Food has always played a significant role in human identity and society and yet access to enough healthy and culturally appropriate food stands out as a major inequity among rural, remote, and Indigenous communities. In 2021, Ecotrust Canada began planting the seeds to collaboratively address food security and food sovereignty for Prince Rupert and our neighbours in the region. This community focused social endeavour is seeking to build upon the groundswell of food security work that local organizations have already undertaken to realize lasting solutions to local food systems challenges on the traditional territories of the Coast Ts’msyen Peoples. Why Ecotrust Canada The Food Systems Initiative is the culmination of three years of research, pilot projects, and community engagements facilitated ...
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