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Join us on January 21st for the final event in our Digital Convening Series: Supply Chain: Food Security During the Pandemic and Beyond. How has Canada’s food supply chain been affected by the pandemic? This panel will explore the issues of the supply chain and food security, how supply management enables stability, the importance of local food production and the vulnerabilities of a model that relies so disproportionately on trade. While the pandemic may have heightened our... collective awareness, how to ensure food security continues to be important each and every day is an issue that will not simply be solved with a vaccine. Join our expert panel for a discussion on the supply chain and food security in Canada. https://buff.ly/39AaIXR

Missed our event on food security during COVID-19? You can watch the full conversation on our website.

Systemic Racism Economic Injustice COVID-19 Our latest paper dives deep into these interconnected issues and offers three ways to address them.... https://buff.ly/2XTbz0v

Our latest paper details the link between systemic racism, economic injustice, and COVID-19, and makes the case for three promising policy approaches to resolve this multifaceted problem. Resolving the immediate problem of racial inequities in COVID-19 outcomes requires us to address the long-term, deeply entrenched issues of systemic racism in Canada particularly, racism against Black, Brown and Indigenous people. We need bold changes if we are truly interested in resolvin...g racial inequities. If not, racial inequities will reassert themselves in other ways and we will be no further ahead in terms of solving Canada’s true challenges. Read the full report on our website. https://buff.ly/3qzqLfh

How has Canada’s food supply chain been affected by the pandemic? This panel will explore the issues of the supply chain, how supply management enables stability, the importance of local food production and the vulnerabilities of a model that relies so disproportionately on trade. While the pandemic may have heightened our collective awareness, how to ensure food security continues to be important each and every day is an issue that will not simply be solved with a vaccine. Join our expert panel for a discussion on the supply chain and food security in Canada.

Meet the panelists for our upcoming event on January 21st. Supply Chain: Food Security During the Pandemic and Beyond will feature a discussion between Dr. Mike von Massow, Kirstin Beardsley, and David Wiens. The conversation will be moderated by Karl Bélanger from the Douglas-Coldwell Foundation. Mike von Massow is an Associate Professor in the Department of Food, Agricultural, and Resource Economics at the University of Guelph. He is also the Ontario Agricultural College Ch...air in Food System Leadership. His research focuses on understanding how people make food choices and the development of value chains to support those choices. Check out his FoodFocus blog and podcast for current discussions of issues and trends relative to food from farm to fork. David Wiens is a dairy farmer farming with his wife and two daughters in a small town called Grunthal, in Manitoba. In July 2011, David Wiens was elected to the Executive Committee of Dairy Farmers of Canada, where he continues to serve as Vice-President. David was elected to the Dairy Farmers of Manitoba (DFM) board of directors in the fall of 1995, and has served as the DFM Chair since December, 2006. Since 2000, David has sat on the Ste. Anne Co-op Oil board of directors. In 2009, he was appointed as a director on the Manitoba Cattle Enhancement Council. Kirstin Beardley is a seasoned professional of the non-profit world. She has devoted the last six years of her career to Food Banks Canada in progressive levels of responsibility. She is from Ottawa, Ontario but now calls Toronto home. During her time away from working towards a Canada where no one goes hungry, Kirstin enjoys spending time with her family. Join us on January 21st - register on our website. https://buff.ly/39z4Zl3

We know that there are racial health inequities for COVID-19. Our latest report details the link between systemic racism, economic injustice, and COVID-19, and makes the case for three promising policy approaches to resolve this multifaceted problem.