Food Security - Dundurn

Food Security

From Excess to Enough

Published October 2019

Description

Canadians are failing to balance reasonable food consumption with sufficient and sustainable production.

The modern agricultural system is producing more and more food. Too much food. The cost is enormous: excess nutrients are contaminating the air and water; soil is being depleted; species loss is plunging us toward the sixth extinction; and farmers, racking up debt, are increasingly vulnerable to economic and climatic shifts.

At the same time, people are consuming too much food. Two-thirds of health-care costs in Canada can be attributed to chronic diseases associated with unhealthy eating. And then there is the waste — householders, food processors, distributors, wholesalers, and retailers collectively waste 40 percent of the food produced.

A radical rethink is required. We need to move from excess to enough.

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Contributors

Ralph C. Martin

Ralph C. Martin is a professor of plant agriculture at the University of Guelph, where he also served as the Loblaw Chair in Sustainable Food Production from 2011 to 2016. In 2001, he founded the Organic Agriculture Centre of Canada. Ralph lives in Guelph, Ontario.

Elizabeth May

Elizabeth May is a politician, environmental activist, lawyer, and author. May has been the Leader of the Green Party of Canada since 2006.

Book Details

Paperback
October 2019
5x8 in
224 pp
9781459744028
ePub
October 2019
-
160 pp
9781459744035
ePub
October 2019
-
160 pp
9781459744042