Food Strategy Background
In 2008, the Board of Health approved the development of a Toronto Food Strategy to enable the City’s leadership toward a healthier and more sustainable food system. Our vision is of a food system that nourishes people and the environment, protects against climate change, promotes social justice, creates local and diverse economic development and builds community.
The Food Strategy team is a small unit within the Strategic Support Directorate focused on achieving the strategic priorities outlined in the 2010 Report, Cultivating Food Connections: Toward a Healthy and Sustainable Food System for Toronto. In that plan, TPH identified six themes:
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Support food friendly neighbourhoods
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Make food a centerpiece of Toronto’s new green economy
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Eliminate hunger in Toronto
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Connect city and countryside through food
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Empower residents with food skills and information
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Urge federal and provincial governments to establish health-focused food policies
Proposal for Development of a Toronto Food Strategy
Toronto Food Strategy: Cultivating Food Connections
Toronto Food Strategy: Cultivating Food Connections
Toronto Food Strategy: 2011 Update
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food
Toronto Food Strategy: 2012 Update
Toronto Food Strategy: 2013 Update
Public Health Agency of Canada Funding for Toronto Public Health Food Strategy Initiatives