Glossary
100 Mile Diet
This is refers to an commitment to buy and eat food that has been grown, manufactured or produced entirely within a 100 mile (160 km) radius of the residence of the individual who will be consuming the food. Source - Wikipedia For more information go to: http://100milediet.org/
Bull’s Eye Diet
The Bull’s eye Diet focuses on local food, starting with yourself and your ability to produce as much food as possible. You then trade with neighbours; what you cannot get from them, you can buy from the local community, such as Farmer’s Markets; and the process moves outwards. The Bull’s eye Diet encourages you to grow your own food and requires you to buy all you can locally before purchasing outside your community or region. Source - http://www.cbc.ca/edmonton/features/livinggreen/MT/2008/06/from_100miles_to_the_bulls_eye_1.html
Community Garden
A community garden is a group of people who garden in individual plots and/or common areas. Community gardens are created for a variety of reasons. Primarily, community gardeners grow for food self reliance, for physical activity, and for social interaction.
Source: http://www.foodsecurityalberta.ca/
Community Kitchen?
A Community Kitchen is made up of small groups of people who get together on a regular basis to pool and share their knowledge, skills, energy and money to make nutritious meals for their families, often working within a budget. Kitchens usually make decisions by consensus where all members of the group take an active part in determining how the group will function.
Source: http://www.foodsecurityalberta.ca/
Community Shared Agriculture (CSA)
This is an approach to growing and purchasing food products where the farmer and consumer work cooperatively. In a CSA, the farmer grows food for a predetermined group of consumers. The consumer enters into an agreement of purchase with the grower prior to the start of the season. The farmer gains a guaranteed market; the consumer gains high quality, fresh food, as it becomes available. CSA farms usually offer weekly delivery or pick-up of vegetables.
Source - http://www.spcottawa.on.ca/ofsc/en/community_shared_agriculture.asp
Community Supported Agriculture
This is very similar to Community Shared Agriculture except the consumers do not work on the farm.
Good Food Box
The Good Food Box is an alternative food distribution system that provides a variety of top-quality, fresh, nutritious foods at an affordable price. Individual and/or families pay for and order food boxes ahead of time. Volunteer or paid workers purchase foods in bulk from producers and wholesalers and volunteers and staff pack the boxes. The boxes are then picked up at a central location or delivered to neighbourhood depots. Source: http://www.chep.org/gfb/index.html
Food Bank
A Food Bank is a central warehouse or clearinghouse, registered as a non-profit organization for the purpose of collecting, storing and distributing food. The food is distributed free of charge, directly or through front line agencies which may also provide meals to the hungry. Food Banks also coordinate advocacy, public education and employment programs as part of the effort to eliminate hunger.
Source: http://www.foodsecurityalberta.ca/
Food Security
Food security is widely described as the condition in which all people at all times can acquire safe, nutritionally adequate, and personally acceptable foods in a manner that maintains human dignity.
Food security is widely described as the condition in which all people at all times can acquire safe, nutritionally adequate, and personally acceptable foods in a manner that maintains human dignity.
Food Security Continuum
Food Security can be addressed on three different levels:
Stage 1: Short Term Relief - These actions provide immediate and temporary relief to hunger and food issues. These activities are often completed with little involvement from those experiencing food insecurity. (Examples: food banks, soup kitchens)
Stage 2: Capacity Building - These actions are often more costly in terms of time and manpower and require commitment from those experiencing food insecurity, but are steps to empowering those experiencing food insecurity. (Examples: community kitchens, community gardens)
Stage 3: Redesign - These actions are broader in scope and require a long-term commitment from representatives of the entire food system, including, in particular, those marginalized by the system. Often the most costly and time consuming, these actions focus on addressing problems thought to be underlying food insecurity (working “upstream” to create system change). (Examples: Food policy, social advocacy to address poverty.) Source – Laura Kalina, 2001
Food Sovereignty
Food sovereignty puts the right to sufficient, healthy and culturally appropriate food for all individuals, peoples and communities, including those who are hungry, under occupation, in conflict zones and marginalised, at the centre of food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries policies; and rejects the proposition that food is just another commodity or component for international agri-business.
The Six Pillars of Food Sovereignty Developed at Nyéléni 2007
1. Focuses on Food for People; 2. Values Food Providers; 3. Localises Food Systems; 4. Puts Control Locally; 5. Builds Knowledge and Skills; 6. Works with Nature
Food System
A food system comprises the interdependent and linked activities that result in the production and exchange of food. These include farming and community gardening; processing; storage; distribution and transportation; food access via grocery stores, restaurants, and street food, as well as nutrition programs such as school meals and food stamps; cooking and food preservation; and food recycling through gleaning, food banks, food pantries, and soup kitchens.
Source - http://www.worldhungeryear.org/
Permaculture
Permaculture is an approach to designing landscapes that works with nature rather than against nature. Permaculture seeks to create beautiful living systems that provide food (and other essentials) for people in sustainable ways. It combines age-old indigenous wisdom with new insights emerging from movements for sustainability around the world and is based on the following three ethical principles: Care of the earth ; Care of the people; Sharing the surplus.
Source - http://www.theurbanfarmer.ca/permaculture_essentials.html
SPIN Farming
SPIN stands for S-mall P-lot IN-tensive SPIN is a non-technical, easy-to-learn and inexpensive-to-implement farming system that makes it possible to earn significant income from land bases under an acre in size. Source: http://www.spinfarming.com/contact/
