community Food
Festivals
Seedy Saturdays
Community
Allotments
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
182. Welfare, work and income policies
to address food poverty and insecurity
Ecology 101 and
farmland education
in all schools K-12
Dig for Victory
campaign to grow
food in front & back
yards
Community Root
Cellar, Juice Press,
Tools Library
Transform Food
Banks into
Community Food
Learning Centres
Community Food
Festivals
Seedy Saturdays
Community
Allotments
Community Food
Social Enterprises
Community Food Hub
Wide Membership
190. June 2020
Includes a proposal to hire
5,000 Farm Rangers
to work on BC farms this summer
191. Urgent measures to assist people on lower incomes who
can’t afford to stockpile or pay higher prices.
Prepare for Supply Chain Disruptions
192. Expand local BC food production
• All of the above
• Pay farmers $2,000/acre to grow food (not hay) on
vacant farmland
• Raise the annual revenue requirement for tax reduction
on classified farmland between 2-10 acres from $2,500 to
$10,000.
194. Radical Action with Migrants (RAMA)
A grassroots migrant justice group that strives to support
5,000 Latin American and Caribbean temporary migrant
farmworkers in the Okanagan Valley.
195. Explore solutions to likely conflicts with the new
US-Canada-Mexico Agreement. Free trade agreements make
no allowance for a pandemic, and accord no importance to
the resilience of local and regional food supply chains.
We cannot sacrifice human lives
and the stability of our society
on the altar of shareholder-value-maximizing free trade.
196. How Can We Do It?
1. Key groups meet together
2. Decide on the top priorities
3. Turn them into a Manifesto
4. Get 100,000 people to sign on
5. Besiege every politician in BC
197. How Can We Do It?
The 2020s is the most crucial decade
in the history of our civilization
201. Survey Question #3
Do you think that taken together, these ideas could build a truly
resilient local food system?
A. Yes, they could
B. Maybe, if there was enough support
C. No, they are politically impossible