[getsmart-l] Fw: [Discover Local Food] Food for Talk presents: "Locally Grown Food & Near-urban Agriculture" March 28

[John O'Gorman]

This man can give you the list of reasons why continuing to sprawl over the "White Zone" is complete insanity; However, the other side of the coin is to develop a system so that farmers have access to adequate income.
Regards,
John
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Food for Talk presents: "Locally Grown Food & Near-urban Agriculture"

York University Events

Mar 28, 2008, 2-4pm

Elbert van Donkersgoed will discuss "Locally Grown Food & Near-urban Agriculture: Challenges & Opportunities", on Friday, March 28, from 2 to 4 pm, in room 141 HNES Bldg.

Elbert van Donkersgoed is the executive director for the Greater Toronto Area Agricultural Action Committee with a mandate to make local food a corner stone of a viable and sustainable GTA farm sector for generations to come. The GTA Agricultural Action Committee is a distinctive partnership involving the four GTA Federations of Agriculture and the Regional Municipalities of Halton, Peel, York and Durham, plus the City of Toronto, Ministry of Municipal Affairs & Housing, Ministry of Agriculture, Food & Rural Affairs, Agriculture & Agri-Food Canada, Toronto Food Policy Council and the food sector. 

van Donkersgoed was the strategic policy adviser of the Christian Farmers Federation of Ontario and its 4,300 member family farm entrepreneurs for 35 years. During that period he helped found the Ontario Farm Environmental Coalition and the Ontario Rural Council. He is a member of a wide range of working groups such as Ontario Farmland Trust, Toronto Food Policy Council and the Business Advisory Network of the Environmental Commissioner of Ontario. For eight years he wrote a weekly farm, food and countryside commentary, Corner Post, heard on Southwestern Ontario radio stations and widely distributed on the Internet. In March of 1986, he received an honourary life membership in the Ontario Institute of Agrologists "in recognition of leadership, contribution and Christian commitment to agriculture and of his service to his community". 


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      Location:
     141 HNES Bldg.
     
      Sponsor:
     Faculty of Environmental Studies
     
      Posted by:
     FES
     
      Web Site
     http://www.yorku.ca/fes/index.asp
     

 

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