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Landscape factors of sustainable food innovation:
The case of Toronto and Local Food Plus
Presented by: Wayne Roberts, FLEdGE Research, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityLori Stahlbrand, FLEdGE Research, Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Toronto
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Part 1: Local Food Plus and “infrastructure of the middle”
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• Employ sustainable production systems
• Provide healthy and humane care of livestock
• Provide safe and fair working conditions
• Protect and enhance wildlife and biodiversity
• Reduce energy consumption and greenhouse gases
Local Food Plus Certification
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The LFP Certification Seal
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Institutional Procurement Launched in 2006 at the
University of Toronto, St. George campus
U of T became the first Canadian university to make a contractual commitment to purchase sustainable and local food as a percentage of cost of food purchased for specific residence cafeterias
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Anchor institutions
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The multifunctionality of food Without a multifunctional perspective, university food has been an “ancillary service”.
Multifunctionality recognizes that food (not just agriculture) can address health, economic, environmental, social, cultural and reputational goals of the university.
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“Infrastructure of the middle”: An alternative to “agri-chains” for
territorialized food systems An under-appreciation of the distances and obstacles inherent
in “farm to table” “field to fork” or “farm to school” The hard and soft infrastructure that is big enough to supply
large orders from institutions, but not so big as to be locked into the global industrial food system. This includes the aggregators, processors, distributors, warehouses and roads, but also the individual champions, civil society actors and institutional habits that create a new “nexus of practice” for sustainable local food
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“Infrastructure of the middle”
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Sept 2016: U of T takes over its own foodservice
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Conclusion
The missing link in food chains that can support a scaling up and out of local and sustainable food systems is not the ability of farmers to produce the food, but rather the weakness of the connective tissue – processors, distributors, aggregators, connectors, advocates, marketers and caterers – to manage the sustainability transition. This connective tissue can be collectively referred to as “infrastructure of the middle”.
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“Infrastructure of the middle” changes the “landscape”
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Part 2: Toronto
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A city of ravines
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Social Gospel
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A city of villages
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Social Liberalism
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Red Toryism
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Proposition, not opposition
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Social unionism
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Jane’s Walks
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Health promotion
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Creative economy
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Multiculturalism
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Green infrastructure
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A territorial food system
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Landscape factors of sustainable food innovation:
The case of Toronto and Local Food Plus
Presented by: Wayne Roberts, FLEdGE Research, Wilfrid Laurier UniversityLori Stahlbrand, FLEdGE Research, Wilfrid Laurier University/University of Toronto