In 2010, the Board of Health approved a Food Strategy for Toronto. The process began in 2008 when the Board of Health approved its development 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:
Proposal for Development of a Toronto Food Strategy – June 16, 2008
Toronto Food Strategy Update – Feb 16, 2010
Toronto Food Strategy: Cultivating Food Connections – June 1, 2010
Toronto Food Strategy: Cultivating Food Connections – June 14, 2010
Toronto Food Strategy: 2011 Update – May 11, 2011
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food – May 28, 2012
Toronto Food Strategy: 2012 Update – June 25, 2012