Food Secure Communities in BC: Resource Guide for Local Governments
The BC Provincial Health Services Authority has just released this new guide, designed to help local governments create more food secure communities. According to the guide, improving food security involves integrating health, economic, ecological, and social factors. The guide includes such topics as community gardens, farmers' markets, making food access easy through neighbourhood planning, supporting local food production, and creating community capacity for building food security as well as details on how communities benefit and how specifically local governments can take action.