Mar 8, 2021
Contributors:
Co-Producers & Hosts: Laine Young & Amanda Di Battista
Sound Design &
Editing: Laine Young & Amanda Di Battista
Research Assistant: Adedotun Babajide
Guests
Alexandra Rodriguez
Erick Fay
Support &
Funding
Wilfrid Laurier University
The Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food
Systems
Balsillie School for International
Affairs
CIGI
Music Credits
Keenan Reimer-Watts
Resources
Moving Beyond Acknowledgments- LSPIRG
Whose Land
Laurier Centre for Sustainable Food
Systems
FAO City Region Food System Program: Quito,
Ecuador
RUAF Global Partnership
Milan Urban Food Policy Pact
Intersectionality Matters Podcast
Growing Food in the City: Urban Agriculture in
Quito, Ecuador, Through a Feminist Lens, paper by Laine
Young
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Glossary of Terms
City Region Food System
“A City Region Food Systems (CRFS) approach aims to foster the development of resilient and sustainable food systems within urban centres, peri-urban and rural areas surrounding cities by strengthening rural-urban linkages.”
Food
Policy
Food policies are developed by
governments at different scales to guide food-related decisions and
actions. They inform and govern public, private, and non-profit
sector actions related to improving food-related outcomes and can
create opportunities for stakeholders to work together across
sectors.
Food
Security
Food security is the ability to access
safe, nutritious, culturally appropriate, and sufficient food
all year round. A person or
community is food insecure when people cannot afford or have
limited or no access to the food they need to nourish their bodies.
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization
state that “food insecurity can
affect diet quality in different ways, potentially leading to
undernutrition as well as. . .
obesity.”
Food Sovereignty
"Food Sovereignty is the right of peoples to
healthy and culturally appropriate food produced through
ecologically sound and sustainable methods, and their right to
define their own food and agriculture systems."
Food
Waste
Waste that is created through food
production or food that is wasted because it is not
eaten. Unnecessary food
waste can be generated at all points along the food
chain, including during
production and distribution or at the household
level.
https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/managing-reducing-waste/food-loss-waste.html
Informal Economy of
Food
Economies of food that emphasize “personal
relationships, trust, and non-market values, which are inherently
challenging to define and often impossible to quantify.” Informal
economies of food are “spaces for non-traditional forms of
innovation as well as opportunities for deep insights into social
relationships, cultural meanings, and environmental
values . . . and challenge us to think of economic systems
in far more complex ways than mainstream economic theory would
propose.”
Intersectionality
Intersectionality considers how
different power relations,
such as race, gender, sexuality, and class, among other
things, impact an individual’s lived
experience. The Merrium-Webster dictionary
defines intersectionality as, “the complex, cumulative way in which
the effects of multiple forms of discrimination (such as racism,
sexism, and classism) combine, overlap, or intersect especially in
the experiences of marginalized individuals or
groups.” Kimberlé W.
Crenshaw, an American legal
scholar and civil rights activist, coined the term in
1989 to describe Black
women’s experience of the intersection of sexism and
racism.
Supply
Chain
All of the components of a
system—including organizations, producers, suppliers, people,
resources, activities, information, and infrastructures—that get a
product to a consumer.
Sustainable Food
System
Food systems that are “socially just,
support local economies; are ecologically regenerative, and foster
citizen engagement.”
Sustainable Healthy Diets
“Sustainable Healthy Diets are dietary
patterns that promote all dimensions of individuals’
health and wellbeing; have low environmental pressure and
impact; are accessible, affordable, safe and equitable; and are
culturally acceptable.”
Territorial Food
Strategy/Policy
A set of formally agreed upon policies
or strategies that guide programs and development related to food
in a city region food system. In Quito, the development of a
Territorial Food Strategy and Policy has been informed by a
multi-stakeholder consultation process that brought together
representatives from government, international and civil society
organizations, research institutions, and the private sector to
find a common vision, goals, and outcomes for the strategy and to
identify key food system indicators, activities, and
timelines.
Urban
A town or city and surrounding areas
where more than 1000 people live and population density is more than 400
people per square kilometre. The urban is often described in
contrast to the rural and includes highly developed landscape and
infrastructure, like public transit.
Urban
Agriculture
Agriculture that takes place in cities,
towns, or other urban areas. Urban agriculture can include
community gardens, balcony or backyard gardens, raising chickens or
other livestock, urban food gathering, etc.
Discussion Questions